The Brazilian Blue University PUCPR – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, together with friends and partners from other universities, produced a book on Blue Universities, to be launched for World Water Day 2026.
ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH: Blue University and Water Justice
🌎 Celebration of World Water Day 2026. Theme: Water and gender. Motto: Where water flows, equality grows
💧 PUCPR – A Blue University committed to water justice and water as a universal human right.
📚 Organisers:
Prof. Dr. Elias Wolff – PPG in Theology (PUCPR)
Prof. Dr. Marta Luciane Fischer – PPG in Bioethics (PUCPR)
📅 23 March 2026
⏰7:00 p.m. Sao Paolo, Brazil
Other time zones: 6pm EDT (Ottawa), 10pm UTC (London), 11pm CET (Paris, Berlin, Zurich), 9am Tuesday 24 March AEDT (Melbourne, Australia)
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Blue University: The University and Water Justice
Organizers: Elias Wolff and Marta Luciane Fischer
Table of content
- Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- The Blue Community network: a global movement to turn the world Blue
- Blue University: what is it?
- Federal University of Lavras: experiences as a Blue University
- University engagement: the campus as a political and educational territory of a “Blue University”
- Without water there is no life: a call for university responsibility based on Hans Jonas
- Water Quality Monitoring: Human Resources Training and the Use of Bioindicators
- Water is not a commodity. Elements for a water culture that affirms water as a fundamental human right.
- Biotheater: the bridge to the future, cultivating waters
- Water and Poetry in the genesis of humankind
- Büdingen/Germany and Canavieiras/Brazil: report on a partnership for the protection of water as a human right within the Blue Community
- Afterword
- Index
