Dear Colleagues,

Call for Papers: 6th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2024), Florianópolis, Brazil, 18-20 September 2024.

Further to the 1st World Symposium on Sustainable Development  at Universities” (WSSD-U-2012) was held in Rio de Janeiro on 5-6 June 2012, the 2rd World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2014), held in Manchester, UK in September 2014, the 3rd World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2016), hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held in September 2016, the 4th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2018), hosted by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in August 2018 and the  5th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2022), hosted by Allegheny College, United States, we are now inviting papers for the
The “6th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2024), to be held in Florianópolis, Brazil, 18-20 September 2024.

It is organised by UNISUL (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/ of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) https://esssr.eu/, in cooperation with the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre  https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/wsd-rtc/, the Inter-University Sustainable Development  Research Programme (IUSDRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iusdrp/, the UK Consortium on Sustainability Research https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/ecology-environment/groups/zero-carbon-sustainable-futures/UK-CSR, and the United Nations University initiative “Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development” (RCE).

The “6th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2024) will focus on “The Transformative Power of Higher Education Institutions in Accelerating the Implementation of the UN SDGs", and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.  As the slogan of the event suggests, we are -as always- looking for practical experiences on Education, Research and Extension (the so-called 3rd Mission, whereby universities outreach to society as a whole (e.g. to local communities, organisations, industry and other groups) with the aim of identifying ways to speed-up the implementation of the UN SDGs, since 2030 is not that far.
 
The book “The Transformative Power of Higher Education Institutions in Accelerating the Implementation of the UN SDGs"  will be published, with all accepted papers. It will be part of the award-winning “World Sustainability Series” https://www.springer.com/series/13384, published by Springer Nature, one of the world´s top five scientific publishers. Abstracts are due by  30th March 2024. Full papers are expected by 30th June 2024.
Further details can be seen at: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/university/newsroom/news-details/news/news/show/6th-world-symposium-on-sustainable-development-at-universities/.
Rgds,

The Organisers

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