The School, carried out through a series of webinars and on-campus classes, focuses on the process of decarbonization, examining its solutions and implications for our society and businesses.
Applications for the Siena International School on Sustainable Development 2022 will be open from from 1 February until 4 March 2022. The fourth edition of the School will be carried out in three phases (from 14 March to 18 June 2022), combining didactic and scientific interactions in online and on-campus courses.
This year, the School targets a wide audience of academic researchers, project managers and officers in the private and public sector in Europe and beyond. The school aims to provide high-level training and qualification with professors and experts from internationally renowned bodies and institutions. With the objective of bringing forth solutions to the climate crisis, the School will focus on the process of reduction of GHG emissions. Participants will be discussing opportunities, solutions and implications of the decarbonization process for our society and businesses, in particular in the sectors of energy production, agri-food and industry.
The School is organized by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena, and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN), powered by Enel Foundation, and supported by the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS) and SDSN Europe.
Founded in 2018, the Siena Advanced School on Sustainable Development was the first training initiative ever launched in Italy to explore topics related to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, it focuses on the topic of decarbonization, and it is supported by a Scientific Advisory Committee co-chaired by Jeffrey Sachs (UN SDSN), Phoebe Koundouri (Athens University) and Carlo Papa (Enel Foundation). The Director of the School is Angelo Riccaboni, President of Santa Chiara Lab and Professor at the University of Siena.
The Siena International School on Sustainable Development 2022 is open to researchers, managers, officers at private and public institutions, and entrepreneurs. Its participants will create a network change-makers to develop and implement effective and inclusive solutions in the field of decarbonization. The School is open to a maximum of 250 participants to the online phases and up to 30 participants to the on-campus phase, taking place in Siena in June 2022.
In the three previous editions, more than fifty scholars and internationally renowned experts conveyed scientific knowledge, and best practices to more than 100 young researchers, professionals, and public servants.
This year, all the training activities will be held in English and carried out in three phases:
- self-learning phase to strengthen individual competencies through online courses (14-23 March);
- 12 webinars with internationally renowned experts and scholars on the challenges and solutions of decarbonization (23rd March – 20th May);
- 5-day on-campus classes and interactive workshops on implications and future solutions, held by international experts and high-profile professors, carried out at Santa Chiara Lab – the University of Siena from the 13th to 18th of June 2022.
At the end of this third phase, students will present the projects carried out with their working groups throughout the collaborative workshops.
Applications are open until the 4th of March 2022.
Words of the Scientific Advisory Committee
About the Organizers
Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS)
The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development brings together more than 300 member organizations among renowned institutions and civil society networks. Since 2016, it has worked to raise the awareness of the Italian society, economic stakeholders and institutions about the importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and to mobilize them in order to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena
The Santa Chiara Lab is the University of Siena’s Center for interdisciplinary innovation activities that promote projects on the UN 2030 Agenda and sustainable development, supporting an open innovation, based on co-creation, hybridization of knowledge and dialogue between the business world and academia.
The main areas of interest are sustainability, the agri-food sector, digital technologies, public health, cross-cutting capabilities. The Center is chaired by Professor Angelo Riccaboni, Chair of PRIMA Foundation, Chair of SDSN Mediterranean and Co-Chair of SDSN Europe.
ENEL Founation
Enel Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, promoted and financed by Enel S.p.A., that carries out initiatives to support the global energy transition towards a sustainable future for all. Active at the global level, Enel Foundation represents a scientific platform that engages with the most relevant actors of the business community. For its research and training activities in the energy field, Enel Foundation counts on its partnerships with some of the most renowned academic institutions and research centers in Italy and abroad.
Contacts:
Barbara Di Paola | + 39 392 9952426 | barbara.dipaola@gmail.com
Niccolò Gori Sassoli | + 39 333 9190303 | ufficiostampa@asvis.net
