Promoting Social Change through Networking between Universities

International Spring Campus Conference at Freie Universität Berlin, April 9 to 13, 2018. No 050/2018 from Mar 15, 2018 "Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower" is the theme of this year's Spring Campus Conference, the third one to be held by the University Alliance for Sustainability at Freie Universität Berlin. From April 9 to 13, 2018, about 120 researchers and administrative staff members from all over the world will address the issue of how universities can contribute toward making society more sustainable. The conference language will be English. Interested parties can register until March 26, 2018. Under the auspices of the University Alliance for Sustainability (UAS), Freie Universität Berlin collaborates with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), the University of British Columbia (Canada), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and Peking University (China) on working out concepts, teaching formats, and research projects. The aim is to focus on the abstract topic of sustainability as a cross-cutting theme in research, teaching, and campus management.