Accelerate ongoing efforts to advance technologies, policies, and practices that promote the adoption and increased share of renewable energy sources.
Understand, optimize, and sustainably manage the world's water systems
Advance research on competitive and flexible education in the new era of learning, work-based, competence-based and innovative pedagogy, valuable learning outcomes for employability and skills, partnership and capacity building in local communities for sustainable development
Explore complex relationships between urban and rural areas – Address challenges and opportunities arising from urbanization, rural development, and the interface between these – Focus on the phenomenon of ageing in rural areas.
Advancing ideas of paradigm shift towards sustainable production and consumption practices, emphasizing utilisation of renewable resources, minimising waste generation, and fostering eco-friendly innovation.
Study conditions and tools that may foster innovation and entrepreneurship, favouring the development of new business models that may contribute to sustainability and digital transition at the regional level.