7th I.S.L.E. Meeting: WP4 Professionalisation ISLE Fair & Seminar “Sustainable Practices & Innovation”

1. Workpackage 4
- Professionalisation ISLE Fair &
Seminar “Sustainable Practices &
Innovation”
- QUESTIONNAIRE
8th and 9th of November 2011 at the Pavilhão de
Exposições. Instituto Superior de Agronomia,
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

2. Workpackage 4
Professionalisation ISLE Fair & Seminar
“Sustainable Practices & Innovation”
8th and 9th of November 2011 at the Pavilhão de
Exposições. Instituto Superior de Agronomia,
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

3. Aims of the ISLE
Professionalisation Fair & Seminar
“Sustainable Practices & Innovation”
The “Sustainable Practices & Innovation” professionalization Fair was
one of the activities of the WP4 of ISLE network and aimed:
• To join the forerunners on SD in professional practice in Life
Sciences from the different European countries.
• To exhibit innovative products, systems and services of European
companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations
aimed at enhancing SD.
• To contribute to the dialogue clarifying the needs of the labour
market on SD competences of our graduates, in the near future, in
order to adjust Higher Education programmes.

4. • The ISLE Fair had 41 stands from 25 different countries
• The total of registered participants on the ISLE Fair &
Seminar was 91 from 29 different countries
• The number of registered ISLE’s partners on the ISLE Fair &
Seminar was 66,
– from 36 ISLE’s partners and
– from 28 different countries.
The number of registered participants outside the ISLE’s Consortium
was 25 from 7 different countries
We estimate that more than 250 people visited the Fair and about 150
people attended the Seminar.

5. FAIR
The topics of the Fair stands were:
- Education and research in SD (27 stands, 3 outside of consortium)
- Innovative Environmental Technologies (energy / water / waste) (2 stands, 1
outside consortium)
- Sustainable Agriculture /Forestry (7 stands, 4 outside consortium)
- Nature Conservation and Agrotourism & Ecotourism (2 stands, 1 outside
consortium)
3 Institutional stands
- ISLE
- ISA/UTL, Portugal
- INOVISA/Rede INOVAR, Portugal
A “brokerage” session between participants allowed for numerous exchanges
and discussions.

6. Fair Plan

7. Seminar
The topics of the Seminar speeches were:
Food Technology / Procurements
- Sustainability and public sector food procurement in education
Mark Stein, Salford University, UK
- Sustainable Practices & Innovation in Wine Sector: LIFE HAproWINE
Soledad Gómez González, Centro Tecnológico Miranda de Ebro (CTME), Spain
Trade fair
- PROVE - Promoting and selling
José Diogo, Agronomist Engineering at ADREPES, Portugal
Didactics
- Green pedagogics as a skill for the implementation of sustainable development in the field of
agriculture and the environment
Christine Wogowitsch, Vice rector, Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik, Austria
Green Jobs
- What kind of Knowledge, Skills and Competencies does a Sustainable Economy need? - An Industrial Perspective
Istvan Kenyeres, President & CEO of Organica Technologies, Inc., Hungary
- The Noudar Nature Park
Bárbara Pinto, Director of the Parque Noudar, Susana Rosa, Biologist, EDIA, Portugal
Corporate Social Responsibility
- The business approach to Corporate Social Responsability
Eurico Sousa, Executive Director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD Portugal), Portugal
• Round table about the topic „NEEDS OF THE LABOUR MARKET IN RELATION WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT“

8. Some comments about the Fair and Seminar
• Lower attendance than the expected
• Lower students participation than the expected
• As Vassilis Protonotarios said it was a nice
opportunity for ISLE project partners to see what
the rest of the partners are up to and learn more
about their activities… as well as the round table
discussion were really interesting, focused and
really close to ISLE project.