We welcome researchers at Lund University to submit their research contributions! The conference will focus on Charting the Way Forward. We will discuss research and methods for action and progress, and will highlight obstacles and challenges to be overcome. The conference will also serve to prepare for the second call for Lund University Interdisciplinary Projects Focusing on Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development, expected to be announced in the near future. At this conference, we ask researchers at Lund University for research contributions and pitches to the matchmaking event, that relate to the three conference themes:

Theme I: Understanding and measuring processes in sustainable development
Key words: Future-oriented methodologies, mixed methods research, sustainability performance indicators, measuring, analysis, uncertainty, complexity, resilience, substitutability.

Theme II: Research for sustainability and change
Key words: Technologies enabling sustainable development, sustainable solutions, mitigation, collaboration, co-creation, industrial transformation, drivers of change, impact logic, impact synergies, effects, innovation.

Theme III: Implementation – obstacles, challenges, and opportunities
Key words: Challenges, implementation problems, contextual understanding, distributional issues, judgment and decision making, system analysis, technology and sustainability trade-offs, policy.

Deadline for abstract submission is 6 March.

Read more about the call for abstract – sustainability.lu.se

Read about the conference – sustainability.lu.se