EMBO: Promoting sustainability in the Life Sciences

Philipp Weber serves as the Sustainability Officer at EMBO and is a co-founder of Green Labs Austria. He has been a member of the sustainability advisory board of the University of Vienna. In his presentation, he will discuss how EMBO and various international funding organizations are increasingly acknowledging their significant role in advancing more sustainable research practices. In May 2024, EMBO hosted a multi-stakeholder workshop that brought together funders, representatives from research institutes, tool developers, and grassroots initiatives from across Europe to collaborate on environmental strategies. Philipp will present the outcomes of this workshop, the Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding highlighting existing challenges and opportunities for embedding sustainability in research funding.

Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding
https://zenodo.org/records/13938809

FWF Press Release October 22, 2024
European Network for Sustainable Research

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/europaeische-vernetzung-fuer-nachhaltiges-forschen

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