Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for Unstable Earth (RESCUE)

RESCUE Synthesis Report - Launch Event

RESCUE Stakeholders Conference

16-17 May 2011 in the International Auditorium, Brussels, Belgium

The programme and presentations of the RESCUE Stakeholders Conference are available here.

List of registered participants

Speakers included:

• Dr. Paul Rübig, MEP, Chair, European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment [STOA] Panel
• Dr. Anneli Pauli, Deputy Director General, EC-DG Research & Innovation
• Prof. Leen Hordijk, Chair, RESCUE Scientific Steering Committee; Director, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC-JRC
• Dr. Marc Heppener, ESF Director of Science and Strategy Development
• Dr. Patrick Monfray, Director, “Global Environmental Changes and Societies” Programme, French National Research Agency [ANR]
• Prof. Gísli Pálsson, RESCUE SSC Vice-Chair; Chair, “Science Questions” Task Force; Dept. Anthropology, Univ. Iceland
• Prof. Michael Goodsite, Chair, “Collaboration” Working Group; Director, Nordic Centre of Excellence on Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research
• Dr. Jill Jäger, Chair, “Interface” Working Group
• Prof. Keith Richards, member of the "Requirements" Working Group; Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge
• Prof. Asuncion St. Clair, representing the "Revolution" Working Group; Dept of Sociology, University of Bergen

N E W S ! The "RESCUE briefing for stakeholders" has been updated (20/07/2011) after this Stakeholders Conference.

The RESCUE Stakeholders Conference concluded the main RESCUE work plan, and made it possible to present and discuss the key RESCUE findings with a range of actors and stakeholders in Europe and beyond (e.g., science funding agencies, science policy makers, researchers, research managers representing key science communities and initiatives, representatives from universities and NGOs).

This conference has been organized around plenary, thematic (related to research, education, society, governance, innovation, audiences) and integrative (roadmap implementation; importance; feasibility; desirability; confidence; tools for monitoring progress; success metrics and risks factors) sessions. Through consensus building, the participants worked towards the establishment of a common roadmap for the implementation of the key RESCUE recommendations.

Please note that the programme included also a public outreach event with a keynote lecture delivered by Prof. Edwin Zaccaï (ULB, Brussels) on the topic of “sustainability science meets society”.

• venue: the International Auditorium: located in the International Trade Union House; Boulevard du Roi Albert II, No. 5 / 2; B-1210 Brussels
• maps
• List of hotels in the area

Should you be interested in this event, please contact us.

RESCUE Integration Workshop

The RESCUE Integration Workshop has been held at the University of Antwerpen, Belgium, on 8-10 December 2010. See the programme (last update: 8th December 2010)

RESCUE Alignment Workshop

Ispra site

The RESCUE Alignment Workshop took place at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), EC-Joint Research Centre, in Ispra, Italy, on 16 June 2010.

It brought many RESCUE WG members and together with the RESCUE leaders and some of the QRG members, and offered all participants a unique opportunity to further exchanges ideas and suggestions while the WGs are preparing their draft contributions.

The goals of this Alignement Workshop were to:

• present and discuss the most recent progress of the Working Groups and their preliminary recommendations;
• discuss and agree on common framework and approaches
• examine RESCUE outputs in terms of quality, timeliness, suitability, feasibility, acceptability, impact, opportunities and risks in the European context
• identify the missing elements and critical success factors
• tentatively, establish a preliminary ranking of the recommendations

RESCUE SSC & QRG meeting

RESCUE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and Quality Reference Group (QRG) met on 14 January 2010, in Brussels, Belgium.

RESCUE Launching Conference

The RESCUE Launching Conference was held on 10-11 September 2009 at the IFP for Innovation, Energy and Environment, in Rueil-Malmaison, France.

This meeting gathered members of the Working Groups as well as a limited number of key actors who contributed to the RESCUE activities development.

The programme and presentations of the conference are available by clicking here.

Interviews with conference participants are available by clicking here.

Pictures from the conference are available by clicking here.

 

RESCUE SSC meeting

The first "formal" Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) meeting was held on 9 September 2009, at the CNRS Headquarters, Paris, France, as an acknowledgement to the initial request for developing RESCUE presented by the French National Research Centre (CNRS) to the ESF.