2025 IIN Sustainability Research and Social Innovation Conference
Posted August 20, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, IL will host the 2025 IIN Sustainability Research Conference on September 25-26, 2025.
This gathering will provide a forum for university faculty, students, program managers, and real-world innovators from across the state to discuss and learn about sustainability- and social innovation-related projects. This is a remarkable opportunity to develop connections with potential collaborators on issues that are important to Illinois.
The Conference will be held at the Holmes Student Center on the Northern Illinois University campus. Thursday afternoon will feature research-related discussions followed by a screening of the documentary What’s Left Behind (which was created with support from an IIN Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grant); Friday will feature a keynote address followed by speaker sessions and poster session, along with a workshop focused on social innovation project development (with breakfast and lunch provided). The schedule can be viewed at https://iin.uillinois.edu/conference/
Interested in attending? Conference registration will be accessible online through this website and available the week of August 18, 2025.
The Sustainability Research Conference and Social Innovation Workshop is currently accepting abstracts for posters and oral presentations through Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Interested in presenting your work? Click here to submit an abstract to one of these tracks. More information can be found on the conference page.
- Track 1: Sustaining Communities through Climate Resilience
- Track 2: Sustaining Infrastructure Systems
- Track 3: Sustaining Food Systems
- Track 4: Sustaining Ecosystems through Restoration and Conservation
- Track 5: Social Innovation for driving research, education, and economic development
