Sustainability
Graduate Program

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Sustainability (SIS)

SIS 2022 – Advances in Science, Technology and Social and Environmental Management

PPgSus will hold, on June 30th and July 1st, the SIS 2022 – Interdisciplinary Sustainability Seminar (the event will be online).

We invite and encourage students and program advisors to submit papers.

Submission deadline: March 28 to May 2

Complete works and expanded abstracts by PPgSus and undergraduate students will be accepted, always having the supervisor as a co-author.

We count on the collaboration of everyone participating in the activities and publicizing the lecture and the round table with external guests.

Schedule:

– June 30

9:00 am to 11:30 am – Opening Lecture: Environmental Research, Public Policies and Governance, with

Eduardo Trani (Subsecretary of Environment of the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Environment of the State of São Paulo) and mediation by Prof. Dr. Paulo Almeida (PPgSus).

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm – Round Table: Climate and Social and Environmental Justice, with Andréia Coutinho Louback (Humphrey Fellowship, University Of California, Davis), Carmen Araujo (ICCT – International Council on Clean Transportation) and mediation by Prof. Dr. Evandro Mateus Moretto (PPgSus).

– July 01

9 am to 12 pm – Conversation on Science, with Jonathan Fernandes Torres de Souza (Master at PPgSus), Marília C. Campos Garcia (Master and Doctor at PPgSus), Silvia Mandai (Master at PPgSus), Vitor Cano (Master and Doctor at PPgSus) and mediation by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Igari (PPgSus) and Post-Doctoral Student Silvia Stuchi Cruz (PPgSus).

SIS 2021

The EACH-USP Sustainability Graduate Program organized the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Seminar (SIS 2021) online, on July 1st and 2nd, 2021.

The 2021 edition of the SIS had as its theme “Local and Global Agendas for Sustainability: science, technology, management and society” and aimed to discuss scientific and technological knowledge, management instruments, policies, instruments and legal system that configure the agendas of sustainability.

Several topics were addressed, such as sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, water-sanitation, oceans, energy, sustainable cities, climate change, production-consumption-disposal and environmental diplomacy.

The event brought together researchers and graduate students in Environmental Management, Environmental Science and Technology who presented their work. There were panels and lectures with the participation of distinguished diplomats and specialists in Governance and Public Policies, and a workshop was also offered, with the objective of developing skills related to argumentation and production of scientific articles.

SIS 2020

The EACH-USP Sustainability Graduate Program organized the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Seminar (SIS 2020) online, on October 8 and 9, 2020.

The SIS 2020 edition had as its theme “Local and Global Agendas for Sustainability: approximations and distances” and aimed to discuss scientific and technological knowledge, policies, instruments and legal system that configure sustainability agendas. During the event, they were analyzed singularities, convergences, lags or distances between local and global agendas.

SIS 2019

​The Interdisciplinary Sustainability Seminar took place on December 2 and 3, 2019, in the Green Auditorium of the USP School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, and its theme was the production, dissemination and evaluation of scientific research. In particular, the role of sustainability indicators in monitoring policies, plans, programs and projects was discussed.

The objective of the event was to offer graduate students in the area of ​​Environmental Sciences: (i) conceptual and instrumental elements on indicators and sustainability assessment; (ii) and knowledge that makes it possible to develop skills related to the exposition, argumentation, discussion and production of scientific articles.