On the occasion of the 11th International Circular Economy Conference the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) of the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (University of Applied Sciences Trier) in cooperation with the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW) of Engagement Global invites guests from all over the world to the networking meeting “Municipalities for Global Sustainability”.
- When: Thursday, 29 October 2020
- Where: Environmental Campus Birkenfeld and Online (details to follow shortly)
The focus of the event is to share experiences made from the development of international city cooperations and to present the development and implementation of concrete projects to implement/advance towards the SDGs.
In addition, a global dialogue will be started from 14:15 (CET) to initiate the possibilities for the development of municipal (project) partnerships. This will take place in a virtual workshop, during which the participating municipalities will have the opportunity to present themselves and exchange ideas for cooperation.
In order to prepare the moderation of the virtual rooms, we ask interested municipalities to inform us when registering in which area the municipality is already active, where there is a special need for action and which special features are brought with them for an international project. For this we ask you to use the following form.
Due to the corona pandemic, only a limited number of guests can be welcomed on the environmental campus. Therefore we ask you to submit a binding registration if you are interested.
Participation in the event is free.
Welcome/Introduction
12:00 Circular Economy in Municipalities for Global Sustainability as a strategic instrument for meeting the 2030 Agenda
Prof. Dr. Peter Heck | Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS)
12:15 Municipalities for Global Sustainability
Annette Turmann | Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW)
Impulse lectures: Experiences from existing cooperations
12:30 Activities of a city cooperation
Mayor Andreas Veit | Municipality Nohfelden (Saarland)
NN | Balingor (Senegal)
13:00 Importance of civil society for the development of international city cooperations
Marc Engel | Municipality Nalbach (Saarland)
NN | Assié-Koumassi (Ivory Coast)
13:30 Ways to develop an international city cooperation
Christoph Hassel | City of Ottweiler (Saarland)
NN | Belén (Costa Rica)
14:00 BREAK
Promotion of SDG projects through international city cooperation
14:15 Presentation of cooperation offers of the municipalities
International introduction round of the municipalities participating in the matchmaking.
In order to prepare the introduction round and to coordinate the moderation, we ask you to fill in this form.
14:45 Project Exchange – Matchmaking Session
15:45 Closing statement
NN | Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS)
16:00 End of event
* Please note that due to the corona situation we cannot guarantee participation on site. The contingent of available places is allocated after the registration time and can be revoked if necessary.
The following information is required in order to prepare the moderation process for the workshop phase.
