Crossing boundaries for a healthy and sustainable future

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Wednesday, 19 April 2023
13:30 to 17:00 hrs
Walk in from 12:30 hrs & drinks afterwards
Wageningen Campus, Omnia
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Crossing boundaries for a healthy and sustainable future

The impact of human activity on the natural world is also affecting humanity itself: climate change, pollution and depletion of natural resources change our living conditions and have effect on our health. Science and technology play a key role in creating the future we want for our planet and its inhabitants. In order to speed up progress we need to bring disciplinary fields together and to join our forces.

At our conference/ conference of our alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht (EWUU) Crossing boundaries for a healthy and sustainable future on 19 April 2023, we will share our vision on how science can contribute to planetary health. We do this by bringing together our expertise on preventive health and circular society and by challenging younger generations to play a leading role in creating the future. TU/e, WUR, UU and UMC Utrecht invite you to help shape our efforts to find solutions to these complex issues.

Keynote speakers Marianne Geleijnse and Marko Hekkert

Highlights of our programme (13.30 – 17.00)

• Keynote A multifaceted approach to health by Marianne Geleijnse, Vice President of the Dutch Health Council and Professor at WUR
• Keynote Towards a Circular Economy in 2050 by Marko Hekkert, Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and Professor at UU
• Our vision and plans on collaboration in Preventive Health and Circular Society
• Innovation in education: what do research and every day practice teach us?
• The potential of Living Technologies
• Let’s get unusual!
• Our workshops offer you the opportunity to contribute your perspective and help form new cross-connections. Please choose the workshop you would like to attend and register.

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