SRA workshop series: Social and environmental impacts across contexts - bringing in global perspectives

Sustainability impacts of innovations will typically be highly dependent on existing and future policies. Significant differences also exist between countries or regions, depending on resources, income disparities, demographics, geography, and institutional structures. The focus of this workshop will be on exploring how estimation of impacts for research proposals can be more firmly grounded in local conditions, as well as considering how disruptions and systemic shifts can lead to diverging scenarios.

Register before 18 November - lu-se.zoom.us

Preliminary program outline and guidelines for content

8.30 Coffee and mingle

9.00 Welcome! Introduction to workshop, hosts, and program

Ronny Berndtsson, CMES/Water resources engineering

9.05 Coordinator role in EU H2020 project, planning and managing an international project

Sihem Jebari, Professor, National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry, Tunisia

9.20 Ways to include end-users and stakeholders in applications; examples from a successful H2020 project

Ronny Berndtsson, CMES/Water resources engineering

9.35 Research impact and how to try and include it in applications and projects

Kes McCormick, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE)

9.50 Experiences from evaluating applications

Karin Aggestam, CMES/Political Sciences

10.05 Coffee break

10.30 Break-out sessions

In the conference room 3rd floor, V:Konf1 and V:Konf2.

11.10-11.30 Reconvene

Representative summaries of break out sessions.

12.00 End of workshop

Target audience

Workshops will mainly target researchers, doctoral students, and research coordinators/administrators from the Strategic Research Areas (SRA's), but the workshops will be open to all staff within Lund University.

Goals

• To inspire and inform young researchers on important steps in proposal writings and how to create and show global impact in application (e.g. EU applications). 
• To inspire and inform young researchers on how to include or reach end users and stakeholders in application writing.
• To support the formation of collaboration and innovation oriented towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) within research proposals.
• To network between SRA's and strengthen sustainability knowledge, innovation capacity, and transdisciplinary potential.

The workshop is arranged in collaboration with the Strategic Research Areas MECW and EXODIAB.

MECW - cmes.lu.se
EXODIAB - exodiab.se

Doctoral course

In connection to this theme the doctoral course Sustainability impacts and Societal Relevance in Research Proposals will be arranged, open to all doctoral students. Register before September 30.

Information and how to register for the course Sustainability impacts and Societal Relevance in Research - sustainability.lu.se

Aim of the workshop series

As the climate and other planetary crises escalate, there is a need to develop the SRA’s to better meet the societal challenges and to find solutions to achieve a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable development worldwide. 

The aim of the workshops is to develop work processes of common interest, exchange experiences and strengthen sustainability collaboration between research areas, as well as to create a broader reflection on sustainability issues at Lund university and in society. The sustainable development goals can in this context function as a common language connecting academic activities with policy goals. 

Workshops will mainly target researchers, doctoral students and research coordinators/administrators from the Strategic Research Areas, but the workshops will be open to all staff within Lund University. 

Read more about the previous workshops at sustainability.lu.se