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) Sonia’s academic background is in physics. She has been working in project management and technology transfer at European particle accelerators and in the private sector since 2017. She wrote a monograph on the innovation impact of Big Science procurement. She is the lead scientist of the CASEIA study on the impact of innovation interventions, funded by European Union H2020. Her understanding of sustainability includes social, fiscal and technological sustainability, as well as ecological sustainability. In her spare time, she is a volunteer nature warden for the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) and bird census-taker tor the Atlas of German Breeding Birds (ADEBAR 2)
   

   

• Louise Drogoul – Advisor for Innovation & Sustainability, CESAER
  Louise Drogoul is Senior Advisor for Innovation and Sustainability at CESAER, the strong and united voice of universities of science and technology in Europe. In her role, she coordinates advocacy and strategy on innovation and sustainability, serving the association’s governing bodies, task forces and members. Over the past four years at CESAER, she has developed expertise in the interplay between higher education, research, innovation and sustainability. She is a co-author of the CESAER white paper ‘Leading by example Boosting sustainability through good governance adopted by universities of science & technology’ (2023), the joint report ‘Science for net zero transition’, and the joint report ‘Interdisciplinarity for the net zero transition’(2022), advocating for universities’ leadership in addressing global challenges.
   
• Alexandra Teodósio – University of the Algarve, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainable Development)
  Alexandra Teodósio is Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Sustainable Development (2021-2025) at the University of the Algarve (UAlg) and the European University of The Seas, SEA-EU: Erasmus+Partnerships for Excellence. She coordinates the Consortium of Marine Sciences Schools (Centro Ciência Lingua Portuguesa -UNESCO, CIENCIA LP) that supports PhD scholarships for nationals of Portuguese-speaking countries- Africa and Timor-Leste (FCT funding). 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 + Sustainable and Healthy Council, where the annual sustainability report on SDG has been elaborated since 2021. 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 webs and biodiversity, such as warming, acidification, invasive species, jellyfish, and plastic pollution of the seas, from tropical to temperate areas. 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. She interacted with over 300 researchers: 67% International and 7% Academic-Corporate. Her scientific work has contributed to the agenda UN2030 SCI VAL analysis mainly through Goal 13- Climate Action: 15 documents, Goal 14- Life below water: 55 documents, Goal 15- Life on land: 29 documents, Goal 17- Partnership for the Goals: 9 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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