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The International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES Centre) is a non-governmental and a non-profit organization. The SDEWES Centre was established after successful organization of four Dubrovnik Conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems with the purpose to provide a wider platform for communication and exchange of ideas between scientists and researchers that promotes multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability.

The main goals of the Centre are organization of international SDEWES conference every two years and general promotion of sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems trough organization of courses, summer schools, public lectures, seminars and workshops and by providing professional opinion on important issues of sustainability.

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SDEWES Centre is a co-organizer of 2nd Conference of the Sustainable development and climate changes, to be held in Nis, Serbia, in September 2010:
http://www.sustainnis.com/en/

SDEWES Centre is a co-organizer of 24th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS2011) to be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, in July 4-7, 2011:
http://www.ecos2011.com

The SDEWES centre has a temporary seat at the University of Zagreb.

The first Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems was organised by the University of Zagreb in cooperation with the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon) in 2002. The conference was partly financed by the European Commission. Since then, four more successful conferences have been organized in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. The SDEWES conferences, their side events and special sessions are becoming important events for the gathering of sustainability students, researchers and project leaders from the region and the entire World. The 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems in 2009 attracted more than 700 abstracts, 500 of which were accepted, and 340 participants from 55 countries have attended.