Organize an event at Day Zero 2025!

We hereby invite you to submit your application to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. Day Zero is a free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts. Your suggested Day Zero event will be streamed on the conference platform to a worldwide audience.  

Day Zero is an opportunity to organize creative spaces (workshops, exhibitions, debates, etc.)  to present your work of relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We invite a diverse audience to participate, whether you are a student, work in academia, research, civil society, non-profit, start-up company, corporation, or small business.  

The topic 

The topic of the SDG Conference Bergen 2025 is Sustainable Health in Turbulent Times. The conference will focus on the critical interconnections between health, people, and the planet, emphasizing the need for integrated climate and health initiatives. A fundamental transformation of how we understand and deliver good health and wellbeing for people and planet alike is required. The SDG Conference Bergen will boldly advance this transformation, aiming to accelerate cross-sectoral action at the intersections of climate, health, and sustainability. 

All initiatives are welcome 

We encourage all kinds of initiatives, from presentations of SDG-relevant teaching and pedagogical innovations to concrete research projects or just to raise a debate about what you see as important topics within the broader SDG discourse. Day Zero is designed to be an open space to communicate across disciplines, topics, and goals and to learn from one another in critical applications of the SDGs and their associated targets and indicators. 

Streaming through the conference platform 

All Day Zero events will run on the conference platform. Your suggested event will therefore have to be made digitally available as a Zoom/Teams meeting/webinar, or similar, or through a direct video streaming link. 

Please note that you will be responsible for all practicalities of your suggested event including making it digitally available. Please seek help in your own organisations if you need assistance in setting up such meetings. For events taking place in Bergen, contact us if you need assistance in finding a venue. The SDG Conference Bergen secretariat will be responsible for dissemination of accepted events on the official conference platform. For an overview of previously held Day Zero events, please see the programme for Day Zero in February 2024  

All abstracts will be evaluated by the Day Zero Planning Committee. The committee reserves the right to suggest modifications to the events in line with the SDG Conference Bergen vision and aims. Accepted workshops will be notified by 1 December.