Covid Recovery: The role of European Universities of Technology in setting the path to a sustainable future post-covid

15 June 2021, 16.00 - 17.30 (CET)



The ENHANCE Alliance invites you on 15 June 2021, 16.00 – 17.30 CET  to its first public discussion “ENHANCE Conversations”. In order to develop and utilise science and technology for the benefit of society, the ENHANCE Conversations use the disruption caused by COVID19 as an insight for radical questions:

  • How can technological progress and innovation help societies to bounce forward from the climate and pandemic crisis, into a development paradigm fit for the 21st Century?
  • How can Universities of Technology contribute in their immediate environment and on a European level, to work towards a more sustainable society and economy?
  • Where must technical and social innovations go hand in hand?


Keynote speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel, Director of Research at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Asgeir Tomasgard, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Director FME NTRANS – Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies, Norway


Panel discussion:

  • Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel, Director of Research at THE NEW INSTITUTE, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Asgeir Tomasgard, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Director FME NTRANS – Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies, Norway
  • Michal Zdziarski, Co-Founder, Wheelstair, Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Dima Yankova, PhD Research Fellow at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) and Member of POLISS, Spain


Moderation:

  • Jan-Martin Wiarda, freelance Journalist since 2015, Author and Moderator.


  • For further questions please contact:

      Ana-Marija Cvitic
      Strategy Officer, ENHANCE Alliance
      strategy.officer@enhanceuniversity.eu