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Engineering Education for Sustainable Development International Conferences are hosted on a biannualy basis.

EESD Conferences Objectives

Translating Sustainability into concrete targets

Acting for sustainable development: today this injunction is the subject of broad consensus. The good intentions have been widely expressed, and translating these good intentions into concrete targets is the ambition which must inspire all education actors in sustainable development. They need to update and to exchange the objectives and contents of their courses and their teaching methods.

Every two years, Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) conferences gives this opportunity to the engineering community.

The EESD 2002 conference was organised by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, Netherlands). The Technical University of Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona, Spain) welcomed the EESD 2004 participants. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), organised the third edition, EESD 2006, in Lyon (France).

This year, a new EESD International Conference was just held in Graz, Austria, hosted by Technological University of Graz, Graz University, RCE (Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for sustainable Development), University of Applied Sciences Graz and the Academy of Sciences. EESD 2008 - Bridging the Gap.

At the welcome evening, participants of EESD2008 Conference were challenged to work together building a bridge
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