SOBIO Days 2024

Date: October 30th 2024
Venue: Tiedepuisto, Joensuu, Finland

In 2024, the SOBIO Days will be organized as a doctoral school. The event is organized in collaboration with Social Scientific Biosociety Research Network (SOBIO), UEF Research Center for Sustainable Circular Economy (CECE), and Sustainability Transformations doctoral education pilot (SuSTra) on October 30th in Joensuu. Therefore, the SOBIO Days 2024 will also be “The 1st international PhD workshop on Sustainable Innovation in Business and Society”.

See more information about the event here: https://sites.uef.fi/cece/

The PhD workshop is the offical pre-conference event for ‘4th International Conference for Sustainable Resource Society – ICS24’. More information about the conference, abstract submissions, and registration can be found here: https://sites.uef.fi/ics/

The International Conference for Sustainable Resource Society is a multidisciplinary conference focused on challenges of sustainability transitions in society, environmental change, and sustainable use of natural resources. The PhD workshop participants will be encouraged to take part in the conference as well.

The workshop is intended, 1) to create a special space in which PhD students can develop academically, 2) learn from other like-minded students, and 3) build an international network of fellow PhD students and faculty. This interdisciplinary PhD workshop is targeted to PhD students whose research topics are related to sustainability, circular economy, and innovation. Participating students will have the opportunity to present their research, which will be discussed by their colleagues and senior faculty.

Thematically, the PhD workshop focuses on ways to advance sustainability transition through practices, processes and people involved in sustainable innovation and renewal. The workshop explores solutions for sustainable futures including operating models for economic growth and increased well-being without over-consumption of fossil fuels and natural resource.

In this one-day PhD workshop, the participants mainly work in small groups. Each group consists of 1-2 professors or senior faculty. Each PhD student will be assigned a professor or a senior faculty, who will discuss and comment on their paper in particular, but also other papers in the group. Furthermore, each PhD student will discuss and comment the work of others, hereby, also learning reviewing skills.

Additionally, the workshop includes an expert speaker presentation: an inspirational and motivational speech on sustainability given the sustainability professor Arto O. Salonen from the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. The workshop will be held entirely in English.

Program of the PhD workshop

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Tiedepuisto Joensuu, Länsikatu 15, 80110, Joensuu, Finland

8.30 Coffee and registration
9.00 Opening words
9.15 Keynote, prof. Arto O. Salonen, University of Eastern Finland
10.00 Break
10.15 Parallel sessions I
10.50 Lunch
12.00 Parallel sessions II & III
13.25 Coffee break
14.00 Parallel sessions IV & V
15.25 Closing words
18.00 Evening program at Tiedepuisto

Click here to download the detailed programme (PDF)

The event received financial support from five UEF research communities: CLEHE, FOBI, PHOTONICS, RESOURCE and WATER.

Learn more about UEF research communities: https://www.uef.fi/en/research