The Workshop on Ancient Wisdom for Modern Challenges took place in July 6-8, 2022, in Athens, Greece. International scholars of philosophy, policy science, behavioral science, and other interdisciplinary fields, met at the famed Academy of Athens to explore how ancient philosophy can inform our modern understanding of ethics and well-being, and thereby help to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change, shifting geopolitics, and rising inequalities.
As a pre-COP27 (
UN Climate Change Conference) event the
SDSN Global Climate Hub was launched by Prof.
Jeffrey Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and
Maria Cortes-Puch, Vice President of SDSN. The Chair of the SDSN Global Climate Hub will be Prof.
Phoebe Koundouri, Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business and Denmark Technical University, as well as Director of the Sustainable Development Unit at ATHENA Information Technologies RC and Co-Chair of SDSN Europe. Prof. Yannis Ioannidis, Prof. Christos S. Zerefos and Prof. Andreas Papandreou, will support the Hub as Co-Founders.
Next year,
on July 3-7, 2023, the current group of participants will join forces with the
Chinesse Academy of Social Sciences and the
City of Beijing, while the theme of the workshop will be Aristotelian Philosophy and Confucianism paving solution pathways to Modern Challenges. The
"Aristotle-Confucius Symposium" will be held at the Academy of Athens.