The megatrends of the future

Increasing urbanization, growing mobility, demographic change and the silver society, the worsening energy and resource situation, neo-ecology, health progress, advancing globalization and migration, digitalization and connectivity, entrepreneurship, knowledge culture, security, gender shift - the megatrends of the future do not need to be predicted, they are already here and are playing a key role in social change. As global developments, they have an impact on society, politics and the economy.

The panelists will address the central question of which topics and global challenges they see as the megatrends of the future and attempt to clarify the ways in which findings from science should be taken up by society, business and politics.

Panel discussion: Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind, President and Managing Director of the Wuppertal Institute and member of the University Council of the University of Kassel
Prof. Dr. Andreas Ernst, Managing Director of the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) at the University of Kassel

Moderation: Thomas Landgraf, founder and long-standing CEO of enercast GmbH and member of the University Council of the University of Kassel
The event will take place on July 12, 2018 at Science Park Kassel, Universitätsplatz 12, conference room A + B. Please register at www.uni-kassel.de/go/dialog.

The panel discussion is part of the series of events organized by the Universitätsgesellschaft Kassel e.V. University and Society in Dialogue and is supported by UniKasselTransfer, UNIKIMS GmbH and Science Park Kassel GmbH.