SPREAD Visions and Policy Action Conference, 10 November 2011, Brussels, Belgium
The SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050, European Social Platform FP7 project organised the conference: "Sustainable Lifestyles 2050: Visions and Policy Actions. A high-level roundtable for policy-makers, experts and practitioners".
This event took place on 10 November 2011 (from 10am to 4.30 pm) at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union, Rue Montoyer 47, Brussels, Belgium.
Key themes:
- Vision 2050: What will a future where all Europeans are living more sustainably look like? Experts from policy, business, society and design will present their visions for more sustainable futures
- Promising practice 2011: What are current learnings and promising practice for sustainable living from across the EU-27? Entrepreneurs and practitioners addressing more sustainable living models, today and from across Europe, will present their promising practices
- Policy: What policies will enable more sustainable living options across Europe? Policy-makers, experts and practitioners will discuss promising policy practice already delivering more sustainable living and co-create policy action pathways to more sustainable lifestyles of the future
Agenda
10.00 – 10.30 Sustainable lifestyles: Present and future. An introduction to the SPREAD project
- Research & Innovation DG aims. By Domenico Rossetti, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
- SPREAD project – current findings. By Cheryl Hicks, Project Director & Team Leader, CSCP
To download the available presentations, please click here.
10.30 – 12.00 Visions for more sustainable lifestyles from across the EU. Panel Discussion
- Policy: Jan Philipp Albrecht, Member of the European Parliament
- Business: Dick Toet, Vice President Category External Affairs Unilever
- Civil Society: Martijn van der Linden, Platform DSE
- Design: Francois Jegou, Strategic Design Scenarios
- Regional view: Jozsef Szlezak, REC
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break. Your ticket to the Future: Visualising more Sustainable Lifestyles 2050
13.00 – 14.00 Promising practices of more sustainable lifestyles models and initiatives from across the EU. Panel Discussion
- Current impacts of European Lifestyles, Lars Mortensen, European Environment Agency
- Eco-communities, Sue Riddlestone, Bio Regional
- Collaborative consumption / Sharing economy, Juha Koponen, CEO & Co-Founder Netcycler Oy
- Healthy lifestyles, Tobias Leenaert, Ethical Vegetarian Alternative
- Nudging & promising policy practice, Graham Russell, Centre of Expertise on Influencing Behaviours, Defra
14.00 – 15.30 From vision to action: Policy pathways to sustainable lifestyles 2050. Working Group Discussions, led by WG leaders Policy mechanisms to enable more sustainable lifestyles visions via Living, Moving,Consuming, Health & Society
15.30 -15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.30 Bringing actions on stage: Outcomes of workshop discussions Plenary session
The final conference agenda can be downloaded here.