Most of us have heard about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. But what do they really mean to our research, and how can we harness them to make our research more relevant, better connected and more readily funded?

This year’s meeting theme is ‘The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’.
How are BECC and MERGE stakeholders adapting to the new development agenda?
And how can our research contribute to Sweden’s implementation of the 17 SDGs?

At the 2019 spring meeting we will meet stakeholders, learn about their implementation efforts and identify knowledge gaps. Our goal is to further enable BECC and MERGE researchers to convey the relevance of their research with regard to the SDGs and the capacity of Swedish stakeholders to implement them.

Where: Wallenberg Conference Centre, Gothenburg
When: May 7-8 in 2019 lunch to lunch

Speakers/workshop leaders confirmed: Ingrid Petersson (FORMAS), Katherine Richardson (Copenhagen University), Jan Pettersson (Gothenburg University, GMV), Måns Nilsson (SEI), Marie Stenseke (Gothenburg University, IPBES), Karin Hogstrand (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) and Anders Bergström (County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland)

The meeting is organized in collaboration with Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV)