This international, interdisciplinary and intercultural scientific gathering aims at bringing together researchers, lecturers, political and economic actors and African civil society organizations, to share experiences and reflections, in order to co-create innovative global models of responsible waste management adapted to the wide variety of African contexts; while actively involving all actors in the society, coordinated by the authorities of decentralized local entities, and developing models, methods and strategies for social entrepreneurship, as well as social marketing for behavioral change in waste management and for a more sustainable future.

This symposium is deliberately intended to be international and multidisciplinary: communication sciences, political sciences, economics and management sciences, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political and social history, geography, (applied) linguistics, sociolinguistics, semiotics, letters/literature, arts and theatre, (socio)didactics of languages and cultures, educational sciences, administrative sciences, information systems, law, etc.

Organized by the Department of Communication and Information Technology of The Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences of The University of Ebolowa (Cameroon) and the University of Félix Houphouet-Boigny (UFHB) of Abidjan (Ivory Coast), in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for Higher Education, Research, and Innovation in Responsible Global Management (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland), the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development (University of Bucharest, Romania) as well as with the UNESCO Chair for the Training of Sustainable Development Professionals (University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France).

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025