ESDN Workshops

Since 2007, the ESDN is organizing thematic workshops in order to facilitate informal exchange of standpoints and experiences between the ESDN Members. This section of the website provides a one-stop-shop documentation of all ESDN Workshops so far. Please click on one of the workshops for more details:

Madrid 2010: From Green Growth towards a Sustainable Economy?

Brussels 2009: New Driver for Sustainable Development Strategies - The Power of Smart Linkages

Brussels 2008: Post-2010: The Future of the EU SDS and its Interface with the Lisbon Process

Berlin 2008: Experiences with Participatory Tools and Mechanisms

Sustainable Development Indicators at the EU level, Cascais, 29-30 November 2007

The 1st ESDN Workshop was hosted by the ESDN in cooperation with the Portuguese EU Presidency. It took place in Cascais, a seaport in close proximity to Lisbon. The key purpose of the workshop was to facilitate an informal exchange of standpoints and experiences on sustainable development indicators (SDIs) at the EU level among different groups of public administrators who approach and work with SDIs in different ways. The main objective was to discuss governance related aspects of SDIs. Methodological challenges in developing and applying SDIs were explicitly excluded from the workshop.

Below you find a comprehensive documentation of the event.

Programme and documentation

• Workshop Programme (PDF, 106 kB)

• Workshop Outline (PDF, 139 kB)

• The following report summarises the presentations and discussions of the event:
  Workshop Report (PDF, 119 kB)

• The following Annex to the documentation contains all statements the working groups elaborated:
  Statements Working Group 1 (PDF, 25 kB)
  Statements Working Group 2 (PDF, 32 kB)
  Statements Working Group 3 (PDF, 24 kB)

Presentations

• Martin Ahbe (Secretariat-General of the European Commission): "Sustainable Development Indicators on European level: Where is the value-added?" (PDF, 35 kB)
• Pascal Wolff (Eurostat): "EU Sustainable Development Indicators: Monitoring the Sustainable Development Strategy" (PDF, 502 kB)
• Markus Hametner (ESDN Office): "Empirical findings on links between objectives and indicators on the EU and national levels" (PDF, 170 kB)

Participants

• List of Participants (PDF, 12 kB)