UniPID-FinCEAL Seminar on Cooperation Across Borders - Comprehensive Responses To Transecting Global Challenges?

As part of the FinCEAL project, UniPID will convene a two-day seminar on 12th - 13th November, 2014 at Helsinki Congress Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5 A to discuss and reconsider the different cross-cutting issues of international research, innovation and development cooperation addressing global challenges. This seminar aims to consider how international and intersectoral partnerships, interdisciplinary approaches and cross-cutting themes have been and should be taken into account and implemented in the Finnish response to global challenges through the following questions:

1.      What is the role of the different actors (policy makers, civil society organizations, private sector and academia) and how have these actors in Finland been involved in addressing global challenges?
2.      'Good on paper, difficult in practice' – what challenges does interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation face?
3.      What kinds of practices have been shown to strengthen cross-sectoral cooperation and interdisciplinarity in dealing with global challenges? How can successful practices be scaled up to a global level?
4.      How are global challenges interrelated? What new perspectives arise when this interrelation is addressed? How can these overlapping areas best be tackled?

The event is free of charge but registration is required by November 3rd at: http://goo.gl/forms/MMY3Hmo4w7