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Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour [1]

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Date: 2023-03 

This conference will explore possibilities for enhancing the environmental sustainability of research and innovation activities in wet and dry laboratory environments across all scientific disciplines in both industry and academia.

This hybrid Royal Society conference, developed in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry, will offer a forum to connect a broad range of individuals working within both wet and dry laboratory environments who have an interest in enhancing the environmental sustainability of research and innovation activities. These will include senior leaders from industry and academia as well as scientists, technicians, and students working in a wide range of scientific environments including physics, engineering, chemistry, biology, and clinical research.

It will take a discursive approach to highlight and explore this topic, consider trade-offs and myths, examine examples of good practice and promising innovations, explore current and future challenges, discuss how progress might be measured, and foster opportunities for collaboration. The conference will contain a number of elements, including:

a series of roundtable discussions

reflections from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Academy of Medical Sciences on recent publications and workshops

future direction of travel for the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework

case studies from industry

discussion about metrics, data collection, and lifecycle assessments

Scope 3 emissions

a discussion for laboratory scientists, technicians and data scientists

discussion with funding bodies

There will also be unstructured time during refreshment breaks for networking and discussion.

About the conference series

Supported by Rolls Royce, this meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future series. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting-edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. A written report will be published within three months of the conference.

Attending this event

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[1] Url: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/05/sustainable-research-tof/

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