Two Tuesday Public Lectures on Sustainable Development and Economy for the Common Good

On Tuesday 27 October, the University of Luxembourg will be offering two public lectures on Sustainable Development and Economy for the Common Good.

The first conference, organised alongside the Chambre des Salariés of Luxembourg will be centered around 'Measuring on the Path Towards Sustainable Development'.

The presentation will examine the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals forming part of the United Nations' long term strategy for 2030 aimed at achieving a well-balanced pathway of sustainable development. In order for these targets to be achieved, concrete policy projects need to be designed, implemented and monitored.

As well as the new set of indicators of the SDGs, the presentation, at the Pétrusse room of Hotel Parc Belle-Vue, will discuss the data, and its availability, needed to measure progress of the new goals. The conference will feature speaker Walter Rademacher, Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union. To register for the event, which will begin at 18:30, e-mail irsei@uni.lu.

At the same time, a second public lecture will take place as part of the series on Social Enterprise and Social Innovation from the University of Luxembourg.

Entitled 'Economy for the Common Good and the Common Good Balance', it will look at (ECG) in its capacity as an alternative economic system built on values which promote the needs of the entire population. A tool for economic, social and political change, the ECG works in a democratic and participatory process towards an economic system which place the Common Good at the centre of all economic activity.

The lecture, providing an in-depth look at ECG as a potential for far-reaching change, will be given by Christian Felber, founder of the 'Economy for the Common Good' and University Teacher at Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Graz, University of Klagenfurt and Polytechnic University of Valencia, amongst others.

The event will be held at 18:30 at the University of Luxembourg, Limpertsberg Campus, Bâtiment des Sciences, Auditoire BS 0.03 (Ground Floor), 1621, avenue de la Faïencerie, 1511 Luxembourg.