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IIASA, the Friends of IIASA, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host the inaugural Howard Raiffa Lecture, featuring Avril Haines, President-elect of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former United States Director of National Intelligence. The lecture is part of the launch of the Howard Raiffa Academy, a joint initiative of IIASA and the Friends of IIASA.

From cat videos to automated science, Bettina Greenwell of the IIASA Communications Team explores the questions that lingered after a panel on AI and digitalization at the IIASA Interaction Festival.

On 29 and 30 June 2026, Mozambique's Fundo Nacional de Investigação (FNI) in collaboration with IIASA and the Institute's Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) will co-convene a national workshop in Maputo, Mozambique, focused on strengthening the use of systems approaches in science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy and cross-sector decision-making.

IIASA will participate in the Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Africa Regional Conference 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa, contributing to discussions on how systems approaches can help connect science, policy, and society to support sustainability transitions across Africa.

IIASA Journalist-in-Residence, Lisa Palmer, reflects on discussions during last week's IIASA Interaction Festival, highlighting science diplomacy, systems analysis, and decision intelligence as pillars of the Institute's evolving plans.

Researchers, policymakers, and rural stakeholders will gather in Brussels on 24–25 June 2026 to discuss the future of rural development and innovation.  

A new IIASA-led study finds that climate strategies that cut energy and resource demand tend to improve quality of life across a broader range of dimensions than supply-side alternatives and shows that communicating these wider benefits can strengthen public support.

On Monday, 29 June 2026, at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Carcavelos Campus, in Lisbon - Portugal) the Economic Modelling Workshop on Circular Economy will take place bringing together young scholars, leading researchers and policy experts in the field of circular economy. The event is endorsed as a related event of WCERE - The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, which will follow the workshop.

Reflections on how circular economy modelling research can better inform policy for the transition to net-zero

Following the success of the inaugural Overshoot Conference in Laxenburg, Austria in 2025, the second Overshoot Conference will bring together leading researchers, policymakers, innovators, and communicators to advance the global dialogue on overshoot pathways and responses in Beijing, China. The conference will be hosted by IIASA and Tsinghua University.

On 28 May, Peking University (PKU) and IIASA held a joint online seminar to discuss health research under global change and to review the progress, priorities, and coordination arrangements for a proposed Centre on Global Change and Health.

IIASA, jointly with the Friends of IIASA, is establishing a Howard Raiffa Fellows Program in Negotiation and Decision Science. The Fellowship will bring scholars and practitioners to IIASA to support the Raiffa Academy’s objectives of providing systems analysis tools for science-based policy decisions, negotiations, and diplomacy; facilitating breakthrough dialogues; and building a trusted global network of policy advisors with decision and negotiation analysis expertise. Separate Fellowships will be offered to early career and senior researchers and experts. 

A SEP Orchestration Working Group has formally commenced under the ICONICS steering committee.

The SEP is pleased to call for papers to our Special Issue on “Socioeconomic futures frameworks for motivating actions for sustainability” in the journal Futures.

The SEP is envisaged as a re-evaluation of the architecture of the SSPs, guided by a community-based process. A number of activities are underway for 2026, and the scientific community is asked to provide critical input.

IIASA Director General Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber visited Barbados at the end of May to deepen engagement with government, academic, diplomatic, and international partners and explore new opportunities for collaboration on resilience, innovation, and sustainable development for Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The Raiffa Academy Short Course equips participants with methods to structure evidence-based decisions and negotiations using decision science, negotiation analysis, game theory, and systems analysis.