promoting sustainable development; and creating capabilities for managing international crises. In the US the term‘converging technologies'was used first at a 2001 workshop organized by the US National science Foundation and the US Departmeen of Commerce entitled‘Converging Technologiie for Improving Human Performance'.
These grand challenges include the dynamics of demograpphic (ageing and migration), food supply, environmentta sustainability, climate change, decarbonised economic systems, poverty, terrorism, not to mention the continuing fallout from the long-running‘global financial crisis':
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UN Commission on Sustainable development, Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012. ICSU has been using foresight practices for some time to determine research priorities (Teixeira et al. 2002)
By 2031 global science (natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and humanities) has played a significant role in helping to build a more sustainable world by working with society to address the major challenges associated with sustainable development.
This fund is for collaborative international projects with a focus on global sustainability challenges. Scientific integrity helps ensure public trust:
ICSU is seen as an independent platform able to bring together funders and the science community to co-design programmes, building on the success of the Earth System Sustainability Initiative, 2012 22.
and to ensure their longer-term sustainability. ICSU also launched a high-profile prize scheme in 2015 to recognise achievement by early career researchers working in interdisciplinary research and communication.
Furthermore, as part of its Initiative On earth System Sustainability, 2012 22, ICSU worked with funding agencies to encourage the development of internatioona courses targeted at developing the ability of young researchers to conduct interdisciplinary research.
'speech delivered at the conferrenc‘Sustainable development UK 09',held London, 19 march 2009. Bo rjeson, L.,Ho jer, M.,Dreborg, K.,Ekvall, T. and Finnveden, G. 2006)‘ Scenario types and techniques:
2010) Earth System Science for Global sustainability: The Grand challenges. Paris: International council for science..(2011a) ICSU Strategic Plan II, 2012 2017.
With regard to a set of pressing‘grand challennges such as climate change, an aging population, depletiio of mineral resources or shortages of food and water, roadmapping can identify latent societal demand, for example, in the context of sustainability.
Building owners and users do not have the same incentives to improve building performmanc in relation to, for example, energy efficiency (World Business Council for Sustainable development 2009.
Sustainability, in an integrative sense combining issues of economic growth, social progress, and environmennta protection, is a rising topic in the emerging markets of the Victorian construction industry.
first, to outline an increasingly pivotal nexus of ICT, environmennta sustainability and human actions; and secondly, to provide an assessment of this nexus in the context of VTT's strategy.
In the roadmap, ICT for environmental sustainability is defined as the use of ICT for optimising societal activities
in order to improve environmental sustainability (Ahola et al. 2010). The case example consists of a transformation roadmap (see Fig. 4)
In the long term, the small-scale environmennta sustainability services offered to individual consummer can be scaled up to large-scale systems.
Ahola, J.,Ahlqvist, T.,Ermes, M.,Myllyoja, J. and Savola, J. 2010) ICT for Environmental sustainability.
World Business Council for Sustainable development. 2009) Energy efficiency in Buildings. Transforming the Market. Geneva: World Business Council for Sustainable development.
Weber, M.,Kubeczko, K.,Kaufmann, A. and Grunewald, B. 2009)‘ Trade-offs between policy impacts of future-oriented analysis:
and gap analysis. The sustainability of the FPU is intended to be achieved by having the SCAR Collaborative Working group Animal Health
urban megatrends, urban networks and connectiivity and the socio-ecological sustainability of city systems. Expected outcomes of the pilot call include:
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and other major diseases Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability Target 9 Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies
of Action for the Sustainable development of Small Island Developing States and 22nd General assembly provisions) Target 15 Deal comprehensively with debt problems of developing countries through national and
Through the collaborative and transdisciplinary problem-solving approach, an awareness of the sustainability aspects was raised within Fraunhofer.
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