Final GELENA conference, 24.05.2007
"Societal Learning and Sustainability"
What is required for companies to evolve sustainably? How can they design their products more sustainable and more user-friendly? How can consumers arrive at insightful buying decisions? And how can researchers induce and support such processes of learning and change? Questions like these have beed addressed by the GELENA project during the past 5 years, focussing on companies, consumers and political institutions. The results shall be pesented and discussed at the final conference against the background of recent developments in science and politics.
The conference builds around three workshop sessions. The session on "Institutionalisation and Sustainability" discusses institutional settings and frameworks that support or hinder companies to develop towards suatainability. Participants of a second session on "Organisational Learning and Sustainability" discuss the the project's insights on processes of innovation and learning within companies together with company representatives. The third session focuses on "Innovation and Consumer Integration" by discussing experiences made during the pilot study of the INNOCOPE method for participatory product development.
In the concluding panel discussion on "Knowledge creates Sustainability?", representatives from science, politics, business and the media explore the conditions and mechanisms how sientific knowledge on climate change turns into concrete activities of societal actors.
The conference is open to the interested public, held in German and free of charge. Registration is required until 15.05.07 using the registration form. The detailed program contains all invited speakers and even more information.
Venue: Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20, D-14195 Berlin
Date: 24.05.2007, 11:00-17:30h
Detailed Program (PDF downlaod, 137 kB)
(Contributions that have been given without presentation are shown in
italics.)