About ERSCP & EMSU

The European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production is a non-profit forum that provides a platform to stimulate, develop and disseminate new initiatives aimed at fostering the implementation of concepts involving sustainable consumption and production and approaches within local and regional sustainable development initiatives.

Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities has evolved into a series of international conferences that explore the role of universities in creating new knowledge and attitudes to meet today’s environmental challenges. EMSU promotes a two way exchange of knowledge between universities and society.

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Organisers

 

DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Established 1842 by King Willem II, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has a rich tradition that goes back more than 160 years. Today, there are eight faculties offering fifteen BSc and twenty-nine MSc programmes. With approximately 13,000 students and an academic staff of 2,100 (including 200 professors), TU Delft is the largest and most comprehensive university of engineering sciences in the Netherlands.

 

TU Delft is an entrepreneurial state university at the forefront of technological development serving the interests of society. It conducts cutting edge research and provides first class education. In addition to national accreditation, many of TU Delft's educational programmes have also been acknowledged by international organisations, such as the American Board of Engineering & Technology (ABET). At TU Delft, students and researchers work on issues of great societal relevance, devoting particular attention to the four themes of energy, the environment, infrastructure and healthcare, as well as important fundamental research. Research is conducted within eight faculties, research institutes and research schools. Each year, the University's cumulative research results in more than 200 PhD dissertations and over 6,000 publications in scientific journals. Research and education are interrelated, most notably in the MSc programmes, which are research-driven and challenge students to make their own contributions.

 

Since the mid-1990s, TU Delft has been working on integrating sustainability in all its educational programmes, which was especially stimulated by the Education in Sustainable Development (ESD) project that started in 1998 on. At present, all bachelor students take an elementary course in sustainability, while sustainability has been intertwined in many other courses, a graduate specialisation open to all Master students has been on the programme since 2001 and several sustainability-oriented Master programmes have been started. Currently, TU Delft is also working on making the campus sustainable (in collaboration with other knowledge organisations located at the campus and students). This includes demonstration of sustainable technologies improved and developed at TU Delft.

 

The conference is co-organised by staff members of the Technology, Policy and Management (in particular the Technology Dynamics & Sustainable Development section) and the Industrial Design (in particular the Design for Sustainability section)faculties.

 

THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

The Hague University of Applied Sciences has over 19,000 students from more than 100 different countries. The Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society Delft is located in Delft and is very much involved in organising the ERSCP-EMSU 2010 conference.

 

TNO

TNO, a ‘not for profit’ independent knowledge organisation for companies, government bodies and public organisations, was established by Dutch government in the 1930s. TNO’s mission is to support innovation in Dutch (and European) business by innovation. TNO a staff of 5,000, clustered in five Core Areas.

 

The conference is supported by the Business Unit Innovation and Environment of TNO Built Environment and Geosciences. TNO Built Environment and Geosciences is active in domains that are highly relevant to sustainable consumption and production. It includes sustainable mobility, energy-neutral built environment, the use of geo-energy, etc. The BU Innovation and Environment (40 staff) was responsible for a large number of major studies in the field of Integrated Product Policy, resource use and sustainable consumption, in connection to radical innovation for sustainability (system innovations and transitions), innovative use of policy instruments, and governance. The BU has a central position in the Dutch knowledge network on system innovation and transitions, among others through its collaborative centre with Erasmus University. It has run key European projects in the areas of governance, policy instruments and sustainable consumption, including SusProNet, SCORE, EIPRO, POPA-DACT, performance targets for products, and others. The BU is considered one of the most visible institutes in its field in the Netherlands and has a strong position in the EU27 when it comes down to policies relating to (radical) innovation of consumption and production structures in view of sustainability demands.