Conference announcement: "Making an Impact – Collective Actions Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production"
7th - 8th December 2009 / Brussels, Belgium
'Making an Impact - Collective Actions Towards SCP' conference will bring together a range of high quality speakers to discuss and develop recommendations about the role of civil society in SCP at a regional, national and international level. The conference is targeting CSOs, researchers and policy makers working in the field of SCP. The conference is kindly hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (December 7th) and the Brussels representative of the German state NRW (December 8th).
Why attend?
The Conference programme is lively, interactive and participatory. It includes the following topics and workshops:
- SCP and policy development: high-level panel discussion on how to engage civil society in the SCP Policy processes
- Voice of the CSO Platform on SCP: develop concrete ideas for collective actions to promote SCP policy processes at regional, national and EU level.
- CSO’s vision: SCP in Europe. The voice of the CSO Platform will be shaped to concrete recommendations to make an impact towards SCP.
- Creating partnerships for making more impact: three workshops discussing solutions for better collaboration between CSOs, researchers and business.
- Tools for effective implementation of new ideas: Interactive discussions with experts to learn more about funding, communication and media tools to promote SCP.
- Looking to the future: Interactive panel discussion to summarise the outcomes of the project and to discuss the future activities.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Only 150 places, filled in the order of registration!
See the draft version of the conference agenda and download the registration form: http://www.scp-dialogue.net/news.html
Please see also the Call for existing good cases and new project ideas
(required for participants applying financial support):
http://www.scp-dialogue.net/getinvolved.html
About the 'CSO Platform on SCP' project
The Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Platform on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) is an EU FP7 funded project coordinated by UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) in Germany, together with project partners the Regional Environmental Centre (REC) in Hungary and the Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) in the UK. It is the first ever SCP dialogue platform giving CSOs space to influence political decisions, find funding opportunities, explore creative tools and identify research needs. 'Making an Impact - Collective Actions Towards SCP' is the final event of the project, bringing together the key networks, messages and ideas created during the last two years.
For more information, please contact
Satu Lähteenoja on satu.lahteenoja@scp-centre.org
Martin Charter on mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk
Join our online NING platform at http://csoplatform.ning.com and take part
to the discussion already before the conference!
We look forward to meeting you in December!
CSO Platform on SCP Conference Organisers
