SDG Festival Programme 2021

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri will be the first keynote speaker on the SDG Festival 2021, speaking on: What is the Future We Want? The European Green Deal as tool to achieve the SDG agenda.

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is a world-renowned environmental economics professor and global leader in sustainable development. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy.

Read more about Prof. Phoebe Koundouri(opens in new tab)

Watch the Opening by our President of the Executive Board Henk Hagoort and the Keynote by Prof. Koundouri here(opens in new tab).

The Round Table conversation will be on the role of education in the realization of the European Green Deal. This conversation will be a continuation of the keynote given earlier this day by Prof. Phoebe Koundouri*.

Participating in the Round Table are:

• Prof. Phoebe Koundouri(opens in new tab)
• María Cortés Puch(opens in new tab)
• María García Alvarez(opens in new tab)
• Sandra Pellegrom(opens in new tab)

You are invited to join the discussion by raising your digital hand or in the chat. We are looking forward to the input and opinions of the audience.

Watch the Panel Discussion here(opens in new tab). 

This keynote by Kees Klomp is on re-making learning and understanding of economics to regenerate our environment. This keynote will be in Dutch. There are limited seats available on Windesheim. In addition, you can register to join a live stream.

Kees Klomp is a part-time lecturer at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Founding Partner of THRIVE Institute(opens in new tab). He is also the initiator of the content-platform Purpose People. In regard to practical knowledge transfer, he interviews valuable entrepreneurs and tries to capture their personal story behind the company, on film.

More on Kees Klomp (opens in new tab)(in Dutch)

Click here (opens in new tab)to watch the Keynote of Kees Klomp.

The topic of this Panel Discussion is collective action, collective wisdom. The discussion will be held in Dutch. There will be limited seats available at Windesheim. In addition, you can register to join a live stream.

The panel members are:

• Ryan Hoekman, Climate Campus
  Ryan is the coordinator of educational projects at Climate Campus. Climate Campus is a collaboration of more than 40 sustainable parties around the IJssel region. They support local initiatives, from citizens to regional projects. 
• Elle Dales, Windesheim student and member of Green Hub
  Elle is a third year student Global Project and Change Management. Through her study she aims to learn how to apply the SDGs. She is eager to put her current knowledge into practice and make meaningful connections with other activists. She thinks the best way to do this is by joining the Green Hub, a student initiative promoting, providing and preserving sustainability in its local environment. 
• Rutger de Roo van Alderwerelt, WEAll NL, WEAll Youth
  Rutger is a member of the Core Team of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Netherlands (WEAll NL) Hub. After having written his thesis on the integration of the UN SDGs in International Financial Markets, he became fascinated about the transition to an economic system that puts human and ecological wellbeing at the centre of its purpose
• Ivy de Bruijn, SDG Nederland
  Ivy is the Project Lead for #Duurzaam Regeerakkoord and Community Builder at SDG Nederland. She has specialized in media, privacy and intellectual property law (trademarks, patents, copyright) for 6 years and is the co-founder of Stop Online Shaming, a foundation offering legal aid to victims of cyberbullying, revenge porn and discrimination online through strategic litigation.
• Liesbeth Rijsdijk, Windesheim Honours College/ Global Project and Change Management
  Liesbeth has a passion for education for sustainability. She was part of the team that developed Windesheim Honours College, the first professional college in the Netherlands focused on sustainable development. Liesbeth is also a member of the SDG Changemakers movement and of the Portfolioboard Sustainability at Windesheim. As a senior researcher at the research programme Social Innovation she does research into wicked problems, specifically climate & energy. 
• Alex van Oost, Director Stichting Noordelijk Innovatielab Circulaire Economie (NICE) After his career in the west of the Netherlands at Royal Haskoning DHV and Almere Municipality, Alex van Oost settled in the Province Drenthe in 2011. He was close involved with the area- and economical vision for the North of the Netherlands. Since 2017 he is in charge at NICE, a foundation who is close connected to education, but at the same time is a SME Company (MKB Bedrijf) that works on market development and products for a new circular (thinking) method.

• Bert Beun, CvB, Zwolse8, Deltion College
  Bert is the Chair of the Executive Board of Deltion College since 2012. He is well-connected within the Zwolle Educational Network, with Deltion also being part of the Zwolse8. Zwolse8 is an initiative of 8 Universities of Applied Sciences and Vocational Colleges (hbo- and mbo-schools) who collaborate on multiple levels. 

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Keynote by Emeritus Professor Stephen Sterling on the future of education: from education for sustainability to education as sustainability.

Dr. Stephen Sterling is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education at the Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth, UK.

He has worked in environmental and sustainability education in the academic and NGO fields nationally and internationally for over four decades, including as a consultant and advisor on UNESCO’S Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programmes, and as co-chair of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD International Jury.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute, a Senior Fellow of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and a Fellow of the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC). Widely published, his research interest is in ecological thinking, systemic change, and transformative learning at individual and institutional scales to help meet the challenge of accelerating the educational response to the sustainability agenda and crisis.

 www.sustainableeducation.co.uk(opens in new tab) 

Click here (opens in new tab)to see the Keynote of Prof. Emeritus Stephen Sterling.

During this session, there will be short presentations and a Q&A on Dutch higher education (the future is now). Laureates share their own vision on the future of education and how they are trying to make this future a reality today.

The presenting teams are:

• Value Creators, Windesheim
• TU/e Innovation Space, TU Eindhoven
• RASL-minor, Erasmus University, in collaboration with Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Codarts Rotterdam.

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Closing keynote which will be a visualization exercise by Dr. Anneloes Smitsman.

Dr. Anneloes Smitsman is founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre. She is a visionary scientist, published author, futurist, system architect, and leadership catalyst for the transition to a Thrivable Civilization. 

She holds a master's degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, and received a degree of Doctor from the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, where she conducted her Ph.D. as an external researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (formerly ICIS). Her groundbreaking Ph.D. dissertation Into the Heart of Systems Change(opens in new tab), addresses how to diagnose and transform key systemic barriers of our world crisis through its proposed Transition Plan for a Thrivable Civilization(opens in new tab). 

More information about Anneloes Smitsmane(opens in new tab).

Click here (opens in new tab)for the Closing Keynote by Dr. Anneloes Smitsman anf final words by Director External Affairs of Windesheim Honours College Liesbeth Rijsdijk.