"Sustainable raw materials management in Europe – Fostering stakeholder dialogue to deliver on the future"

Closing conference of the COBALT FP7 project

23 – 24 March 2015, Brussels, Belgium

Programme & documentation

Cobalt Closing Conference draft agenda (PDF, 608 kB)
Speaker's biographies (PDF, 773 kB)

COBALT 8th policy brief (PDF, 481 kB)
D1.3: Closing conference report “Fostering stakeholder dialogue” (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Keynote presentations

COBALT project – stakeholder collaboration for sustainable raw materials management
Gerald Berger, WU Institute for Managing Sustainability

Future trends and challenges in the global supply of relevant raw material – the global resource nexus and economic implications
Prof. Dr. Raimund Bleischwitz, UCL
Prof. Dr. Vala Ragnarsdóttir, University of Iceland

Future needs in Europe for a sustainable raw material supply: issues and challenges along the value chain

Primary raw material extraction - challenges and needs
Lluis Fontboté, University of Geneva

Urban mining and recycling on global markets
Barbara Toorens, World Loop for WEEE collaboration
Christian Hagelüken, Umicore

Product and eco-design
Ursula Tischner, Econcept
Carsten Wachholz, EEB (Report: Delivering Resource-Efficient Products – how Ecodesign can drive a circular economy in Europe)

A general perspective on co-management in sustainability
Annica Sandström, LTU

Best practice examples for stakeholder co-management
Sylvie Fraboulet-Jussila, SITRA
Johanna Beate Wysluch, EITI Germany
César Luaces Frades, ANEFA

Results from the COBALT project – Stakeholder dialogues  and experiences with stakeholder collaboration
Andreas Endl, WU Institute for Managing Sustainability

COBALT Lessons Learnt
Manuela Gheoldus, BIO by deloitte and Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, Ecologic Institute

Photo gallery

Contacts

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions concerning this conference:

Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers - Coordinator Resource Efficiency
Susanne Langsdorf – Researcher
Chiara Mazzetti – Senior Event Manager
Elena von Sperber – Event Manager
Karl Lehmann – Junior Event Manager
Ecologic Institute
Email: conference@cobalt-fp7.eu

Andreas Endl
Gerald Berger
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Managing Sustainability
cobalt@cobalt-fp7.eu

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