The future must be sustainable: Reducing the environmental impact of higher education events

Conferences bring together international colleagues, providing valuable networking, learning, and partnership opportunities for the international education field, but they come at a high environmental cost. This session aims at identifying opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of these activities, offering solutions, and sharing best practices.

Topic

• Social responsibility
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Chair

• Margherita Pasquini, 

  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Speakers

• Jacqueline Phillips, 

  EAIE, Netherlands

• Daniel Ponce-Taylor, 

  Intercultural Outreach Initiative, USA