The Global Conference on Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption taking place November 1-4, 2015, in Sitges, Barcelona Spain, follows successful traditions of ERSCP & EMSU conferences which are closely associated with Journal of Cleaner Production mission and regularly contribute also to its content (special issues are regularly produced in consequence of them). Usually these conference series encompassed two main themes: European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP) was concerned with technological prerequisites for transition towards sustainability, while The Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU) part was focused on its educational conditions, especially on higher education level. This EMSU part has become independent over 15 years of its existence, gradually involving leading institutions in the field. This time, the themes of the Conference are even more broad as all aspects of “ecologically, ethically, socially, culturally, and economically sustainable transition” are of interest here. The organizers have already negotiated numerous strategic alliances and involved representatives of different global networks and institutions in the preparatory process to integrate global efforts towards sustainability. COPERNICUS Alliance currently joins as an intellectual contributor to this event and considers it as a unique opportunity to highlight its mission in higher education arena, as well as its specifics demonstrated by its individual members. Presentation of CA members’ activities and input in the field of teaching, operations, policies and other sustainability innovations within higher education would thus be very much welcome either as individual presentations or in a form of a workshop, exhibition, panel discussion or some other jointly organized initiative. Thus specific character and unique input of COPERNICUS Alliance will be presented in the context of other networks’ initiatives, so that opportunities to cooperate with other actors with different roles in higher education on European as well as global level will be raised.
For individual contributions please follow the call for abstracts which is due till May, 29, 2015.