Good news: we have extended the call for proposals! We are excited to hear your inspiring story, fab ideas, and to find out more about your projects. So, send your proposals until the 31st of January 2022 & join us at Occupy Library 2022: The E+Libraries On The Rise!

Libraries can have a leading role on the path to sustainability, that’s why we will label them E+Libraries. E+ stems mainly from a new ECOLOGY of the ECOSYSTEMS where less is consumed and more is shared. Libraries play a very important role in shaping more sustainable and responsible societies, not only by educating people, but also by becoming centers for testing new economic models, innovation and technology. Sustainability has at its core a new way of seeing the economic exchanges and growth: the circular economy. If the classical model of business was defined by the triad: take-make-waste, the circular economy looks at interactions based on the concepts: borrow-use-return.

Basically, it means working with and preparing the communities in line with the 7R method: rethink, redesign, repurpose, reuse, repair, remanufacture, recycle and recover. Libraries, as community development hubs can play a role in all these processes and they already do.

The main themes of Occupy Library 2022 – The E+Libraries On The Rise are:

• Engaging community in rethinking, repurposing and remanufacturing, recycling
• Empowerment for repair, reuse and recover
• Educating for a sustainable Planet

Find out more here!

Become a contributor!

Join Occupy Library – The E+Libraries On The Rise! on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2022!

Types Of Tickets – Attendees

As an attendee, you have the option to join the conference online, by getting a Virtual Ticket, or you can travel to Bucharest in order to meet other innovators LIVE, at the Goethe-Institut Bukarest by getting the Offline Ticket or The Premium Offline Ticket.

1. The Virtual Ticket

2. The Offline Ticket

2. The Premium Offline Ticket

After completing the form, please pay your ticket prices (and take into consideration international bank fees) using the details below.

Types Of Tickets – Speakers

To be a speaker for Occupy Library 2022 means that your position as a contributor for the conference was confirmed by us on email. Please keep in touch with us at occupylibrary@progressfoundation.ro, and follow the instructions that we have sent you by email.

Each speaker of the sessions must get one ticket for Occupy Library 2022:

• if you are a confirmed online speaker, please get your virtual ticket
• if you are a confirmed offline speaker, please opt for one of the two offline tickets and follow the instructions here.

In June 2022 we invite you to Bucharest to the second edition of the Occupy Library Conference: Occupy Library 2022 – The E+Libraries On The Rise!

Libraries can have a leading role on the path to sustainability, that’s why we will label them E+Libraries.

E+ stems mainly from a new ECOLOGY of life, where less is consumed and more is shared. Libraries play a very important role in shaping more sustainable and responsible societies, not only by educating people, but also by becoming centers for testing new economic models, innovation and technology.

In 2022 we expect you to Occupy Libraries with concepts like: environment, equity, engagement, empowerment, empathy, entertainment, economics. All in an E+Library extravaganza that will elevate your excitement and bring some well-deserved euphoria.

We will welcome a great variety of contributions which showcase the endeavor of libraries for promoting circular economy and sustainable communities.

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