Author Archives: Charlotte Gardini
Nominations for the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award are open!
Do you know someone contributing towards sustainability and who deserves recognition? Nominations for the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award are now open! Find out a bit more about these awards and how to nominate someone below! Why the World Sustainability Awards? From the beginning of his compound preservation project, Dr. Shu-Kun […]
More InfoMDPI’s new commenting and endorsement system: the academic ‘likes’ are now available
Near the end of September, MDPI released a new functionality: the commenting and endorsement system. It allows researchers to endorse and recommend articles among each other – enabling ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ to infiltrate the academic sphere. Why an endorsement system? The commenting and endorsement system stems from the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), […]
More Info#PlantATreeForSDG Challenge: Kicking off the countdown to the 1st World Sustainability Week in style
27 September 2019 marked the kick-off to the countdown of the 1st World Sustainability Week (WSW). For this occasion, Matthias Burkhalter (who initiated the idea) and the two chairs of WSW, Professor Max Bergman and Professor Ed Constable, came together with Dr Heiner Vischer, President of Basel’s Grand Council, to plant a 20-year-old oak tree […]
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