ESDN Conference 2021
“European Recovery and Resilience Mechanisms - Challenges in systemic approaches in SD”
Virtual, 30 November - 01 December 2021
The Conference was organized by the ESDN in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia and the SLOGA Platform and took place during Slovenia's EU Presidency and was an official EU Presidency event. The Conference brought together sustainable development policymakers and experts from different stakeholder groups from all over Europe.
The title of the Conference was “European Recovery and Resilience Mechanisms - Challenges in systemic approaches in SD” and focused on many topics relating to recovery and resilience, such as social, environmental, economic, financial and policy resilience, as well as themes important for sustainable development. The Conference saw keynote presentations from the European level and national level, as well as inputs from Youth Representatives, who presented their Youth Manifesto from the ESDN Youth Workshop. The Conference also featured 9 Exchange Spaces, which allowed Conference participants to hear a myriad of topics from climate adaptation, to technology, to governance and policy coherence, to name a few. The interaction during the Conference took place in these 9 Exchange Spaces, in which participants were able to listen in and discuss on three of the nine topics.
AgendaDownload
Session 1: Resilience and Building Forward Better – The European Perspective
EU Resilience and Recovery / Building Forward Better Mechanisms for Sustainable Development - keynote address
Magdalena Morgese Borys, Head of Unit in SG.RECOVER.A1, European Commission, Belgium
Resilience in the process of the Conference on the Future of Europe
Jure Vršnak, Deputy Director-General, Directorate for EU Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia
Putting the European Green Deal to work: the governance challenge in systemic transitions - keynote address
Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director, European Environment Agency, Denmark
Enhancing Resilience and Building a Coherent Response for a Sustainable Post-Covid-19 Recovery in Europe from a Global Perspective
Session 2: Aspects of Resilience for Sustainable Development in practice
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development – Practices in some Member States
Integrating the SDGs into National Recovery and Resilience Plans
Ricardo Rio, Mayor of Braga, Portugal
ESDN Youth Workshop Manifesto
Session 3: Panel Discussion on Fostering Resilience in Sustainable Development Policy-Making - Integrating Perspectives
Environmental and Ecological Resilience
Marie-Luise Abshagen, German NGO Forum on Environment and Sustainable Development, Germany
Societal Resilience
Heather Grabbe, Open Society Foundations, Belgium
Economic Resilience
Sami Pirkkala, ESDN Vice President, Prime Minister’s Office, Finland
Financial Resilience
Simon Savsek, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Policy Resilience
László Borbély, Prime Minister's Office - Department of Sustainable Development, Romania
Session 4: Exchange Spaces on Resilience and National Level Good Practices on Recovery
Topic 1: Climate Adaptation
Angelika Tamásová, European Environment Agency, Demark
Topic 2: R&I for a Green Recovery
Ionuț Purică, Prime Minister's Office - Department of Sustainable Development, Romania
Topic 3: Digitalization Supporting Transformations
Wolfgang Ebner, Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, Austria
Topic 4: Circular Economy
Marjana Dermelj, Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Slovenia
Topic 5: Governance for Sustainable Development
Annika Lindblom, ESDN President, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Topic 6: Transformative Education for Sustainable Development
Natalia Kouhartsiouk, Bridge 47 Network and Slovenian Global Action (SLOGA), Slovenia
Topic 7: Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Lessons learned
Leida Rijnhout, Consultant, SLOGA, Slovenia & Albin Keuc, SLOGA, Slovenia
Topic 8: Wellbeing Economy/Economy within Planetary boundaries
Topic 9: Technological Innovations for the Sustainability Transitions from COP26 Perspective
