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Goals and Motivation

The main goal of the workshop is to address major concerns for the future of ecological systems and economic policy in a very populated world, characterized by major social and economic disparities. In this context it is intended to generate a framework for understanding and formulation of actions meant to develop feasible solutions, taking into account a variety of institutional, social and international perspectives.

The workshop covers the following thematic directions:

sustainable industrial production and consumption, process integration
integrated management of waste throughout the whole lifecycle, in order to reduce the environmental impact
clean technologies in correlation with the best available techniques
integration of pollution prevention alternatives with economic and social issues in industrial systems
integrated management of water resources, treatment and management of industrial and municipal effluents
biotechnology in environmental protection and sustainable industrial systems
climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and alternative energy
education and knowledge, environmental policy, environmental awareness and attitudes in the context of sustainable development of a knowledge society.

In this context, invited plenary key-lectures, as well as invited key-lectures within three roundtables will be presented. Each roundtable will begin with a presentation held by a PhD student, who prepared and defends her thesis in accordance with the roundtable topic, and then, the keynote speakers and the other participants will discuss on the roundtable and workshop topics (even asking question to the PhD student).

Also, it will be revealed and analyzed the contribution of Environmental Engineering and Management Journal edited by the Department of Environmental Engineering and Management of the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi and that of the series of the International Conferences on Environmental Engineering and Management, (both celebrating 10 years after their launch in 2002), to advances in environmental engineering, biotechnology and environmental management in the context of a knowledge based sustainable economy.

Therefore, the lectures presented by invited keynote speakers, together with discussions, analyzes and proposed roundtables to be held in the workshop with the active participation of doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and students will reveal the worldwide latest research and achievements, as well as on European, regional and national levels, considering some changes in the current model of development and consumption. Also, all these involvements will highlight the existing link between development and knowledge and will make public the actual and potential contribution of Romanian researchers to develop knowledge-based society.

This scientific framework should motivate and demonstrate that science and technology can provide the necessary support to make decisions more efficiently in the use of resources, minimize material and energy flows to and from the environment and closing of substance cycles and energy.

Another objective of the workshop is to highlight the important role of stakeholders in maintaining and improvement of the quality of the anthropogenic global system in bi-univocal relationships with the natural environment in a harmonious concert, in which academia, research poles and actors in the technical-economic system must cooperate to develop and apply the best available techniques in production systems and services. In this generous context, young researchers: students, PhD students, postdocs can find a fertile training ground for the implementation of sustainable development principles, to monitor the progress of an economic system based on knowledge.