Different approaches - one goal
Transdisciplinary perspectives with NMBU's sustainability arenas
Once a year, NMBU's sustainability arenas invite to an open conference providing transdisciplinary insights on sustainability issues. Join us on March 14. Learn more about NMBU’s Sustainability Arenas and how they will strengthen competence development, teaching and innovative work across disciplines and sectors.
Program
Chair: Astrid Sinnes, Vice Rector of Sustainability
9.00 – 9.05 Welcome and opening of the conference, Astrid Sinnes, Vice Rector of Sustainability
9.05 – 9.15 Research, education and innovation for sustainability, Rector Curt Rice
9.15 – 11.00 NMBU’s Sustainability arenas
1. ProteinBar - higher protein production and utilization of Norwegian feed barley to reduce the reliance on imported protein sources in animal feed, prof. Morten Lillemo, Sustainability arena Smart Farming
2. How do we transform to sustainability? Frode Degvold, Sustainability arena TOWARDS
3. The role of microbes and insects in the fight against plastic pollution, Ronja Marlonsdotter Sandholm, PhD-candidate, Sustainability arena SmartPlast
4. Transforming the food systems – education for future food security (case presentation). Malin Kyrkjeeide Neteland and Milo Schulthes (students), Sustainability arena Sustainable Food Systems.
Break 15 min
5. Defining a safe and just operating space for the Norwegian economy – Thomas Røkås, NMBU graduate, Sustainability arena Planetary boundaries.
6. How sustainability is seeded and cultivated through the school garden, Håkon Mella, Sustainability arena GreenSmart.
11.00-11.30 Sustainable development – How can universities respond?
Keynote speaker Christine Spiten from Fearnley Securities, Investment Banking - Renewable & Cleantech and NMBU professor Elin Kubberød.
About Elin Kubberød:
Elin Kubberød is a professor and excellent teaching practitioner in entrepreneurship and innovation. Her research concentrates around the successful practices and strategies of start-ups and entrepreneurial businesses within the food sector, agritech and high-tech entrepreneurship. Elin is particularly interested in studying how smaller businesses leverage their networks and scarce resources and how they learn to develop a sustainable market for their innovations
About Christine Spiten:
In 2015, she started Blueye Robotics. As a senior advisor at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), she fought plastic in the ocean and developed solutions. Christine has been named by Forbes Magazine as '30 under 30 most important Tech Founders' and 'World's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018', 'Norway's 50 most important female tech founders' 2017 + 2018, and 'Top 10' Norwegian Female Tech-Entrepreneurs 2018'. In 2019, became "Guiding Star of the Year" in DN's "30 under 30" award. Spiten also holds a master's degree in industrial economics and management at NMBU.
11.30 – 12.00 Lunch and mingling
12.00 – 12.45 Parallel sessions
1. Tour in the landscape laboratory, arranged by Sustainability arena TOWARDS (will be held in norwegian).
2. Tour to the "soap bubble" greenery laboratory, arranged by Sustainability arena GreenSmart
3. Tour to the robotic lab and “NMBU robot event”, arranged by Sustainability arena Smart Farming
4. Enzyme discovery – see how we work to find new plastic degrading enzymes, stand by Sustainability arena SmartPlast
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