Future Directions of Capacity Building for Ecodesign Workshop
EDC will convene a meeting for leading international environmental researchers and practitioners at a major climate change conference in Denmark this coming June. The conference is a joint endeavour bringing together five conferences in the field: European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, The Greening of Industry Network, SCORE!, Nordic Life Cycle Association, and Euro Sustainability.
The Joint Actions on Climate Change Conference will consist of representatives of governments, industry, retailers, researchers as well as NGOs, consumer organisations and the financial sector. It will bring these stakeholders together with the aim of fostering a fruitful dialogue and bridging gaps in views and positions on how innovation and design can tackle the crisis of climate change. This conference will be a building block towards setting targets for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
The meeting proposed by EDC is titled “Future directions of capacity building for ecodesign”. This meeting will bring together researchers and practitioners working directly with industry in the delivery of innovation support, applied research or public funded consultancy to share knowledge and experience on current methods and models of ecodesign intervention. The objective of the workshop will be to map out current intervention models and practices, identify competency and policy gaps, identify areas of commonality, explore options for networking and knowledge transfer and suggest a common statement/platform for moving the agenda forward in Europe and in co-operation with international partners. The workshop is also open to design educators and any other stakeholders with an interest in mainstreaming ecodesign.
EDC will present a paper titled 'The creativity gap? – bridging creativity, design and sustainable innovation' at the Joint Actions on Climate Change Conference.
To learn more about the conference click here.
June 2009
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