Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 15-16

[Michel Bauwens]

*Invitation to the International Conference*


*Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons*

*Orienting Knowledge Systems and Inter-Generational Relations *

*towards Sustainable Development and Rio+20*

*Date:*

15. & 16. September 2011****

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*Venue:*

Maria Loretto Palace, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Austria)****

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*Organizers:*

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Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana www.aso.zsi.at****

International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches
to Global Challenges www.glocha.info ****

Academic Council on the United Nations System – Vienna Liaison office
www.acuns.org ****

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*http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011*

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*General  Information*

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*"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present
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*without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.”*****

*(source: World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Brundtland
Repor**t: Our common future. **1987) ** ***

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Aiming for ‘sustainable development’ which would meet the needs of present
generations without compromising the needs of future generations – this has
been the promise of the heads of states and other global political leaders
who gathered at Rio Earth summit in 1992. ****

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Where do we stand 20 years later? ****

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Progressing climate change and dead-locked post-Kyoto negotiations,
biodiversity loss, ongoing extreme poverty in many places of the world,
escalating sovereign debt crisis and resulting cuts in public investment in
education, social welfare .. in times where the number of billionaires
according to Forbes grew 20 % in one year alone etc. are indicators that
humanity is far away from fulfilling the Rio 1992 summit promise and that
something is systemically/radically wrong in the way we manage global
wealth.****

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The population group most exposed to the non-delivery of global sustainable
development governance are global youth and future generations in general.
For sustainable development concept to function, it is crucial that global
resources management decisively maps and safeguards crucial sustainable
development resources, tame market economy forces and correct market
failures where they lead to destruction/overconsumption of natural resources
and mobilize innovative multi-stakeholder partnerships for global public
goods/global commons like provision of sustainable development related
knowledge and human capacity worldwide.****

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United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de
Janeiro in June 2012 seems to be the one big window of opportunity for
global community to take stock of the “State of the future”, its many
challenges and systemic risks for ecosystems degradation and governance
failure and to forge – with substantial global governance innovations - a
strong global problem solving alliance which provides a multilevel and
multi-actor governance framework for coherent collaborative action which
would involve every global citizen.****

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At the ‘Knowledge, Youth and Global Commons’ conference youth from around
the world will have a voice to contribute to the process of UNCSD
preparation. ****

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A special focus of the conference will be on ‘knowledge’ as the key global
sustainable development governance coordination element. ****

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Another specific focus of the conference will be the IAAI proposal to frame
all those resources that are needed by present and future generations for
sustainable development as ‘global commons’ and to launch in the context of
Rio 2012 a multi-stakeholder partnership (and a related documentation and
assessment system) for global commons growth based on a shared social
responsibility for such global commons. This would provide a new
institutional framework for civic engagement and multilevel governance and
help strengthen the knowledge base for global governance.****

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*Draft Agenda*

*(continuous updates of the conference agenda will be available on
www.aso.zsi.at and www.glocha.info) *

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**-         ***Sarajevo workshop Mobilize Diaspora4SD* (12 October 2011)****

**-         ***Knowledge as global commons event @ Delhi SustDev Summit 2012
*, TERI (2-4 February 2012) http://dsds.teriin.org/2012/ ****

**-         ***NY workshop ‚GlobalCommons, Knowledge and Ethics' connected
with UNCSD intersessional meeting *26 March 2012****

**-         ***Global Forum on Philanthropy Innovations and Research and
Education Funding @ Rio+20 universities conf.* 6/12
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/wssd-2012.html ****

**-         ***Project "Measuring the contribution of Research and Education
to Sust Dev"* (with links to UN AI, UNESCO STIGAP, KLSC-IHDP)  (to be
submitted to foundations by the end of 2011)****

**-         **project  *Global Challenges Centers network in SEE* (start
planned early 2012)****

**-         ***GloBalkCan Youth – Promoting Global Citizenship and Future
Orientation in Southeast Europe* (is already part of UN AoC SEE Action Plan,
http://www.investsciencesee.info/ccandun/images/stories/PRES/weiss.pdf) ****

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*Further Information:*

  - Draft
Agendaa href="http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/conference_agenda.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/conference_agen...>and
background info
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*There is no registration fee!*

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*For Registration follow these links: *doc
formata href="http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/registrationform.doc" target="_blank">http://www.glocha.info/iaai/images/stories/news2011/registrationfor...>or
online
registration
forma href="http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/online-registration" target="_blank">http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/online-registr...>
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*The conference will be video recorded and will be made available as
video-on-demand soon*

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*Links to related IAAI – GloCha activities:*

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*Global Citizens and Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Global Sustainable
Development Governance* – report from IAAI activities @ Annual Meeting of
Academic Council on the United Nations System 2011
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/84-reportiaaia...
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** **Presentation of "Rio 2012 Youth Song World Cup" Initiative @ UN High
Level Meeting on Youth, July 25th 2011, UN HQ NY – Report and Videos of
presentations
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/87-rioinitiati...
****** **IAAI Workshop "Rio+20 – A Window of Opportunity for a
Multi-Stakeholder Partnership on Global Commons Growth" at 64th UN DPI NGO
conference “Sustainable Societies; Responsive Citizens” Bonn/Germany,
Monday, 5 September, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
http://www.glocha.info/iaai/index.php/conference2011/89-iaaiworksho...
****