Timetable

The Sustainable Research Symposium 2022 will be held on May 19^th approximately between 9am – 3pm CET. The program will be followed by a networking event.

Our program covers topics such as innovative ideas to increase sustainability in research, sustainability criteria in research funding, environmentally responsible conferencing and more!

Time table:

08:50 – Welcome and introduction
09:00 – Session 1: Current state of sustainability in science & future outlook

• 09:00 – Nikoline Borgermann – Ava Sustain
• 09:20 – Sustainable European Laboratories network (SELs)
• 09:35 – Hannah Johnson – Green Labs Netherlands
• 09:50 – Klimaatgesprekken 
• 10:10 – Marlène Bartes – European Commission, MSCA Green Charter

10:30 – Coffee break
11:00 – Session 2: Innovative ideas to increase sustainability in research or industry

• 11:00 – PAN Biotech
• 11:15 – Loic Lannelongue – University of Cambridge, UK
• 11:30 – Jan Heidelberger – Max Planck School Matter to Life, Heidelberg, Germany
• 11:45 – Justine van den Bergh & Anjelle Rademakers – UNI-ECO
• 12:00 – Daniela Farina – University of Exeter, UK

12:15 – Pitch your idea

Short pitches of ideas how to increase sustainability in science selected from submitted abstracts

12:30 – Lunch and poster session

Poster presentations selected from submitted abstracts

13:45 – Session 3: Panel discussion: How to make scientific conferences more sustainable?

Brendan Rouse – European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Jeroen Dobbelaere – Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, Austria
Viktoria Lamprinaki – The Company of Biologists, UK
Leonard Burtscher – Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands

14:45 – Closing
15:00 – Networking event