Europe

IIASA’s MowingQuest citizen-science campaign has wrapped up its August–September 2026 system test, with 25 pioneer users submitting almost 800 observations across eight countries. The results will help improve the app and data-quality workflows ahead of the main 2027 campaign. Two participants have also won Garmin GPS watches in the campaign raffle.

MOSAIC project results and IIASA research on climate-resilient protective forests are featured during Austria’s Protective Forest Week 2026, including work on wildfire risk, decision-support tools, and the Alpine Resilience Web Atlas.

Coordinators, partners and graduates of the MSc European Forestry program visited IIASA on 29 September 2026. Twenty visitors from at least eight countries came as part of the alumni event held alongside the program's graduation ceremony at BOKU University in Vienna.