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The 13th World Sustainability Forum

Name: The 13th World Sustainability Forum
Start: 2027-06-07T22:00:00
End: 2027-06-10T22:00:00

08 - 11 June 2027

Nice, France

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Welcome from
the chairs

It is a great pleasure to invite you to the 13th World Sustainability Forum (WSF-13), which will be held in Nice, on the French Riviera, from 8-11 June 2027.

Nice is a fitting place for this conversation. It is a Mediterranean city shaped by its coastline and its climate, and it faces in concentrated form the pressures that cities everywhere now confront, from rising temperatures and water stress to tourism, mobility and the protection of a landscape that is also a livelihood. It is equally a city and a region investing in the answers, in renewable energy, in the circular economy, in artificial intelligence and in the science that supports better public and private decisions.

WSF-13 continues a series that has brought researchers, policymakers and practitioners together since 2011 and that now meets every year. Our sessions span the breadth of sustainability research, from energy systems, biodiversity and water to the circular economy, food, mobility, education, green finance and the methods we use to measure progress and choose between options. The ambition of the forum is to keep the natural sciences, engineering and the social sciences in the same room, because the problems we work on do not divide along those lines.

The forum will also host the annual awards of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, and it will leave ample space for the conversations between sessions that often matter most.

I look forward to welcoming you to Nice.

Kind regards,
Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef
Université Côte d'Azur, France

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Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef

Côte d'Azur University, Nice, France;Adel Ben Youssef is Professor of Economics at the Université Côte d'Azur and a member of the CNRS research laboratory (GREDEG - CNR UMR 7321). He is also an associate researcher at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo and the Global Labor Organization in Bonn. He is an international expert on digital and ecological transitions for many international institutions. He is a founding member of the African Association of Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 (AISMA). In addition, he was a negotiator for Tunisia at COP 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 (2017-2024) in the field of climate finance. He has published more than 100 academic articles in various renowned international journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Platforms Journal (MDPI), Associate Editor of the journals Development and Sustainability in Economics and Finance (Springer) and Green and Low-Carbon Economy (GLCE). He is ranked among the top 4% of economists in the last 10 years by REPEC and the top 1% of economists by scholar GPS.

Prof. Dr. Max Bergman

University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland;Professor Max Bergman is currently the Chair Professor of Social Research and Methodology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Director of the Social Transformation Research Group. He also serves as a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, a Fellow of the Ugandan National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of *World* and President of the Swiss Society for Environmental Research and Ecology, and has served as Chair of the World Social Forum (WSF) and the Basel Forum on Sustainable Development since 2014. His research focuses on sustainable development, social transformation, and the relationship between business and society.

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