09 March 2016
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Festsaal, Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Public Event: Human Capital, Geopolitical Complexities, and our Sustainable Future
In 2015, major international fora, among them the UN General Assembly in New York in September and the UN Conference of Parties (COP) in Paris in December, adopted the major global agenda for sustainable development and sustainable transitions. In parallel, geopolitical complexities and tensions in many regions of the world, including larger Europe and Euro-Asia, present additional challenges in implementing New York and Paris commitments. In the European Union, this complexity is further exacerbated by the situation concerning migration and refugees. Human capital, access to education, as well as socio-economic, cultural, and religious aspects of our future demographic profile will be the key determining factors, and Europe is one of the leading world regions where interplay among all these factors calls for a simultaneous academic and political debate and solutions.
Against this backdrop, Professor Pavel Kabat International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in collaboration with Professor Anton Zeilinger Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Dr. Franz Fischler European Forum Alpbach (EFA), Professor Jeffrey Sachs Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (LC UNSDN) and der Standard are jointly organizing a public event to address and debate these issues among academia, politics, and governmental agencies.
Keynote address by Professor Dr. Shalini Randeria
Photo Gallery
Agenda
| 18:00 | Welcome remarks by o.Univ.-Professor Dr. Anton Zeilinger, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, Director General & CEO of IIASA and Professor Dr. Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Vice President of the European Forum Alpbach |
| 18:10 | Introduction of the book: “Who survives? Education decides the future of humanity” by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Lutz, Director of the World Population Program at IIASA and Founder and Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and presentation to the Ambassador Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Director General, Section VII-Development, Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (representing H.E. Sebastian Kurz, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs) |
| 18:25 | Panel Discussion Moderator: Dr. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-Chief, Der Standard
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| 18:50 | Keynote address: Professor Dr. Shalini Randeria, Rector, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) on Precarious livelihoods, disposable lives, and struggles for citizenship rights |
| 19:10 | Panel Discussion on Human Capital, Geopolitical Conflicts, and Sustainable Development Goals with a short video statement by H.E. Sebastian Kurz, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs Moderator: Professor Dr. Pavel Kabat, Director General & CEO, IIASA
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| 20:00 | Reception |
The event took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna,
Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2.
Related book
Who survives? Education decides the future of humanity
by Wolfgang Lutz and Reiner Klingholz.
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Interim Deputy Director General for Science Directorate - DDG for Science Department
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Population and Just Societies Program
Principal Research Scholar and Senior Program Advisor Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group - Population and Just Societies Program
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