Event Details
The week-long event, SRI/SSD2024, will bring together 2000+ participants from more than 100 countries online and in-person to both Aalto University in Espoo and University of Helsinki in Finland.
“The SRI Congress offers an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations and building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation.”
UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition Founding Executive Director, Dr Steven Hartman, will be representing the Coalition on a Climate and Cultural Heritage (CCH) panel titled “Sensory Heritage” The panel will foster transdisciplinary discussions addressing urgent sustainability challenges, made up of representatives from projects under the CCH scheme. Dr Hartman will be discussing the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition Coastal TALES project, led by the BRIDGES UK Hub based at UWTSD. The transdisciplinary Coastal TALES project asks: How can stories of past practices help people (re)discover more sustainable ways of living in their rapidly changing coastal environments? The goal of the project is to show how heritage stories can generate tangible local action that diverse communities can draw on to adapt to a changing climate. Using a transdisciplinary approach, building on the knowledge and agency of local communities in dialogue with academic expertise across the spectrum of humanities and sciences.
The Coastal TALES project is 1 of 16 projects funded through the CCH 2023 call for collaborative research to address urgent challenges. The CCH collaborative research action (CRA) focuses on the impact of climate change on cultural heritage and opportunities for climate mitigation and sustainable development. Using lessons from the past to speak directly to interdisciplinary challenges linked to the climate emergency, focusing on resilience and vulnerability to climate change to support food systems, biodiversity, human health, and social equality.
For further information on the SRI congress: https://sricongress.org
For further information on UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition see our website: https://bridges.earth/
Connect with BRIDGES on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unesco-bridges-coalition
