Opening Session

OPENING SESSION / 9th October 2023 / 9:00 - 12:30
Chair / Presidente: Raffaello Cossu (IT)

9:00 – 10:30
Welcome addresses

• Raffaello Cossu, University of Padova (IT)
• Jurate Kumpiene, Luleå University of Technology (SE)
• Marion Huber Humer, BOKU University, Vienna (AT)
• Pinjing He, Tongji University (CN)
• Rainer Stegmann, Hamburg University of Technology (DE)
• William Clarke, IWWG President, University of Queensland (AU)

• Paolo Russo, Table of Rome (IT)
  
• Christian Solinas, President of the Sardinia Region (IT)

Opening Lecture:
Mine Tekman, Özyeğin University, Istanbul (TR) - Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremen (DE)
Anthropogenic debris in the Arctic: Pollution in a region far, far away...
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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30
Austria "Special guest country" Lecture:

• Johann Fellner, TU Wien (AT): Austria - Country information and contribution to modern strategies in waste management

Introductory Lectures:

• Raffaello Cossu, University of Padova (IT): Waste Management and Circular impact on Health and Environment
• Rainer Stegmann, Hamburg University of Technology (DE): The necessity for an Ecological Waste Management
• Jurate Kumpiene, Lulea University of Technology (SE): Main controversial / Hot issues in Sardinia 2023 that will be discussed in the Focus Sessions
• Pinjing He, Tongji University (CN): Waste & Emerging contaminants
• Marion Huber-Humer, BOKU University, Vienna (AT): Presentation of IWWG 2100 Vision Award and 2023 Winner