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1 Time 08:30-09:00 09:00-10:30 LUMES Alumni conference 2017 Program Day 1 (May 18) Activity Registration and Coffee Register, pick up your name tag, conference gift and grab a coffee! Welcome! Welcome - Torsten Krause (Director of Studies) & Amanda Elgh (Student Coordinator) Keynote speeches 1. Emily Boyd (Director of LUCSUS) 2. Evelin Piirsalu (Stockholm Environment Institute) 3. Jennifer Hinton (Stockholm Resilience Center) 4. Lennart Olsson (former Director of LUCSUS 10:30-11:00 Break - move to LUCSUS (buildings Wrangel / Josephson) Panel discussion: Exploring the sustainability agenda - examples from different sustainability-oriented projects (Convener - Reshmi Vasudevan) Interactive Panel Discussion: Enabling Change Development of Key Competencies in Sustainability through Project-based Sustainability Courses (Convener - Theres Konrad) Location (see maps at the end of the program) Genetikhuset Aula, Sölvegatan 29 Wrangel library (2nd Carson (3rd 11:00-12:30; Session 1 Research presentations # 1 (see page 5 for details) Workshop: Circular Economy: Greenwash or a real deal for Sustainability? Key concepts and two case studies (Convener - Stefán Freyr Einarsson, Zoi Volioti and Jurijs Kondratenko) Project presentations # 1 (see page 6 for details) Session / workshop: Designing the Sharing City: Bringing together Design Thinking and Urban Sharing Concepts (Convener - Verena Hermelingmeier) Ostrom (3rd Wrangel 117 (1st Maathai (3rd Wrangel 116 (1st 1

2 12:30-14:00 Lunch break (catered lunch will be provided) Workshop: The journey after LUMES- Developing a roadmap for the sustainability scientist. (Convener - Theodoros Kolonas and Jen Hinton) Workshop: Climate justice: How do we get there? From changing consumption to civil disobedience. The examples of coal mining in Colombia and Germany (Convener - Flavia Cardenas and Julia Hoffmann) Wrangel 1st floor, Josephson 3rd floor and outside Carson (3rd Wrangel 117 (1st 14:00-15:30; Session 2 Research presentations # 2 (see page 5 for details) Session: High-Performance Homes: Design Team, Technologies, Building, Testing, and Benefits" (Convener - Erik Daugherty) Project presentations # 2 (see page 6 for details) Panel discussion: & open debate on "Is CSR a revolutionary approach to sustainability for businesses?" (Convener - Lucas le Provost) Ostrom (3rd Wrangel 116 (1st Maathai (3rd Wrangel library (2nd 15:30-16:00 LUMES and IIIEE coffee 16:00 - open Career Fair together with IIIEE - Program will be announced soon, Mingle with snacks and drinks from 17:30 onwards 19:00-20:30 Movie screening - Climate Refugees; Event organized by Hållbart Universitet Wrangel building and outside Wrangel (and in the garden if weather permits) Ostrom (3rd 2

3 LUMES Alumni conference 2017 Program Day 2 (May 19) Time Activity Location 08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee Workshop or Seminar: Post-growth economies for sustainability (Convener - Jennifer Hinton) Research presentations # 3 (see page 5 for details) Wrangel 1st floor, Josephson 3rd floor and outside Wrangel library (2nd Ostrom (3rd 09:00-10:30; Session 3 Workshop: 'What does it mean to 'fail'? Discussing unsuccessful student-led sustainability projects' (Convener - Rebecca Laycock) Workshop: Complementarity between methods and tools in Sustainability Science and Economics. (Convener - Alejandro Eguez) Project presentations # 3 (see page 6 for details) Wrangel 117 (1st Wrangel 116 (1st Maathai (3rd Project presentations # 4 (see page 7 for details) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30; Session 4 Research presentations # 4 (see page 5 for details) Workshop: Sustainability Science and Dialogic Organization Development: What sustainability scientists can learn from organizational change theory. A presentation on approaches and a chance to practice a few tools. (Convener - Kaitlin Almack) Carson (3rd Wrangel & Josephson (LUCSUS) Ostrom (3rd Carson (3rd 3

4 Workshop: From 11:00-12:00 - Part I on "You wanna work for the EU 'Interactive workshop" AND from 12:00-12:30 - Part II on "How to build a website? (and manage it yourself)" (Convener - Sebastian Munteanu) Workshop: Connect, inspire and learn: How to strengthen our LUMES Alumni Network (Convener - Lars Holländer and Sanne Raggers) Project presentations # 5 (see page 7 for details) Panel discussion: Alternative energy futures - What is the energy future we want to build and how do we get there? (Convener - Helen Steiniger) Panel discussion: Challenges to environmentalism in the age of Trump (Convener - Henrik Thorén & Chad Boda) Wrangel 116 (1st Wrangel library (2nd Maathai (3rd Josephson Room Wägner (3 rd Wrangel 117 (1st 13:00-14:00 Lunch break (around Lund, please note that this is not catered) 14:00-17:30 - additional workshops 18:00 02:00 Workshop (14-17:30): Mission possible: gamification as a new smart tool to increase public participation and contribution to building "bottom-up" sustainable cities (Convener - Anna Arakelyan); Participants - Please bring your own computers Workshop: energy transition in a world of unlimited energy - the challenge of creating an energy system that is fit for the future in the absence of traditional drivers (Convener - Michael Benson) Workshop (part of Sustainability Week): Milking mother earth: discovering the complex connections between gender and sustainability. (Convener - Brynn Szukala) THE BIG LUMES PARTY - Games, Dinner, Music, Comedy & Dancing Carson (3rd Wrangel 117 (1st Wrangel library (2nd Mejeriet, Lund 4

5 Research presentations All in building Josephson, Room Ostrom (3 rd Time Presenter Title Research presentations 1 (Thursday 11-12:30) Research presentations 2 (Thursday 14-15:30) Research presentations 3 (Friday 9-10:30) Research presentations 4 (Friday 11-12:30) Shona, Jenkins (chair) Sara Gabrielsson Daniel Jiro Ayala (chair) Ruth Marguerite Kruger Rebecca Laycock (chair) Alejandro Eguez Stefan Partelow Erik Daugherty (chair) Nabila Zouhiri Pia Buschmann Chad Boda Sara Gabrielsson Theo Aalders David Lam (chair) Kai Kuhnhenn Exploring participatory community development in peri-urban Ghana: Common failures of bottom-up and top-down participatory development Water and sanitation as an entry point to women s empowerment and livelihood transformation in rural Tanzania Biodiversity investigations involving a combination of 'old-school' and more modern techniques in concert, and more recently on trying to save the critically endangered European eel. Dam(n)ing justice: environmental justice in the Grand Inga Project Using Participatory Action Research with Episodic Volunteers: Learning from Urban Agriculture Initiatives Energy performance certificates: their role and limitations to bridge the energy efficiency gap. A sustainability agenda for tropical marine science "Introducing High-Performance Home Construction in Nashville Tn Lessons Learned, Testimonials, Data, Carbon Reduction Potential" Due process / human rights of irregular migrants: challenge to sustainable development Rethinking barriers to mitigation with theories of power: The case of lock-ins in the German energy transition The beach beneath the road: Sustainable coastal development beyond governance and economics Rushing into solutions without grasping the problems - The value of sustainability science for improving sanitation services in East Africa "Thicker than blood - resisting the emerging oil industry in northern Kenya" Scaling local initiatives in sustainability transformations: A classification of amplifying and enabling processes Degrowth in movement(s) - 32 ways toward a social-ecological transformation 5

6 Project Presentations All in building Josephson 3 rd floor, Room Maathai or Carson Time & Location Presenter Title Project presentation 1 (Thursday 11-12:30); Josephson - Room Maathai (3rd Project presentation 2 (Thursday 14-15:30); Josephson - Room Maathai (3rd Courtney Dahl (chair) Akinwale Aboyade Christoph Aberle Juozas Abaravicius Theo Haris (chair) Jurijs Kondratenko Evelin Piiirsalu A Montessori Foundation for Environmental Education Challenges to improving energy access in Southern Africa "The Bike Heat Map" How we use data to improve urban cycling. NORDBALT Project - building energy bridge between Lithuania and Sweden The LIFE Programme of the EU Pioneering the use of sustainable urban drainage systems in the city of Riga. The work deals with technical as well as institutional issues Marine Waste in the Baltic Sea (BLASTIC project) Project presentations 3 (Friday 09-10:30); Maathai (3rd Camille Gil Johannes Brossmann Pau Bosch Tina Nyfors (chair) Tim Taylor (chair) Convergence of struggles & the "ZAD" of Notre dame des landes: a means to an end or a starting point for political dynamics? Living degrowth - A transformative endeavour, Investigating practices, motivations and challenges of living for a new era How to get support from people and create public opinion to defend the environment A deep connection to earth - one year in New Zealand Catalysing Sustainable City Projects 6

7 Project presentation 4 (Friday 09-10:30); Josephson - Room Carson (3rd Lasse Brand Takehiro Kawahara Oleg Izyumenko (chair) Edwin Malagón Emily Norford From planning for the car to planning for people: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in European cities, are we getting there fast enough? Frontier Market Outlook - Powering Next 1 Billion People Crowdfunding for Solar Energy in Africa - Fighting poverty and climate change at the same time: an online crowdfunding platform that invests people's savings in small-scale solar energy projects in rural areas of Uganda, Kenya and Zambia Sustainable energy in action. The role of cities and food in sustainability transitions (TBC) Project presentation 5 (Friday 11-12:30); Maathai (3rd Luka Traven Anna Danyliak (chair) Eva Wiesemann A critical analysis of the idea of circular economy, especially in relation to the waste management practices that are being promoted under this EU policy package. The cost of "cheap" protein: Cases of Ukrainian rural communities' opposition to industrial animal farming. Developing climate adaptation measures with the local community in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods - Experiences from the project KiezKlima, Berlin 7

8 Here is a map over the Lund University area where the Genetikhuset (Sölvegatan 29) is located the venue for the Registration and Keynote Speeches on Thursday, May 18 8

9 And here is a map over the Lund University area where LUCSUS (Biskopsgatan 5) is located Josephson Wrangel 9

10 How to find Mejeriet (Stora Södergatan 64) and the party on Friday night 10

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