Date: 16 December 2024      

We see libraries as spaces of commoning, where knowledge is shared and made freely accessible. What role does sustainability play here? The program ‘Common Waste – Common Libraries’ from the Goethe-Institutes in Southeast Europe shows in which directions we can think about green libraries.   The format aimed to network young initiators from different countries and different backgrounds with each other and to expand knowledge about sustainability in libraries. What can we learn from the project? And what were the biggest challenges?

Speaker: Alexandra Vavelidou

Alexandra Vavelidou is a trained journalist and works at the Goethe-Institut Athens in the department of information and library. She is project coordinator of the ‘Common Waste – Common Libraries’ program and organizes workshops and events on the topics of sustainability and media literacy/digitality. Project mentor Dražen Simlesa will join the Webinar to tell us more from the “mentor’s perspective”.
 
 
 
Mentor:  Drazen Šimleša
 
Drazen Šimleša works as a senior research associate at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb. The fields of work are social and solidarity economy, sustainability, and permaculture. He has published eight books and several scientific papers. The last book is Public Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy – Manual for Cities (2021). He teaches the Global Society and Sustainable Development course at Peace Studies. He is active in the association Green Network of Activist Groups (ZMAG) as the Coordinator of the Center of knowledge program and as the manager of the Cooperative for a Good Economy.
 
 
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