World Sustainability Forum (WSF)

The World Sustainability Forum (WSF) is organized by MDPI and partially sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. From 2025 onwards, the WSF is held annually. The 13th World Sustainability Forum (WSF-13) will take place in Nice, France, from 8 to 11 June 2027, chaired by Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef (Université Côte d'Azur, France). The forum will bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to address key sustainability challenges across energy, biodiversity, water, the circular economy, food, mobility, education and green finance.

The WSF local forums are locally held, physical one-day conferences organized by MDPI and the respective local partners, that are partially sponsored the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. Similar to the World Sustainability Forum, the local forums are dedicated to expanding knowledge of sustainability in all its facets and seek to contribute to policy-relevant, change-oriented, and transdisciplinary research and collaboration between science and technology, the life sciences, and the social sciences. Specifically, the SF local fora aim to provide researchers, stakeholders, as well as the general public with a local platform for exchange on a designated issue regarding sustainability.