World Forum of Resource Universities for Sustainability

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The World Forum of resources Universities for Sustainability (World Forum of Universities of Resources on Sustainability, WFURS) is an association of international resources universities . It pursues the goal of anchoring the principle of sustainable development in research and training at universities in the raw materials sector internationally. A total of 100 member universities from 56 countries have joined the World Forum of Resource Universities for Sustainability since it was founded in 2012. The office of the world forum is located at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg .

The world forum is led by a management body with members from all continents. At the last meeting of the World Forum of Resource Universities in Akita, Japan, Vladimir Stefanowitsch Litvinenko, Rector of the Mining University of St. Petersburg , was confirmed as president for another year. Carsten Drebenstedt , mining professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, will remain the first general secretary for another four years. Akira Imai from Akita University in Japan is the treasurer.

task

The World Forum of Resource Universities for Sustainability was founded in Freiberg in 2012 by the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the St. Petersburg Mining University. The members want to promote sustainable development in research and teaching worldwide. They also want to create a new awareness of raw materials in society, business, science and politics.

The WFURS sees itself as a platform. The member universities cooperate in the fields of science and technology and at the same time exchange teaching content with one another in terms of mining and environmental protection. The mining sciences are supplemented by economics, environmental and social sciences. The World Forum of Resource Universities thus follows an interdisciplinary approach. Together they want to define training standards, develop new international courses on sustainable raw material processes and advance training and further education for highly qualified young scientists on a global scale. This new training content should be designed on the one hand and established internationally at the same time.

Against the background of the rapidly increasing global demand for raw materials, new dimensions of the negative impact on the environment, society and the global economy are becoming apparent. The resource universities have an international responsibility to enforce the principle of sustainable development in research and training along the entire raw material value chain.

Members

The new WFURS members from 2014:

  1. Taita Taveta University College, Voi, Kenya
  2. Technical University of Tbilisi, Georgia
  3. Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
  4. University of Aden, Yemen
  5. Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Argentina
  6. Université de Liège, Belgium
  7. Donbass State Technical University, Ukraine

history

Foundation in Freiberg

On June 11, 2012, representatives of 50 international resource universities from 39 countries signed a declaration on sustainable raw material security at the TU Bergakademie in Freiberg, Saxony. The forum meets every year at one of the member universities.

1st World Forum in Trondheim

In 2013, the member universities met for their first regular conference in Trondheim, Norway. Here statutes and statutes of the world forum were adopted and the content was agreed.

2nd World Forum in Leoben

The second world forum took place in October 2014 in Leoben, Austria. The contents of the world forum were discussed in working groups and the next steps determined. The lectures mainly dealt with teaching in the raw materials area, new methods and the state of the art. Using the example of the mining region of Leoben, the participants learned how mining can be carried out economically and sustainably despite the relatively low ore content.

3rd World Forum in Akita

The third world forum took place in September 2015 in Akita, Japan. The topic was sustainable development in research and training at universities in the raw materials sector. During a professional excursion to a mine, a hut was visited that was run from 1873 by the Freiberg graduate of the Bergakademie, the cosmopolitan Curt Adolph Netto , who campaigned for the connection between Europe and Asia. The Mining University of St. Petersburg was confirmed as the host of the 4th General Assembly in 2016. After three years Bernd Meyer handed over the presidency of the World Forum to Litvinenko in St. Petersburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100th University Joined - 4th World Forum of Resource Universities for Sustainability in Japan. On: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft , October 24, 2014. Accessed November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.worldforum-sustainability.org
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  7. ↑ http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/wissen/universitaeten-aus-aller-welt-planen-die-rohstoffwende-1631327.html
  8. ↑ List with all members
  9. ↑ http://tu-freiberg.de/presse/ueber-50-ressourcenuniversitaeten-beschliessen-gruendung-eines-weltforums-fuer-nachhaltigkeit
  10. ↑ http://www.freipresse.de/LOKALES/MITTELSACHSEN/FREIBERG/Weltforum-erhaelt-Satzung-artikel8612813.php
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  13. ↑ http://tu-freiberg.de/presse/3-trägererversammlung-des-weltforums-der-ressourcenuniversitaeten-fuer-nachhaltigkeit-in-ja