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
Experiences with Participatory Tools and Mechanisms, Berlin, 9-10 April 2008
The 2nd ESDN workshop was hosted by the ESDN in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) & German Federal Environment Agency (UBA).
Whenever the governance of sustainable development (SD) is under discussion, the quest for involving different stakeholder groups (e.g. civil society organisations, business representatives, academia, sub-national levels, etc) in policy-making is imminent. According to Agenda 21, SD strategies should build on trustful partnerships and “the widest possible participation”. The rationale behind this quest is diverse, and so are the types and degrees of participation. One can distinguish between several types of participation: ad-hoc forms like internet consultations, workshops, round tables and dialogues, and institutionalised forms like committees, advisory groups and National Councils of Sustainable Development (NCSDs). Most of these types differ in terms of breadth of participation (involvement of all stakeholder groups or a selected few) and degrees of participation (informative, consultative and decisional). The main purpose of the workshop is to exchange information and experiences in applying different participatory processes and mechanisms.
Below please find a detailed documentation of the workshop:
Programme and documentation:
Presentations:
Gerald
Berger (ESDN Office): “Participation
in the context of NSDS processes” (PDF, 179 kB) - Anneke
von Raggamby (Ecologic): “Introduction
to Topics I-III” (PDF,
162 kB)
Participants:
Cascais 2007: Sustainable Development Indicators at the EU level
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