Partners

The Centre de Recherche, d'Etudes et de Documentation (CRED) is the Research Centre of the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA); a Business School training the future business leaders and executives of Lebanon and the Middle East. CRED's mission is to understand and explain the opportunities for Lebanese and regional businesses to facilitate their adaptation to the changes of the contemporary world. It is in this context that the CRED examines sustainable development, entrepreneurship and other issues affecting the evolution of contemporary cities.

E3-Modelling (E3M) is a knowledge-based company created as a spin-off of modelling and economic research performed over many years in E3MLab. E3-Modelling is specialized in the development of complex models and carries out impact assessment studies focusing in the fields of economy, energy and the environment as well as markets, for 36 countries in Europe, G-20, MENA countries, the Russian Federation and the emerging economies globally. E3M provides consultancy services based on the use of complex large-scale applied mathematical models ranging from the GEM-E3, a computable general equilibrium  model, the European energy system model PRIMES, the PRIMES-TREMOVE Transport model and the global stochastic energy model PROMETHEUS, to sector-specific models on energy efficiency in buildings, industrial sector and the renewables.

UNIVE has an outstanding international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Advanced research is developed in 8 departments and 20 interdisciplinary centers among which is the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT, www.ecltech.org). ECLT is dedicated to the study and creation of a new science associated with technologies which exhibit life-like characteristics, such as self-organization, adaptability, capacity to evolve and react to environmental stimuli, etc. The research, currently focused in the fields of bio-nano-technology, sustainability, innovation and ICT, is developed in collaboration with scientists belonging to the 15 European Universities and international Research Centres which are members of ECLT.  The Centre hosts several types of activities, including seminars, medium- and long-term individual research visits, workshops with 10-40 people attending, conferences with attendance of 40-100 people, and public lectures. The Centre is also an international meeting point for the development both of basic research and the creation of new technologies for the productive sector and the transfer of these technologies to various sectors such as pharmaceutics, medicine and the environment.

The  Global  Green  Growth  Institute  (GGGI)  is  an  international  organization  dedicated  to  supporting and  promoting  strong,  inclusive  and  sustainable  economic  growth  in developing  countries  and emerging economies. Established in 2012, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, GGGI is accelerating the transition toward a new model of economic growth – green growth – founded on principles of social inclusivity and environmental sustainability. GGGI  works  with  developing  and  emerging  countries  to  design  and  deliver  programs  and  services that demonstrate new pathways to pro-poor economic growth. GGGI supports stakeholders through two  complementary  and  integrated  workstreams –  Green  Growth  Planning  &  Implementation  and Knowledge  Solutions –  that  deliver  comprehensive  products  and  services  designed  to  assist  in developing, financing and mainstreaming green growth in national economic development plans. GGGI,  together  with  the  Organisation  for  Economic  Co-operation  and  Development  (OECD),  the United  Nations  Environment  Programme  (UNEP)  and  the  World  Bank  founded  the  Green  Growth Knowledge  Platform  (GGKP)  in  2012.  The  GGKP  is  a  global  partnership,  drawing  together  over  40 international  organisations  to  identify  and  address  major  knowledge  gaps  in  green  growth  theory and practice.  

Institute of Environmental Sciences is a research and graduate institute in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Bogazici University is one of the leading higher education and research institutions in Turkey. It involves more than 10000 students and 800 academic staff, of which about 420 are full time faculty members with doctorate degrees. The university has achieved considerable success in the European Commission’s FP6 and FP7 programs. The Institute of Environmental Sciences is an interdisciplinary establishment founded in 1982 and offers graduate studies in M.S. and Ph.D. levels in the fields of Environmental Sciences and Technology. The goal of the institute is to prepare professional environmental scientists, engineers and researchers, who can deal with the complexities of environmental problems, propose scientifically and economically meaningful solutions, develop recommendations for sound policies, and devise means for policy implementation.  The Institute emphasizes the importance of appropriate environmental technologies, intending to act as a leader institution for developing countries.

The Ground Up Association is a Swiss-based non-profit that pursues a triple objective: i) advance and promote research in the field of social and environmental entrepreneurship; ii) contribute to public good projects that have a measurable environmental and/or social impact; iii) advance the study and understanding of the green and social local economy.  To reach this goal, The Ground Up Association closely collaborates with The Ground Up Project SA, a Swiss based enterprise leading data aggregator for small-scale projects under $10M with an environmental impact. As a leading platform, Group_Up achieves scale through their proprietary Value Compass, which analyzes investment potentials of small environmental impact projects. Ground_Up uses strategic partnerships, user-generated content, and big data to provide easy access to standardized, relevant, trustworthy information about projects to private and public finance organizations, technology providers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, donor governments and other stakeholders.

The Paris School of Economics (EEP-PSE) was born in December 2006 through the union of the economic departments of six leading Parisian research institutions: The CNRS, the EHESS, the Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, the ENS, the INRA, and the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. At the forefront in many different Economic domains, the School proposes selective teaching programmes from M1 to PhD. PSE also develops strong links between different economic knowledge “users”: academics, institutions and private stakeholders.

The sister institutes, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR) and UCL Energy Institute (UCL-Energy), are located in The Bartlett, the internationally renowned Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL. UCL ISR and UCL-Energy have a broad range of expertise in policy, resource efficiency, energy system and sustainability analysis, which have been widely used to support policy making. With research projects to a value of more than £15 million, including five current FP7 projects (POLFREE, EMInInn, CECILIA2050, ADVANCE and Carbon-CAP) the twin institutes have fast become one of the centres of excellence in energy and sustainability research in the UK. Researchers from the Institutes feed into government policy at all levels, through Ministerial Advisory Panels and Expert Task Forces at UK level, projects, conferences, seminars and workshops for different DGs of the European Commission, and membership of UNEP’s International Resource Panel globally.