Location:
Building A5, Rooms 0-054/055/056
Ammersländer Heerstr. 67-99
26111 Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Overview:
Social learning and innovation processes are often seen as crucial for the implementation of sustainability. However, there is little conceptual and empirical knowledge available on how and under which circumstances social learning takes place and how it could be initiated. The conference shall foster exchange on the problems, experiences and conditions of social learning in the field of sustainability and on the role of participatory approaches in this context. Keynote lectures will be given by Dr Jill Jaeger, coordinator of the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS) and the former executive director of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP); and by Dr Matthijs Hisschemöller, senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. In three seperate workshops, conference participants will discuss the key aspects of the GELENA Project: 1) Social Learning and Evolutionalry Economics
2) Participatory Product Development
3) Integrated Assessment Models as a Tool for Social Learning