News

YSSP award

15 January 2026

Winners of the 2025 Young Scientists Summer Program Awards Announced

IIASA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) Awards in recognition of outstanding research conducted during the program.
Fire sparkles glow in dark blue background

22 January 2025

Winners of the 2024 Young Scientists Summer Program Awards Announced

IIASA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) Awards in recognition of outstanding research conducted during the program.
An AI generated illustration of a meteorological spring in the Northern Hemisphere

28 October 2024

IIASA’s CAT group held a workshop on negotiation for natural disaster risk reduction decision-making

The MEDiate project is designed to help policymakers in decisions on natural disaster risk reduction. This year’s general assembly was held on 24 and 25 October. During this event, IIASA’s CAT team in the project held a serious-game workshop for finding sustainable solutions to natural hazard risk reduction. The workshop guided the participants trough silent negotiation to find a risk reduction solution for city-wide disaster scenarios.

Events

Focus

AI Generated image of tree and network - sustainable development concept

28 June 2024

Launching a scientific career: The impact of the YSSP experience

Every year, the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) hosts around 50 young scientists for three months over the course of the summer to undertake a scientific project within the scope of their PhD on a topic related to the IIASA research agenda. In this Q&A, Carolien Kroeze, current Rector Magnificus of Wageningen University and 1991 YSSP participant, recounts her IIASA experience.

PB41

Feasible futures

Policy Brief #41, October 2023. Embracing the notion of feasibility, this research shows that the world will probably overshoot 1.5°C, largely owing to low institutional capacity. Energy demand reduction and electrification are two options to turn down the heat, and addressing weak institutions is crucial.

Projects

city on the Danube river

Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region (TiCCA4Danu)

tree plant

Nature for insurance, insurance for nature (NATURANCE)

rural place

GRANULAR – Better Knowledge for better rural policies

Concept of disaster plan

Promoting disaster preparedness and resilience by co‐developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters (PARATUS)