[P2P-F] Fwd: [Commoning] Invitation to the International Conference "Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons - Orienting Knowledge Systems and Inter-Generational Relations towards Sustainable Development and Rio+20" 15. & 16 September 2011 Klagenfurt/Austria

Michel Bauwens michel at p2pfoundation.net
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Subject: [Commoning] Invitation to the International Conference "Knowledge,
Youth and Global Commons - Orienting Knowledge Systems and
Inter-Generational Relations towards Sustainable Development and Rio+20" 15.
& 16 September 2011 Klagenfurt/Austria
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*Invitation to the International Conference*


*Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons*

*Orienting Knowledge Systems and Inter-Generational Relations *

*towards Sustainable Development and Rio+20*

*Date:*

15. & 16. September 2011****

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*Venue:*

Maria Loretto Palace, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Austria)****

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*Organizers:*

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Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana www.aso.zsi.at****

International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches
to Global Challenges www.glocha.info ****

Academic Council on the United Nations System – Vienna Liaison office
www.acuns.org ****

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*http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011*

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*General  Information*

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*"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present
*

*without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.”*****

*(source: World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Brundtland
Repor**t: Our common future. **1987) ** ***

* *

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Aiming for ‘sustainable development’ which would meet the needs of present
generations without compromising the needs of future generations – this has
been the promise of the heads of states and other global political leaders
who gathered at Rio Earth summit in 1992. ****

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Where do we stand 20 years later? ****

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Progressing climate change and dead-locked post-Kyoto negotiations,
biodiversity loss, ongoing extreme poverty in many places of the world,
escalating sovereign debt crisis and resulting cuts in public investment in
education, social welfare .. in times where the number of billionaires
according to Forbes grew 20 % in one year alone etc. are indicators that
humanity is far away from fulfilling the Rio 1992 summit promise and that
something is systemically/radically wrong in the way we manage global
wealth.****

** **

The population group most exposed to the non-delivery of global sustainable
development governance are global youth and future generations in general.
For sustainable development concept to function, it is crucial that global
resources management decisively maps and safeguards crucial sustainable
development resources, tame market economy forces and correct market
failures where they lead to destruction/overconsumption of natural resources
and mobilize innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships for global public
goods/global commons like provision of sustainable development related
knowledge and human capacity worldwide.****

** **

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de
Janeiro in June 2012 seems to be the one big window of opportunity for
global community to take stock of the “State of the future”, its many
challenges and systemic risks for ecosystems degradation and governance
failure and to forge – with substantial global governance innovations - a
strong global problem solving alliance which provides a multilevel and
multi-actor governance framework for coherent collaborative action which
would involve every global citizen.****

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At the ‘Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons’ conference youth from around
the world will have a voice to contribute to the process of UNCSD
preparation. ****

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A special focus of the conference will be on ‘knowledge’ as the key global
sustainable development governance coordination element. ****

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Another specific focus of the conference will be the IAAI proposal to frame
all those resources that are needed by present and future generations for
sustainable development as ‘global commons’ and to launch in the context of
Rio 2012 a multi-stakeholder partnership (and a related documentation and
assessment system) for global commons growth based on a shared social
responsibility for such global commons. This would provide a new
institutional framework for civic engagement and multilevel governance and
help strengthen the knowledge base for global governance.****

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*Draft Agenda*

*(continuous updates of the conference agenda will be available on
www.aso.zsi.at and www.glocha.info) *

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*Thursday, 15.09 Day 1 of the conference *

*(Focus on "Global Governance Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Resources Management, Highlighting the Systemic Role of Knowledge and
Youth")*

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*10.00 – 10.45     Session 1 - Introduction: Youth Perspectives - our VIPs *

** **

Youth representatives from Austria, Slovenia, Southeast European countries
and the world (South Africa, China, India, Australia, Mexico, US, Pakistan,
Qatar, Russia ..) ****

** **

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*10.45-12.15        Session 2: Market Failures - Global Environmental
Problems and Global Governance*

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**-     **Market failures (externalities & Public Goods) & Global Resources
Management****

**-     **Sustainable development, Trans-Generational Justice and the Role
of the UN System****

**-     **United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio 2012 - A
Window of Opportunity!****

**-     **Global Youth Claiming Sustainable Development Resources - the
Rio2012 Youth Song World Cup****

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12.15 - 13.30 lunch****

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*13.30 - 15.15      Session 2: Mapping and Mobilizing Resources for
Sustainable Development *

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**-     **Global Commons Innovations 4 Sustainable Development ****

**-     **Sustainable Development related Knowledge as Global Commons &
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2012****

**-     **Measuring intangibles - The 'We value' project ****

**-     **Mobilizing global civil society resources for knowledge based
responses to global challenges****

**-     **Reframing Global Philanthropy as Social Investment and
Collaborative Global Commons Growth****

**-     **Innovative Resource Mobilization for Global Environmental
Governance - The IPCC Scholarship Program Experience ****

** **

15.15-15.45        Coffee break****

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*15.45 - 17.30      Session 3: How to measure the contribution of science
and education to Sustainable  Development & Potentials of the 'knowledge
commons' concept? *

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**-     **The 'Knowledge and Learning for Changing Societies' program -
International Human Dimensions Programme****

**-     **The UNESCO Science, Technology and Innovation Global Assessment
Program and the Need for innovations in the global monitoring of STI****

**-     **World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities @ Rio
2012****

**-     **Education for Sustainable Development metrics and post DESD****

**-     **Knowledge and Sustainable Development metrics in the context of
WBC regional STI strategy development process****

**-     **Integrating SD related STI governance innovations in Southeast
Europe into (existing) science information systems****

** **

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*18.00 - 18.45      Launch of GloCha Center Klagenfurt-Ljubljana *

* *

*19.00 - 19.45      Launch of Rio 2012 Youth Song World Cup     *

* *

*[image: GloBalCan_variante3.jpg]***

* *

*20.00 -                 Reception*

* *

* *

*Friday, 16.09 - Day 2 of the conference *

*(Focus on "Research, Innovation and learning for Sustainable Development in
SEE")*

** **

*09.00-10.00        Session 4: Integrating Global Challenges in **local,
national, regional and global innovation systems*

** **

**-     **Knowledge, Grand Challenges and the Paradigm Shift from 'Research'
to 'Innovation' Systems****

**-     **Global Issues in Research Strategies and Programmes of Western
Balkan Countries****

**-     **Global Challenges and European Research Area governance (Ljubljana
Process) ****

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10.00 - 10.30      Coffee break****

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*10.30-12.30        Session 5: From ASO Ljubljana to GloCha Centers network*

Discussion of ideas/plans for project initiatives and event initiatives with
Representatives of ministries of science, universities and local
authorities/municipalities and youth organizations (from Southeast European
countries) about future cooperation potentials ..) ****

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*Invited special guests – envisaged cooperation partners of GloCha network;
open meeting, everybody welcome*

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*12.30 - 13.00      Closing Session: Adoption of 'Conclusions' and a 'Plan
of Action'*

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*13.00h                 End of conference  *

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*14.30 -                 Designing 'Our common future 2.0' - Development of
event and project initiatives *

*(informal continuation of session 5 IAAI, ASO Lj & partners)*

* *

**-         ***Sarajevo workshop Mobilize Diaspora4SD* (12 October 2011)****

**-         ***Knowledge as global commons event @ Delhi SustDev Summit 2012
*, TERI (2-4 February 2012) http://dsds.teriin.org/2012/ ****

**-         ***NY workshop ‚GlobalCommons, Knowledge and Ethics' connected
with UNCSD intersessional meeting *26 March 2012****

**-         ***Global Forum on Philanthropy Innovations and Research and
Education Funding @ Rio+20 universities conf.* 6/12
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/wssd-2012.html ****

**-         ***Project "Measuring the contribution of Research and Education
to Sust Dev"* (with links to UN AI, UNESCO STIGAP, KLSC-IHDP)  (to be
submitted to foundations by the end of 2011)****

**-         **project  *Global Challenges Centers network in SEE* (start
planned early 2012)****

**-         ***GloBalkCan Youth – Promoting Global Citizenship and Future
Orientation in Southeast Europe* (is already part of UN AoC SEE Action Plan,
http://www.investsciencesee.info/ccandun/images/stories/PRES/weiss.pdf) ****

** **

* *

*Further Information:*

  - Draft
Agenda<
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/conference_agenda.pdf
>and
background info
  ****

** **

*There is no registration fee!*

* *

*For Registration follow these links: *doc
format<
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/registrationform.doc>or
online
registration
form<
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/online-registration>
**

* *

*The conference will be video recorded and will be made available as
video-on-demand soon*

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*Links to related IAAI – GloCha activities:*

** **

*Global Citizens and Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Global Sustainable
Development Governance* – report from IAAI activities @ Annual Meeting of
Academic Council on the United Nations System 2011
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/84-reportiaaiacuns2011
****
** **Presentation of "Rio 2012 Youth Song World Cup" Initiative @ UN High
Level Meeting on Youth, July 25th 2011, UN HQ NY – Report and Videos of
presentations
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/87-rioinitiativepresentation
****** **IAAI Workshop "Rio+20 – A Window of Opportunity for a
Multi-Stakeholder Partnership on Global Commons Growth" at 64th UN DPI NGO
conference “Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens” Bonn/Germany,
Monday, 5 September, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/89-iaaiworkshopbonn2011
****

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[image: iaai.jpg]****

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*Miroslav Polzer*

Secretary General, International Association for the Advancement of
Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI (ZVR-Nr.: 918790591)****

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Director, Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) Ljubljana  ****

Member, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)****

www.glocha.info/iaai & www.aso.zsi.at, polzer at glocha.info & polzer at zsi.at; *
skype*: miropolzer; *twitter*: glocha_mp****

*Tel.*: +386 (0) 1 5684168 (office); +43 (0) 664 4203648 (mobile) - *Address
*: Dunajska 104, SI-1000 Ljubljana/Slovenia****

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*Every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity
itself, depends on him. *(Joseph Weizenbaum)**

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