HOSPITALAR SUSTAINABILITY
Hospitalar connects the healthcare sector with sustainability!
As an event that has connected people for over 30 years, we understand the weight and importance of the impact we create in the world. In this context, we are leaders in various actions aimed at promoting social responsibility.
We are committed to ensuring that Hospitalar has a positive impact on people and the planet. We want to play a key role in helping the entire healthcare community improve its own sustainability by connecting people with the networks and knowledge they need to help address the major challenges of the future.
1. Inspiring sustainability
Incorporate sustainability into our brand by 2025 to inspire our sector to be more sustainable, promoting the achievement of the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
Ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education, and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.
Ensure reliable, sustainable, modern, and affordable access to energy for all.
Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns.
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
2. Environmental Responsibility
Become carbon neutral, halve our waste, and help our customers reduce their carbon footprint by 2025, as a stepping stone to achieve zero waste and net-zero carbon by 2030 or sooner.
Reduction of printed materials
Selective collection
LED lamps
Credential recycling
Printed materials with FSC certification
Free transportation/Express route to the event
Vegetarian and vegan food options
Evaluate the sustainable practices of the exhibiting companies
Encouragement of carpooling among colleagues attending the event
Carpet made from recycled PET and PP, reused between events or transformed into new products.
Sustainability Area and ESG content throughout the entire program
3. Social Responsibility
Contribute at least 1% of pre-tax profits to community groups by 2025, promote diversity and inclusion, and create value for our host cities.
Partnership with the NGO Safrater, which supports families in high social vulnerability.
Suppliers with a focus on social inclusion
Relaxation area with hydration and massages
Support for nonprofit social institutions
Nursing room
Accessibility with motorized wheelchairs for people with reduced mobility
CoWorking Space encouraging connections
Highlights 2025
Better Stands is a global program for the events industry, which aims to achieve zero waste from stands by 2030. The initiative aims to encourage exhibiting companies to abandon the use of disposable (single-use) stands and prioritize the use of reusable structures.
By making their stand projects sustainable, builders and exhibitors will be recognized with Bronze, Silver, and Gold seals at their stands during Hospitalar, and after the event, they will receive a digital certificate based on their respective levels of progress.
We want to have a positive impact on our local community, and in our 2025 edition, we had the opportunity to make a social impact through support for institutions such as:
- Doctors Without Borders
- Jô Clemente Institute
- Doctors of Joy
- Rare Theater
Hospitalar 2025 reinforces its social commitment with a solidarity project: part of the ticket sales will be donated to AACD, the Pope Francis Hospital Boat, and the Irmã Dulce Social Project.
These NGOs provide rehabilitation, medical assistance, and essential care to thousands of people. By participating in the event, you help strengthen these causes and transform lives.
Learn more about the work of these organizations and discover how you can get involved to make a difference. Together, we can transform the future of healthcare!
Irmã Dulce Social Works, AACD, and São Francisco Hospital Boat.
Learn more about the project here!
At Hospitalar 2025, we had several initiatives that contributed to the sustainability of the planet, the sector, and the care of our audience. Let's take a look at some of them:
- Totems exclusively focused on sustainability;
- 100% of the carpet is reused;
- An app with access to content and maps, reducing paper waste;
- Ambulances available 24/7;
- Constant maintenance of the carpets to prevent accidents.
How to help encourage and improve sustainability at Hospitalar?
As a visitor
- Consider how you will get to the event and whether you can avoid flights or use low carbon footprint transportation, such as public transport, free shuttles, or carpooling;
- Recycle your waste on-site and at your hotel, whenever possible;
- Support our charity partners: Doctors Without Borders, Jô Clemente Institute, Doctors of Joy and Rare Theater;
- Consider opting for vegetarian and vegan food options and avoid food waste;
- Take only the gifts or brochures you truly need and will use, and consider if there are digital alternatives;
- Consider the environmental credentials of the hotel when deciding where to stay. Meet Hospitalar's official travel agency: hospitalar@feirasecongressos.com.br.
As an exhibitor
- Ensure that your stand can be reused by your company or by your contracted stand builder;
- Think about the waste your stand will generate and try to minimize it as much as possible. Make sure that unavoidable waste is recycled;
- Choose LED lighting and other energy-efficient equipment for your stand, and ensure you turn off your equipment at the end of the day;
- Optimize your shipments by consolidating them and choosing logistics companies with strong sustainability credentials;
- Reduce paper distribution by going digital and purchase sustainably certified paper when printing is necessary;
- Get involved in the numerous initiatives and conversations during the event that aim to facilitate and inspire the sustainable development of your sector;
- Inspire the sustainable development of your sector by promoting your company and the sustainability credentials of your products and services.
Sustainability at Informa Markets
Hospitalar is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group. Sustainability at Informa focuses on the long-term impacts we have on customers, colleagues, the communities in which we work, and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed the FasterForward approach to sustainable business.
Informa's goal is to become an increasingly sustainable business with a positive impact. Through the FasterForward program, we are embedding sustainability into everything we do and leveraging opportunities to help our clients and markets do the same.
FasterForward is a structured program in three parts, with ambitious commitments and a wide range of activities, covering Informa's business operations, our brands and products, and our broader impact on the community.
When it comes to sustainability, we are moving faster.
Informa PLC is ranked first in the global media sector in the prestigious 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.