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The SRI Newsletter informs sporadically about the Sustainability Research Initiative. For the time being it is published only in English.

Previous issues of the newsletter can be found below.

Newsletter

Videos on the «Priority Themes for Swiss Sustainability Research»

Issue 1 / 2023

12.04.2023

  • Videos and Podcasts on the «Priority Themes for Swiss Sustainability Research»
  • New website: Societal transformation to sustainable development
  • Future Earth: Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2023

SRI Newsletter 1/2023


Sustainability Science Forum 2022 - Bernard Lehmann, President Platform Science and Policy, SCNAT
Image: Anja Zurbrügg

Issue 8/2022

  • Conference report of the 2nd Sustainability Science Forum 2022: Shaping Research for our Future
  • Two new blogs of the sustainability science dialogue events with ZHAW and UZH

SRI Newsletter 8/2022


Sustainability Science Forum
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 7/2022

20.10.2022

Sustainability Science Forum 2022: Shaping research for our future. Check out the exciting programme and register now!

SRI Newsletter 7/2022


Sustainability Science Dialogue
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 6/2022

04.10.2022

  • Sustainability Science Forum 2022: Shaping research for our future. Programme details are now online!
  • Sustainability Science Dialogue: Upcoming events at UZH and ZHAW

SRI Newsletter 6/2022


3. Landschaftskongress
Image: Landschaftskongress

Issue 5 / 2022

01.09.2022

  • Outcomes of the SRI Workshop on Thriving Spaces @ World Biodiversity Forum 2022

  • Sustainability Science Forum 2022: Shaping research for our future
    Registration now open!

  • SRI / FoLAP Tandembeitrag zu Thriving Spaces am Landschaftskongress 2022

  • SRI 2022: All sessions now open access

SRI Newsletter 5/2022


Social Media

Issue 4/2022
16.05.2022

  • Follow us now on LinkedIn!
  • Save the Date: Sustainability Science Forum on 03.11.2022
  • Workshop on Thriving Spaces @ World Biodiversity Forum 2022

SRI Newsletter 4/2022


bern city
Image: C. Ritz

Issue 3/2022
04.04.2022

  • Sustainability Science Dialogue: Upcoming event on 14.06.2022
  • Blog posts: past Sustainability Science Dialogue
  • SRI Workshop @Sustainable University Day, 29.04.2022
  • FutureEarth: Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, 20.-24.06.2022

SRI Newsletter 3/2022


SRI report

Issue 2/2022
10.02.2022

Call for National Research Programme thematic proposals

SRI Newsletter 2/2022


SRI Congress 2022
Image: SRI Congress

Issue 1/2022
21.01.2022

  • Interview with SRI Steering Committee member Heike Mayer
  • Future Earth Call: Proposals for Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2022
  • Susstainability Science Dialogues with HES-SO, ZHdK and BFH & Wyss Academy
  • Blog posts: Sustainabiltiy Science Dialogues with UNIFR, swisspeace and UNINE

SRI Newsletter 1/2022


Launch Event Priority Topics for Sustainability Research - Video summary
Image: Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz

Issue 1/2021
30.03.2021

The challenges of sustainability: video highlights the need for action


9, 8, 7... #CountdownAgenda2030: es braucht vernetzte Lösungen, jetzt.
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 2/2021
24.06.2021

Results Event #CountdownAgenda 2030
Save the date: Sustainability Science Forum 2021
Sustainability Science Dialogue to start soon


Sustainability Science Forum
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 3/2021
06.09.2021

Sustainability Science Forum, 30.11.2021
SRI Event series: Sustaniability Science Dialogue
SAGUF Annual Conference on research funding
Future Earth Assembly to gather for the first time


Sustainability Science Dialogue
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 4/2021
01.10.2021

Sustainability Science Forum: Registration
Sustainability Science Dialogue with swisspeace
Sustainability Science Dialogue with University Fribourg


Sustainability Science Dialogue, Universität Neuchâtel, 28.09.2021_2
Image: SRI

Issue 5/2021
05.11.2021

Sustainability Science Forum 2021 only a few days away
Sustainability Science Dialogue with UniNE blog post online


Sustainability Science Forum
Image: Hansjakob Fehr, 1kilo

Issue 6/2021
26.11.2021

Sustainability Science Forum 2021 - Accelerating Transformation with live stream


Sustainability Science Forum 2021: Thomas Vellacott, CEO WWF Switzerland
Image: Anja Zurbrügg

Issue 7/2021
16.12.2021

Sustainability Science Forum 2021: Report, photos and video now online

Bild Video SRI

Ausgabe 1/2020
16.1.2020

  • Was ist die Initiative für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung?
  • Jetzt muss die Forschung Lösungen aufzeigen
  • Projektupdate: Resultate der 2019 Workshops
Mining in Namibia
Image: Wikipedia

Issue 2/2020
17.9.2020

  • Defining a decade of global sustainability science action
  • Good marks for the SCNAT research agenda
  • Launch of research priorities on December 8
Prioritäre Themen für die Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Image: Hansjakob Fehr

Issue 3/2020
26.11.2020

  • Endorse the white paper and share your opinion
  • SRI White paper out now
  • Launch of research priorities on December 8