Managing the Future for Environmental Resilience

✿ Organised by The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and Alda* - European Association for Local Democracy
✿ Registration on the.
The conference provides an interactive platform to explore how to overcome short-termism in local climate management, with a focus on future-oriented and participatory environmental governance. It will begin with a keynote speech from the European Environment Agency, followed by a panel debate titled “Local and Regional Policy Making for a Sustainable Future,” featuring institutional speakers discussing the challenges facing European cities and innovative approaches to addressing climate change. In the afternoon, experts will share insights on strategic foresight and key elements for future-oriented climate policies, including decentralised cooperation, participatory policymaking, and non-formal education.
✿ PROGRAMME:
11.00 _ Arrival and Registration
11.30 _ Keynote speech & Presentation of the FOSTER project
12.00 _ Panel debate “Local and Regional Policy Making for Sustainable Future”
13.00 _ Lunch break
14.30 _ FOSTER experts’ talk and peer exchange: key aspects in strategic foresight
16.00 _ Closing remarks and evaluation
16.30 _ Networking Aperitif
✿ EVENT DETAILS:
🌍 Free Public Conference
📅 When: 9th October 2024
🕙 Time: from 11.00 to 17.00
📍 Where: Studio 5, Place Sainte Croix, 1050 Brussels
🍽️ Lunch and Cocktail included
🖊️ Registration on the google form link.
The conference is organised within the FOSTER - Future oriented Solutions Toward Environmental Resilience, a two-year project funded by the CERV - Citizens Equality Rights and Values programme of the European Union. The project aims to contribute to the development of governance frameworks that can effectively and inclusively address future environmental challenges at the local level, by fostering strategic foresight and preventative local management of climate change-related phenomena. Started in September 2024, during the project, participants build capacity for foreseeing and analysing future socio-economic needs as consequences of climate change at the local level; as well as, co-designing potential solutions bringing together all relevant stakeholders and community representatives at the public and private levels. Finally, international online networks are created to share best practices, materials and widely raise the debate on future-oriented environmental governance.

Host or Publisher Council of European Municipalities and Regions