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Unleashing Africa’s potential: The role of education

How can education unlock Africa’s future? At the 2026 Yidan Prize Conference in Dakar, IIASA research will showcase new evidence on skills, human capital, and development pathways, including insights from the African Human Capital Data Sheet 2026.

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Forum Anthropozän 2026: IIASA Director General to deliver keynote on the “Good Anthropocene”

From 11–13 June 2026, the alpine town of Heiligenblut am Großglockner, Austria, will once again become a meeting point for forward-looking dialogue on sustainability, climate resilience, and the future of society during the 9th FORUM ANTHROPOZÄN. Audiences from around the world will also be able to join the opening keynote by IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber online via livestream.  

AI and planet

Public lecture: Digitalization and AI within planetary boundaries

IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program Director, Keywan Riahi, will deliver a public lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the National Member Organization representing Austria at IIASA, as part of their Mathematical and Natural Sciences Division's session. 

EPC26

European Population Conference 2026

Population and Just Societies Program scientists will present and discuss latest IIASA research at the European Population Conference-EPC 2026 organized by European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the University of Bologna in Italy.

Bloom Science workshop

BLOOM One Health Science Workshop

BLOOM is an interdisciplinary One Health research project that aims to better understand and model the risk of zoonotic disease spillover (particularly Ebola Virus Disease) in Sierra Leone.

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  • Advancing Systems Analysis Research groups
    • Cooperation and Transformative Governance (CAT)
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    • Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM)
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  • Biodiversity and Natural Resources Research groups
    • Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)
    • Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
    • Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF)
    • Water Security (WAT)
  • Economic Frontiers Research fields
    • Economics of Equal Life Chances (EELC)
    • Economics of disruptive change (EDC)
  • Energy, Climate, and Environment Research groups
    • Integrated Assessment and Climate Change (IACC)
    • Integrated Climate Impacts (ICI)
    • Pollution Management (PM)
    • Sustainable Service Systems (S3)
    • Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
  • Population and Just Societies Research groups
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    • Health, Ageing and Health Systems (H2A)
    • Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
    • Multidimensional Demographic Modeling (MDM)
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    • JustTrans4All project

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10 June 2026

Annual global migration has nearly tripled since 2000

Global migration has risen sharply from approximately 13 million people per year in 2000 to around 35 million people per year in 2023. This is according to a new dataset on human migration published in Nature by researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), IIASA, and the University of Hong Kong.
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09 June 2026

Life after work: Why social connections matter

Social networks may help protect cognitive functioning in later life, particularly among older adults who are no longer working, according to a new IIASA-led study. Drawing on data from 27 European countries, the researchers found that social connections can help compensate for the loss of mentally stimulating interactions linked to work, with different types of relationships benefiting women and men.
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05 June 2026

IIASA welcomes Greece as its newest member

IIASA is excited to announce that Greece has joined the Institute effective from 1 June 2026 through the Academy of Athens, Greece’s national academy and the highest research establishment in the country.

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09 June 2026 Online

EU Green Week 2026: Climate Risks and Biodiversity for European Resilience and a Nature-Positive Economy

09 June 2026 Online (closed expert workshop)

Expert workshop on food waste emissions methodologies and MRV systems

14 June 2026 Davos- Switzerland

World Biodiversity Forum: Leading Transformation Together

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The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute with National and Regional Member Organisations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

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The IIASA vision for 2021 to 2030 is to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.

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Each IIASA member is represented by a National or Regional Member Organization that governs and funds the institute and acts as a bridge to link the country’s research and policy communities to IIASA.

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