Event date: April 16, 2025
Event time: 14:00 - 15:00 CET
Location: Online to be accessed via the EARMA website
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Webinar Description
A university’s environmental sustainability has long mattered to academic leaders. Increasingly, addressing sustainability has become a strategic goal, achieved by both the research and the teaching activities of the institution. In a recent Elsevier survey of 450 global academic leaders, 85% said high sustainability performance was a top priority for their institution, and nearly two-thirds said it had high transformational potential. However, only 54% reported making good progress.
Join us as representatives from prominent European institutions discuss their sustainability initiatives, compare challenges faced, and identify successful strategies for fostering high sustainability performance within their organisations. This interactive session will also include a Q&A segment, allowing attendees to delve deeper into the topic and share their own experiences. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from leading experts and contribute to the conversation on advancing sustainability in higher education.
Webinar Panelists
- Dra. Sonia Utermann – EARMA Annual Conference Program Committee member, GSI Germany
Sonia Utermann (GSI, Germany) My academic background is in physics. For the past five years, I have been working in project management at a particle accelerator currently under construction: the Facility for Antiproton and lon Research in Europe (FAIR). I wrote my MBA thesis on the innovation impact of Big Science procurement. I am the lead scientist of the CASEIA study, which is funded by the European Union H2020.
- Louise Drogoul – Advisor for Innovation & Sustainability, CESAER
Building on her previous experience as communications officer at EUROCONTROL, Louise Drogoul is CESAER’s Advisor for Innovation & Sustainability. Louise graduated from International Relations and Politics at the University of Sheffield and has also completed postgraduate studies in European and East Asian studies at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. In her current role, Louise coordinates CESAER’s activities in innovation and sustainability, advocates at global, European, national
and regional levels; represents the association externally; and serves and advises its governing bodies, committees and task forces.
- Alexandra Teodósio – University of the Algarve, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainable Development)
Alexandra Teodósio is Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainable Development at the University of the Algarve (UAlg) and the European University of The Seas, SEA-EU: Erasmus+Partnerships for Excellence. She was Deputy Director at the CCMAR Centre of Marine Sciences. She coordinates the Consortium of Marine Sciences Schools (Centro Ciencia Lingua portuguesa -UNESCO, CIENCIA LP) that supports PhD scholarships for Portuguese-speaking countries' nationals (FCT funding). She is the deputy director of the CoLAB in Sustainable and Smart Aquaculture. She is a Full Professor of Marine Sciences (Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography 1996). Her main research interests lie in the impacts of global change on aquatic food web and biodiversity, such as warming, acidification, invasive species, jellification, and plastification of the seas, from tropical to temperate areas. Her research and education projects have focused on sustainable blue growth to address the needed blue ecological transition. She coordinates the Ecoreach research group - Ecology and Restoration of Riverine, Estuarine, and Coastal Habitats. She is responsible for the planktonic time series in the South Iberian Lower Guadiana Station (https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod/time-series/pt-30201/) with data since 1997. She has been teaching and researching at UAlg for the last 35 years, with sabbaticals at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), Barcelona, Spain, in 2005/06, and at the University of Miami, USA, in 2015/16. In UAlg, she has coordinated several study programs, including bachelor's, masters, and Ph.D. programs. During the 2017-2021 mandate as Vice Rector for Research of UAlg, she coordinated the creation of the Gender Equality Inclusivity Plan - PI2UAlg. This plan was implemented within the Sustainable Horizon (SHEs) project, where she is the PI (European Universities designing the horizons of sustainability - 101071300 Horizon Europe, 2022-2024). She is the president of the UAlg Sustainability Council, where the annual sustainability report on SDG has been elaborated since 2021. She is now deputy director of the Collaborative Laboratory in Sustainable and Smart Aquaculture S2AQUA. She has experience as the main advisor of students and early-stage researchers in marine sciences, having been involved in supervising 16 PhD students (6 already completed), 27 Masters students, and over 50 undergraduates. She also promotes citizen science projects both in Portugal and Africa. She coordinates several projects in capacity building for marine science in African countries. She has been a permanent external evaluator for the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) in the Biodiversity and Ecology Expert Panel and the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation for several years. She has been involved in more than 30 European and nationally funded research projects. She is/was an associated editor of several research journals (Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science; Diversity) including the citizen science UAlgoritmo magazine. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed research articles (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57214851696) and she has contributed to several book chapters. Recently, she co-edited one book, Zooplankton Ecology 2021. She interacted with over 300 researchers: 67% International and 7% Academic-Corporate. Her scientific work has contributed to the agenda UN2030 SCI VAL analysis (oct 2024), mainly through Goal 13- Climate Action: 15 documents, Goal 14-Life below water: 52 documents, Goal 15- Life on land: 25 documents, Goal 17- Partnership for the Goals: 12 documents.
Webinar Moderator
- Claudio Coialacomo – VP, Academic Relations Elsevier
Claudio Colaiacomo holds a degree and a Masters in Physics an MBA and a Masters in Contemplative Neurosciences from the University of Pisa. He is a Mindfulness trainer and coach. In his earlier career, he has worked as a researcher in the US and Austria after moving to Elsevier where he covered several managerial roles. Today he is Vice President for Academic Relations a role where he meets with the management of research institutions in Southern Europe and the media with the aim of exploring synergies and new ways to serve the scientific community. He’s an expert of the publishing industry, his interest span widely from Physics, History and Philosophy. He is a speaker and published author himself. He lives in Rome with his family.
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