Routes towards Sustainability

Routes towards Sustainability is an international University Network founded on the 29^th of October 2012 by the University of Ferrara and other nine universities.  

Throughout the years Routes towards Sustainability has developed interdisciplinary research on sustainable development; activated teaching programmes at a graduate and postgraduate level, published books, papers and articles.

Symposia, General Meetings, Seminars, Workshops

• Sustainability, Research and Teaching after Rio. Challenges for the Future, First International Symposium, University of Ferrara, 29-30 October 2012.
• Planning Multi-Hazard Mitigation: Issues of Local And Regional Assessment and Management, Summer School, University of Ferrara, 19-27 September 2014.
• Multi-Hazard Mitigation: A Challenge For Sustainability and Safety, International Conference, University of Ferrara, 29-30 September 2014.
• Routing Sustainable Development Towards a Culture of Wellbeing, Second International Symposium, University of Ferrara, 1-2 October 2014.
• Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar – Cities, Health and Wellbeing, Third International Symposium, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil, 28 September-2 October 2015.
• The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar, University Institute for Higher Studies - IUSS, Ferrara, 4 December 2015.
• Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Sustentabilidad en los Hábitats, ITESO - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico, 19-20 September 2016.
• Communicating Sustainability. Strategies, Policies and Models of Behaviour, international and interdisciplinary intensive programme, University Institute for Higher Studies - IUSS, Ferrara, 23-27 May 2016.
• Beyond Environmental Issues, Second Regional Meeting, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Seccional Medellín, Colombia, 27-29 April 2017.
• Ecological Minds in the Humanities and in the Sciences, International Seminar, University of Ferrara, 22-23 February 2018.
• Policy Measures for Promoting Ecological Thinking, International Seminar, Universidade do Porto, 6 June 2018.
• Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability. Intersecting Multiple Footprints and the Environmental Humanities, Fourth International Symposium, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago and Villarrica, Chile, 10-14 December 2018.
• The KaleidoScope of Sustainability, Fifth International Symposium, University of Ferrara, 8 November 2019.

Publications

Paola Spinozzi and Massimiliano Mazzanti, eds, Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies, London and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Documents

• Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment and operation of ROUTES towards Sustainability - Network of Excellence
• Accession of a new party - Model Memorandum od Understanding
• Rules and regulation