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| Company type | Non-governmental research organization |
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| Genre | Sustainable development |
| Founded | Zagreb,Croatia (2009 (2009)) |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Website | www |
SDEWES Centre (The International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems), is anon-governmental scientific organization based at theUniversity of Zagreb,Croatia.[1][2]
SDEWES Centre is dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing thesustainability of development byde-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them withknowledge-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, usingwaste from one, as resource in other, and in exact moment when it is beneficial to all, integratingelectricity,heating,cooling,transport,water,buildings,industry,forestry andagriculture systems.
The Centre organizes courses, summer schools, public lectures, seminars and workshops in order to promotesustainable development ofenergy,water andenvironment systems and provides professional opinion on issues ofsustainability and sustainability metrics. The Centre also organizes a series of international SDEWES conferences for scientists to discuss issues of sustainability ofenergy,water andenvironment 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.[3]
SDEWES started as a project co-funded byCORDIS under the FP5 – INCO 2 programme[4] in 2002, when first Dubrovnik Conference onSustainable Development ofEnergy,Water andEnvironment Systems was organized. Partners in this project wereUniversity of Zagreb andInstituto 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.
The Committee is made of leading researchers (half of them are on the top 2% Stanford list of most influential scientists[5]), and several are Editors-in-chief of leading journals (Energy,Journal of Cleaner Production,Journal of Environmental Management,Renewable Energy,Applied Energy).
New section of SDEWES Centre, SDEWES-Skopje or Macedonian section,[6] is established inSkopje,North Macedonia, with the goal to gather professionals and scientists from broad range of disciplines, particularly located in theSoutheast Europe, in order to provide scientific support for wise policy-making. SDEWES-Skopje aims to extend the activities at regional level including the otherEU candidate and potential candidate countries, as well asEU neighbourhood countries to foster regional coordination in providing feasible solutions for the common challenges and gaining synergy effects.
The second section of SDEWES Centre, Serbian section, has been founded in 2018.[7]
According to the Statute of SDEWES Centre, every person can under the same circumstances apply for membership.
Up to 2011, SDEWES Conference was organized as biennial conference inDubrovnik,Croatia. From the year 2012, it is an annual event but with a geographic regime. Every two years the conference is held in Dubrovnik, and in the years between on different locations.
The SDEWES 2012 Conference was held inOhrid, and in 2014 on a cruise ship travelling betweenVenice andIstanbul.[8]
In 2014, the first regional SEE SDEWES conference was held inOhrid,Macedonia focused on South East Europe.[9]
In 2015, the 10th Conference on SDEWES was held inDubrovnik.[10] 540 scientists from over 65 countries participated.
In 2016, the second regional SEE SDEWES conference was held inPiran,Slovenia.[11]
Also in 2016, the 11th SDEWES Conference was held inLisbon,Portugal.[12]
In 2017, the 12th SDEWES Conference was held inDubrovnik.[13]
In 2018, the 1st LATIN AMERICAN SDEWES Conference was held inRio de Janeiro, Brazil,[14] and the third regional SEE (Southeast European) SDEWES conference was held inNovi Sad,Serbia.[15]
Also in 2018 year, the 13th SDEWES Conference was held inPalermo,Italy.[16]
In 2019, the 14th Conference on SDEWES was held inDubrovnik.[17]
In 2020, there were 4 SDEWES Conferences, the 2nd Latin American SDEWES Conference (Buenos Aires,Argentina),[citation needed] 1st Asia Pacific SDEWES Conference (Gold Coast,Australia),[18] 4th South East Europe SDEWES Conference (Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina) and 15th SDEWES Conference (Cologne,Germany), and they have delivered around 700 presentations devoted to various sustainability topics.[19]
In 2021, the 16th Conference on SDEWES was held inDubrovnik with 630 scientists and researchers from 58 countries who participated.[20]
In 2022, the fifth regional SEE SDEWES conference was held inVlorë,Albania[21] and the third LATIN AMERICAN SDEWES Conference was held inSão Paulo,Brazil[22]
Also in 2022 year, the 17th SDEWES Conference[23] was held inPaphos,Cyprus.
In 2023, the 18th Conference on SDEWES was held inDubrovnik with 646 scientists and researchers from 58 countries.[24]
In 2024, there were 3 SDEWES Conferences, the 4th Latin American SDEWES Conference (Vina del Mar,Chile),[25] the 2nd Asia Pacific SDEWES Conference (Gold Coast,Australia),[26] and 19th SDEWES Conference (Rome,Italy), with 700 scientists, researchers, and experts.[27]
In 2025 year, the first African SDEWES Conference is planned to be held inOujda /Saidia,Morocco, and the 20th SDEWES Conference will held inDubrovnik.[28]
Work presented at the conferences are published in scientific journals[29] and among them, inRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,Energy Conversion and Management,Applied Energy,Journal of Cleaner Production,Journal of Environmental Management,Energy,Renewable Energy,Fuel,International Journal of Hydrogen Energy,Applied Thermal Engineering,Energy reports,Energies,Thermal Science,International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management,Smart Energy andJournal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems[30]
SDEWES Centre is publishing researchopen accessJournal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (JSDEWES) since 2013. Journal is indexed inScopus andEmerging Science Citation Index.
SDEWES Centre forms research teams from the pool of members to participate in research projects.
SDEWES Centre[31] has been involved in twoFP7 projects,[32][33] threeHorizon 2020 projects,[34][35][36] oneEMFF / EASME project for blue economy,[37] three projects under theInterreg fund,[38][39][40] one project under theEUKI fund,[41] one project under theEEA and Norway Grants[42] and one project under theEuropean Strategy for Danube Region (EUSDR) fund START.
SDEWES-Skopje (Macedonian section) has also been involved in several projects, including fourHorizon 2020 projects[43][44][45][46]
In line with the aims of the SDEWES Center, an index is also developed to benchmark the performance of cities across aspects that are related to energy, water and environment systems. With the namesake of the Center, the SDEWES Index consists of 7 dimensions, 35 indicators, and close to 25 sub-indicators. It is currently applied to 120 cities.[47]
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