Sweden
Sustainable City Development Conference “Local implementation of the UN’s sustainable goals”
The UN’s new 17 global sustainability goals mean local challenges and Climate-KIC’s City partner Malmö lacks neither the will or initiative to achieve them. Climate-KIC is supporting the Malmö municipality in organising an international conference on how cities can work with global development and how they have made the UN’s goals their own on the road to becoming a sustainable city.
The programme for the conference has nine themes and will be introduced by inspiring keynote speakers. Through concrete experiences, examples and research, discussions and reflections, you can get ideas on how cities can work towards the global sustainability goals and make them their own. The conference is intended for those working in the public and private sectors, academia and civil society.
The Sustainable City Development Conference 2016 is part of the international SBE series of conferences focusing on a sustainable built environment. It will be a meeting point for researchers and practitioners as we believe that there is high potential to discuss and co-create new ideas and solutions. There will also be exhibitors on site with inspirational examples.
Call for Abstracts
We welcome abstracts from both researchers and practitioners in the themes listed below. The conference will provide an opportunity to present, discuss and reflect on the best practices as well as theoretical advances in the field of sustainable city development and the relationship between cities and universities. How do we collectively and strategically advance sustainable city development?
We invite contributions on case studies as well as contributions focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges. Abstracts should match one of the conference themes; authors are invited to specify their contribution to the building, city or citizen perspectives.
- Smart energy efficiency
- How green is green enough?
- Fairtrade and the SDGs
- BID – a successful way
- Urbanisation and resilient cities
- Our sustainable future
- Culture & sustainable cities
- Food for sustainable cities
- The fourth industrial revolution
A scientific committee will evaluate all incoming abstracts and abstracts accepted will be presented either in oral presentations or in the form of posters. The scientific committee will also invite selected authors of the accepted abstracts to submit full papers. A selection of these papers will be invited to be presented at the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference held in Hong Kong in June 2017.
Abstracts: 600 words, which provide information about best practice projects, a case studies or research projects plus a brief biography of each author (10 lines each). as pdf or Word files.
Submissions should be made electronically via e-mail:[email protected] between 1 May and 15 August 2016.
Sessions
- Abstract Sessions: 45 minute sessions with three presentations and a discussion.
- Poster Session: posters will be displayed throughout the conference at a central location.
Key dates
- 15 August – Deadline for abstract submissions
- 15 September – Outcome of review process and acceptance decisions
- 1 November – Deadline for submission of full papers
Scientific Committee
The scientific committee consists of the following researchers:
- Lena Neij, IIIEE Lund University (chair)
- Bengt Persson, Swedish Agricultural University
- Mauritz Glauman, University of Gävle
- Richard Lorch, Building Research Information
- Maria Hellström-Reimer, Malmö University
- Bengt Egberg Mikkelsen, Aalborg University
- Per-Olof Östergren, Lund University
Registration
This will open in June and a discount will be offered for early birds.
- June – September € 240 ex VAT (SEK 2,200)
- September – November € 270 ex VAT (SEK 2,500)
The conference fee covers:
- participation in all sessions
- access to the exhibition area
- a variety of technical visits
- a welcome reception on Wednesday 30 November
- Dinner in The old Town Hall on Thursday 1 December 2016.
