Circular Conference Toolkit. Case study ERSCP 2019
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Abstract
Conference and events are fully integrated in the cities’ economic activity. They are
highly valued as catalyst and place marketers, promoting tourism, talent-attraction,
and prestige of the city. Considering sustainability, they can make critical choices
regarding location, accessibility, mobility options, catering, materials selection, and
power supply to have a positive influence not only on the local environment, but also
to avoid embodied impacts in the form of CO2 emissions, land and water use.
Due to the rapid rising of this activity, the general aim of this thesis is to design the
“Circular Conference Toolkit” to be used as a guide to facilitate and provide tools for
organizing more sustainable conferences and events. The Circular Conference Toolkit
works to lower carbon emissions (carbon neutrality), to reduce and recirculate waste
(towards zero waste), and to increase sustainability awareness amongst the
participants (sustainable consumption).
Following the Action-Research methodology, this thesis takes the 19th ERSCP
Conference (15-18 October 2019, UPC, Barcelona) as case study to test the Circular
Conference Toolkit. The conference participants take part in all the phases of the
process. From asking them ideas and expectations to testing the Circular Conference
Toolkit during the conference and finally making a post-event evaluation.
The process is divided in three cycles; the first one is the research phase, it explores
the state of the art of sustainable and "circular" events. The second cycle develops the
case study -ERSCP 19-. Different sections compose it with a variety of methodologies
depending on each approach: Stakeholders Analysis, UPC location Analysis,
Participants brainstorming, Co-creation with students´ group and a Co-Decision
Matrix Workshop. The third Cycle is the post-conference evaluation. It presents an
assessment of the sustainable initiatives applied during the ERSCP 19 Conference.
The result is the Circular Conference Toolkit, a set of 37 simple guidelines divided by
topics and areas of action. It represents an open process of collaboration and
reflection where the conference participants, the expertise committee, students and
providers are all included. The future aim is to implement it to more conferences at
UPC, and also, to scale it to other conference’s scenarios.
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Descripció
Premi UPC d’Economia Circular, accèssit al millor Treball de Fi de Màster (2020). El jurat n'ha reconegut “l'aportació de tipus incremental que fa cap a un nou model sistèmic-circular d’organització d’esdeveniments sostenibles”. El premi es va lliurar en el decurs de la 5a Jornada UPC Recircula, realitzada en format virtual a la universitat el 24 de novembre de 2020
TitulacióMÀSTER UNIVERSITARI EN CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA DE LA SOSTENIBILITAT (Pla 2013)
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