Consistent with the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the many requirements to be fulfilled so as to allow its implementation, the aims of the “2nd World Symposium on Sustainability Science and Research” are as follows:

1. to provide a platform to discuss the contribution of Sustainability Science and Research towards the implementation of the SDGs;
2. to mobilize the relevant actors (i.e. government offices and authorities, universities, enterprises, NGOs and grassroots organizations) working with sustainable development, to gather and deliberate how Sustainability Science and Research can help to achieve the SDGs;
3. to offer an opportunity for those working with Sustainability Science and Research, and with its various ramifications, to meet their peers from across the world, and to display and present their works;
4.  to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of projects, from successful initiatives and good practice.

Last but not least, a further aim of the event will be to document and disseminate the wealth of experiences on sustainability science and research available today. To this purpose, the multi-volume publication “Universities and Sustainable Communities: meeting the goals of the Agenda 2030” will be published, with all accepted papers. This landmark publication will be part of the award-winning “World Sustainability Series”, published by Springer, one of the world’s top five scientific publishers. The book will be fully peer-reviewed.