SDEWES Centre (The International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems), is a non-governmental scientific organization based at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Mission
SDEWES Centre is dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge-based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars. One of the main issues of the coming decades is to improve efficiencies by integrating various life supporting systems, using waste from one, as resource in other, and in exact moment when it is beneficial to all, integrating electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, industry, forestry and agriculture systems.
The Centre organizes courses, summer schools, public lectures, seminars and workshops in order to promote sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems and provides professional opinion on issues of sustainability and sustainability metrics. The Centre also organizes a series of international SDEWES conferences for scientists to discuss issues of sustainability of energy, water and environment system. Through these actions, SDEWES Centre aims to provide a research platform that will provide comprehensive R&D activities, assessment and consultation on the research subjects of sustainable development.
History
SDEWES started as a project co-funded by CORDIS under the FP5 – INCO 2 programme in 2002, when first Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems was organized. Partners in this project were University of Zagreb and Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon). After the organisation of three more conferences in 2003, 2005 and 2007, SDEWES Centre was established in 2009. Since then, eight more conferences were organized in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. As a separate regional event, the SEE SDEWES Conferences are held every two years, starting with 2014 in Ohrid. The 2nd SEE SDEWES Conference was held in Piran.
International Scientific Committee
The Committee is made of leading researchers (half of them are on the top 2% Stanford list of most influential scientists), and several are Editors-in-chief of leading journals (Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Renewable Energy, Applied Energy).
Maria da Graça Carvalho, Chair, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Neven Duić, Co-chair, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Co-Chair for the Central and Eastern Europe, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic Henrik Lund, Co-Chair for Northern Europe, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Ingo Stadler, Co-Chair for Western Europe, TH Köln, Cologne, Germany Poul Alberg Østergaard [da], Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Susana Boeykens, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Annamaria Buonomano, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Francesco Calise, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Raf Dewil, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Zvonimir Guzović, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Şiir KILKIŞ, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey Soteris Kalogirou, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Tarik Kupusović, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Natasha Markovska, Research Center for Energy and Sustainable Development - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Henning Meschede, University Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany Mousa Mohsen, Commission for Academic Accreditation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Adolfo Palombo, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy Antonio Piacentino, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Nikola Rajaković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Nikola Ružinski, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Eduardo SERRA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Daniel Rolph Schneider, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Rodney Stewart, Griffith University, Gold Coast City, Australia Krzysztof Urbaniec, Warsaw University of Technology, Plock, Poland Petar Sabev Varbanov, Brno University of Technology - VUT, Brno, Czech Republic Qiuwang Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China Kledi Xhaxhiu, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania Jinyue Yan, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Aleksander Zidanšek, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia