Call for Abstracts
The SMI (Sustainability Management for Industries) Online Forum, scheduled to take place on November 5th, 2024, is an international online event planned for the first time by the Chair of Economics and Business Management (WBW) in cooperation with the European University EURECA-PRO (The European University on Responsible Consumption and Production), in which current topics on the "Green Transformation" of European industrial companies are discussed. In line with the SMI discussion platform, topics from international speakers from science and industry will be presented and discussed with participants in this new online format.
This online forum invites all leading researchers, managers, employees, experts and PhD students from the fields of corporate energy and sustainability management, sustainable finance and all sectors involved in the "Sustainable Transformation" of industrial companies to submit abstracts and share their knowledge and expertise on the following topics:
Key Topics
- ESG ecosystem: concepts, assessment metrics, portfolio optimisation, trigger point
- Strategic development strategies: UN sustainable development goals (SDG), Paris objectives, climate neutrality, "net zero"
- "Green materials" and raw materials management: critical raw materials, conflict minerals, circular economy
- EU regulatory focus: EU taxonomy, CSRD, CSDDD, SFDR
- Financial valuation metrics in sustainability reporting (double materiality)
- Approaches and models of operational value creation
- Capital markets, credit markets and venture capital markets as drivers of the operational energy transition
Requirements
- Title of presentation (in English)
- Length of Presentation: 20 minutes including questions
- Abstract: 200-300 words (in English)
- Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024
- Send Abstracts to Gerald Feichtinger: gerald.feichtinger<at>unileoben.ac.at
For more information and to register, please visit:
wbw.unileoben.ac.at/weiterbildung/smi-plattform/smi-forum
