"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives"

Abba Eban
"Then I say the Earth belongs to each generation during its course, fully and in its right no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its existence"

Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The Report of the U.N. Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987
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University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia

University of Palermo
Palermo, Italy

Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal
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Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia

TH Köln – Technology, Arts, Sciences
Cologne, Germany

Delft University of Technology
Delft, The Netherlands

University of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Croatia

Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA-RCESD)
Skopje, Macedonia

American University of Ras Al Khaimah
Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Industrial University of Santander
Bucaramanga, Colombia

University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK)
Ankara, Turkey

"Vinča" Institute of Nuclear Sciences
Belgrade, Serbia

Warsaw University of Technology
Warsaw, Poland
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