Conference: Leveraging Research Partnerships for Global Challenges

KFPE - Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries

The KFPE invites you to attend the KFPE international 2018 annual conference in Bern, which will focus on the new roles and tasks for science in general and research partnerships in particular to address the 2030 Agenda.

With:

• Melissa Leach
• Mohamed Hassan
• Xiao-Nong Zhou
• Maria Balarin
• George Oduor
• Helen Fletcher
• Matthias Egger
• Tatjana von Steiger
• Silvia Hostettler
• Elisio Macamo
• Peter Messerli
• Marcel Tanner and
• KFPE president Thomas Breu

Focus of the conference:

The 2030 Agenda is ambitious because of not only the number of outlined objectives and the topics they address, but also because of two additional fundamental challenges. The first is the time horizon: in just 12 years, we are meant to have moved into the post-fossil age, or at least such a shift should be in sight. This requires a pragmatic approach, building on prevailing knowledge and existing capacities. The second challenge is systemic in nature: the 2030 Agenda also call for a new global partnership. Such a partnership should be inclusive and multidisciplinary, with stakeholders from politics, the private sector, civil society, as well as, explicitly, the research domain. What this means, for the respective stakeholders, or how it is effectively achieved, is left open. The challenges for science and research are therefore twofold: they are to translate, in a short space of time, knowledge into action, while also help establish a new global partnership for sustainable development. In tangible terms, what does that mean for research partnerships? Simply suppliers of scientific evidence to political decision-makers? Or designers of solutions (including dos and don'ts)? Or even active players in generating transformative change (engagement), beyond the traditional role of research?

Please register by 17 November 2018.

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