ProgrammeEPP2015

ECONOMY, PEOPLE & PLANET 2015 PROGRAMME SATURDAY 9.00-10.00: Check in Meet the people from Cooperide when they start their trip on bicycle from Copenhagen to COP21 in Paris. 10.00-10.15 Welcome by compere Helene Albinus Søgaard 10.15-10.45 Ole Bjerg – Debt Drive and the Compulsion for Economic Growth PhD in Sociology and Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His research currently revolves around the question: What is money? 10.45-11.00 Break 11.00-11.50 Siward Zomer - Energy Cooperatives Creating a Better Social Economy in Seven Steps Chairman of ODE Decentraal and board member of REScoop.eu, the Dutch and European federation of groups of citizens and cooperatives for renewable energy. Keynote speaker on the topic Exploring Cooperatives. 11.50-12.10 Entertainment 12.10-13.10 Lunch’n’Talk The passive version of the walk’n’talk. We don’t want you to walk while eating lunch, however, we would like to invite you to talk about how our actions can push the transition. Bon appetite! 13.10-14.00 Stacco Trancoso – Commons Transitions: A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Societal Change Co-founder of the P2P translation collective “Guerrilla Translation“, as well as part of the development team for the P2P Foundation and one of the editors for the P2P Foundation blog. Keynote speaker on the topic Exploring Peer-to-Peer Dynamics. 14.00-14.15 Quizzing on Transition 14.15-16.00 Transition Treasure Hunt: Follow the clues to find your way to the three locations: · Torchbearers presenting the most innovative Danish transition projects · Dating-wall and transition matches · 7 minutes of fame! Share your thoughts about transition for your peers in groups of three. 16.00-16.15 Break 16.15-17.00 Leander Bindewald – Money as a Social Technology: Community Currency Tools for Sustainability Based at the University of Cumbria, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability. Keynote speaker on the topic Exploring Complementary Currencies. SUNDAY 09.30-10.00 Morning Coffee and Lounge 10.15-11.45 Workshops round 1 11.45-13.00 Lunch 13.00-13-15 Improvisation theatre by CBS Improv Theatre 13.15-14.00 Dickson Despommier – Urban Agriculture and the Vertical Farm: Feeding the City Conducted laboratory-based biomedical research for 28 years at Columbia University, now Emeritus Professor at Columbia University and Adjunct Professor at Fordham University. 14.00-15.30 Workshops round 2 15.30-15.45 Break 15.45-16.30 Tor Nørretranders - It’s a Kind Kind of World The future of food, water and energy and the role of communities, co-creation and communities. Tor has written the bestseller The Generous Man. 16.30-16.40 Thank you for participating in EPP2015!
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