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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KNOWLEDGE CAMPUS DELFT

The ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference will take place at the knowledge campus in Delft, where the organisers Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THU) and TNO Delft are also located. The conference will partly take place at the TU Delft Aula Conference Centre and partly at the building of the Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society of THU. Both buildings are within five minutes’ walking distance from each other.

 

TU DELFT AULA CONFERENCE CENTRE

The Aula Conference Centre is the multifunctional conference centre of the Delft University of Technology at Mekelweg 5. It is located at the heart of the University campus and relatively close to the old city (10 to 15 minutes on foot). The Aula Conference Centre is an icon of modernity and approximately 35 years old, though it still looks modern and has recently been modernised.

 

ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION & SOCIETY

The Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society Delft of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THU) was inaugurated at the end of 2009 and is located at Rotterdamseweg 137 on the knowledge campus in Delft.

 

CITY OF DELFT

Delft is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, and was established as early as 1246. Delft is nicknamed ‘de Prinsenstad' (the Princes' City), because William of Orange, the first in the Dutch royal line, held court in Delft in the 16th century. Other famous historical figures who lived and worked in Delft are the painter Johannes Vermeer and the inventor of the microscope, Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek.

Delft has a pleasant, well-preserved and lively historical centre, with characteristic canals, ancient merchant houses, old churches and a magnificent city hall, which makes it a popular tourist attraction throughout the year. Visitors can choose from a variety of high quality accommodations.

Delft has approximately 96,000 inhabitants, including a significant share of the students and employees of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), TNO and the Academy of Technology, Innovation & Society Delft of The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The presence of these organisations has attracted a large number of technology-oriented companies.

 

CLIMATE

The Dutch climate is temperate, with warm summers and soft winters that occasionally allow ice-skating on the country's many lakes, rivers and canals, although, due to climate change, this occurs less frequently. The transitional seasons can be both tempestuous and calm, producing the characteristic skies that inspired the famous Dutch painters.

Daytime temperature varies between zero and ten degrees Centigrade in winter, between five and twenty degrees in the spring and autumn, and between fifteen and thirty degrees during the summer. Average annual rainfall is 750 mm.

 

 

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