Save the Date: The 6th World Sustainability Forum WSF2017 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 27 and 28 January 2017

We are happy to announce the 6th World Sustainability Forum which will be held on 27 and 28 January 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The early bird conference registrations will open in a few weeks. Until then, you can stay updated by visiting the preliminary website or following us on Twitter.

Conference Chairs:
Max Bergman - Chair of Social Research and Methodology at the University of Basel
Aldo Stroebel - Executive Director, National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
Frans Swanepoel - Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research & Innovation, University of the Western Cape

Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town ranks third among the most populous urban areas in South Africa, after Johannesburg, and has roughly the same population as the Durban Metropolitan Area. It is also the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition. Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. In particular it aims to: Advance and protect the independence of the academic enterprise. Stellenbosch University (SU) is amongst South Africa's leading tertiary institutions based on research output, student pass rates and rated scientists, and is recognised internationally as an academic institution of excellence. It boasts the highest weighted research output per full-time academic staff member of all South African universities and the second-highest number of scientists in South Africa who have been rated by the National Research Foundation (NRF). It also has the highest student success rate in the country.

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