With the 2030 Agenda (also known as the SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals), the nations of the world have agreed to do something for global sustainable development. The 17 goals not only include the fight against poverty and hunger and the establishment of a high-quality healthcare and education system. It is also about the careful use of resources, the preservation of natural diversity, local initiatives for sustainability, sustainable economic activity and much more.

The opportunity to achieve the global sustainability goals is closely linked to learning:
We should learn how to commit ourselves to sustainable development both locally and globally.
The question is: Do the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda provide the catalogue of what we should be dealing with at school? Is it comprehensive or is something missing? Does it demand too much? Can we agree with the goals at all?
But we also need to ask: What good examples are there that show how this can be done:
Learning and implementing sustainability? What actually constitutes good education for sustainable development? Last but not least: Are the young people and their teachers actually interested in the topic and fit in?

Thursday 07 March 2019 | 14:00 - 15:00 | A14 - Lecture Halls 1 & 2

The business model of the R.U.S.Z repair and service centre fully complies with the circular economy concept published by the EU Commission at the end of 2015. It provides added value for the community on a social and ecological level in that the permanent employment of formerly long-term unemployed mechatronics technicians trains them to become experts in their field and makes a significant contribution to resource conservation by extending the useful life of consumer goods. It creates added value domestically, has practised the strategy of conserving resources as a key guiding principle since its foundation and has been committed to sustainable production and consumption of electrical appliances for 20 years. With this and in combination with its successful public relations work and extraordinarily effective lobbying, it has an impact locally, nationally and at EU level. In particular, we support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 8, 12 and 13.

It is unacceptable that profit-orientated, international consortia exploit raw materials in the countries of the South, which are then processed in emerging countries under inhumane conditions into products that we in the North buy cheaply, value correspondingly little and quickly throw away.

Friday 08 March 2019 | 09:00 - 10:00 a.m. | A14 - Lecture Halls 1 & 2