2019 - 2020 RAUN CONFERENCE
Environmental and Socioeconomic Sustainability: How to Create Lasting Impacts

Date: 15 - 16 January 2020
Venue: Vienna International Centre (VIC)
In cooperation with

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 15 January 2020, Open Event
Venue: Vienna International Centre, Multimedia Room (G-Building, 5th floor)
 Time
Programme
08:30 – 09:00
Arrival and registration at the Vienna International Centre (Gate 1)
09:00 – 10:00
UN75: The Role of Global Cooperation in Building the Future we Want
Jean-Luc Lemahieu, UNODC
10:00 – 11:30
Panel 1 Partnerships for Sustainable Development Goals
Chair: Billy Batware, UNODC

Achieving Sustainable Partnership in the UN: Cooperation among UN Organizations in the Framework of the SDGs
Marcel Seifert, Tobias Schnitzler, Carolina Tataje Gonzales, RAUN

​Private Sector and Civil Society Partnerships against Corruption in Africa: Assessing the Medium- and Long-Term Socio-Economic Impact of the UNODC Civil Society Team’s Small Grants Scheme
Hamza Amin, Lukács Hayes, Aizhamal Rakhmetova, RAUN
11:30 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 13:00
Panel 2 Ensuring water security – Challenges and prospects
Chair: Marc Carillet, OSCE

Investigating Conflicts between Gold Mining and Water Protection by Remote Sensing Imagery
Samuel Asante, Lukas Graf, Anna Kovács-Győri RAUN

The gendered impacts of climate change: The Jordan River Basin region and water scarcity
Elise Andrew, Lucia Palmioli, Carolina Rodrigues Borges, RAUN
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45
Panel 3 Innovations for sustainable agriculture
Chair: Riccardo Savigliano, UNIDO

Towards Resilient Agricultural Development: Bottlenecks to the Adoption of Bioeconomy in sub-Saharan Africa
Giulia Antonucci, Richard Nieschalk, Ingrid Setz, RAUN

Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate-Smart Agriculture
Alice Piccolo, Kathrin Raunig, RAUN
15:45 – 16:15​
Break
16:15 – 17:30​
Panel 4 Policy making for environmental sustainability
Chair: Kolade Esan, UNIDO

​The Phantom Menace: Bridging the Regulatory Gap for Sustainable Biogas
Alessandro Monti, Daniel Oderinde, Maria Polugodina, RAUN

​Trade Policies and Environmentally Sustainable Farming
Constanze Fetting, Giuliana Ghia, Josephine Weissmann, RAUN​
Thursday 16 January 2020, Open Event
Venue: Vienna International Centre, Multimedia Room (G-Building, 5th floor)
 Time
Programme
08:30 – 09:00
Arrival and registration at the Vienna International Centre (Gate 1)
09:15 – 10:00
Welcome remarks
H.E. Ambassador Alessandro Azzoni, Permanent Mission of Italy to the OSCE
10:00 – 11:15
Panel 5 Innovations for Sustainable Development
Chair: Monika Fröhler, Ban Ki Moon Center for Global Citizens

Increasing Trade Capacities of Developing Country SMEs in the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution 
Catherine Mirkes, Leire Sarasola Santiago, Maja Stanišič, RAUN.

​Successful implementation of SDG 11 - Best Practices and Cases
Jakub Adamec, Christopher Franz, Eva-Maria Holzinger, RAUN
11:15 - 11:45
Break
11:45 – 13:00
Panel 6 Gender Equality
Chair: Diana De Marchi, City of Milan

Social Integration of Female Refugees in Austria
Medina Abylkasymova, Maite Ibáñez Bollerhoff, Anja Eberharter, RAUN

Female Underrepresentation in Space Science: A Case Study of the African Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education
Ursula Emmanuilidis, Irene Marcora, Tamara Pataki, RAUN
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45
Panel 7 Sustainable Crime prevention
Chair: Anja Busse, UNODC

The Linkages between Cybercrime and Organised Crime: Expectations versus Legal Reality
Laura Birkelbach, Mariusz Bogacki, Luisa Guerrero Silva, RAUN

Youth, Delinquency, Substance Abuse, Gang Membership and Violent Extremism in the US and Europe: A comparative evaluation of risk and protective factors
Ivana Kohut, Helga Orozco Klaß, RAUN
15:45 – 16:00​
Break
16:15 – 17:30​
Certificate award ceremony and official closing