The 1st International Conference on Urban Health and Sustainability, under the title ‘The White Tower Forum on Urban Health and Sustainability’ marks the beginning of an open dialogue with society and its stakeholders, with the main theme of promoting public health and sustainability in cities.
The dialogue forum will be repeated on an annual basis, raising issues related to the improvement of life in cities, but also the transformation of society itself, and is organized within the framework of the URBANOME project and the Urban Health Cluster (UHC).
The 1st Conference will be held hybrid (in person and online) on June 29 and 30 at the Emilios Riadis Hall, at TIF HELEXPO, and is entitled: “The post-COVID 19 era. Healthy, Sustainable Cities: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects”
Sustainability: The “road map” of society.
The Conference is organized by the Laboratory of Environmental Engineering-Research Structure HERACLES, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The laboratory Director and URBANOME Coordinator, Professor Demosthenes Sarigiannis, comments that “the event’s goal is to highlight those concepts that foster the transformation of our cities so that they can promote public health and wellbeing, while they adopt the urban sustainability in their core both in Greece and across Europe.” He also notes that, “sustainability is the roadmap we have to guide ourselves and determine our future as a society, as well as to provide an enhanced quality of life for future generations as a legacy. It is about protecting the environment, our work, our culture, and even how we intend to manage information. Because information is an important renewable resource. The issues of digitization and the necessary digital skills in a healthy and sustainable city, which we are shaping, are an important legacy for the new generation and at the same time a guarantee for the older ones. And this is exactly what is at stake: not only to live better but to bequeath a better fate to the next generation, to our children.”
