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At a time when strengthening biodiversity protection and climate resilience has never been more urgent, cost-efficient and evidence-based approaches to conservation are gaining real policy traction. The NaturaConnect project has spent four years developing precisely these approaches – and this event is your opportunity to engage with the results. We will present the project’s scientific outputs, innovative decision-support tools and policy recommendations, covering protected area expansion, restoration priorities and key ecological corridors that together form the Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) across a range of climate and land-use scenarios. Through panel sessions and keynote speeches, the event will help chart a path forward – ensuring NaturaConnect’s tools, datasets and guidelines continue to inform conservation planning beyond the project’s lifetime.

IIASA has been invited to participate in the 48th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, taking place from 13–17 July 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The final Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop will take place on 7–9 October 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, marking the culmination of four years of collaborative research and innovation in open-source Earth Observation applications and showcasing the project's final tools, results, and impact.

The Epistem initiative launches Luma – Land Use Mapping for All at a national workshop in Indonesia on collaborative land use and land cover mapping in Indonesia.

The ENFORCE project consortium will meet at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in the city of Barcelona to review the second year of the project and to develop an action plan for 2027. 

This third session of the AI4SoilHealth Cross-Policy Soil Dialogues – following earlier dialogues on nature restoration and the Common Agricultural Policy – brings together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders to examine how improved soil monitoring, AI-powered indicators, and field-tested methodologies can connect climate policy objectives with implementation on the ground.

AFE Group researchers Dr. Christian Folberth and Dr. Pavel Kiparisov will present results from the ANFOS project at the workshop “Possible Effects of Nuclear War: An Austrian Perspective”, taking place on 29 June 2026 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Science Diplomacy Director and Head of Communications and External Relations, Susie Kitchens, will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming conference on Regional Engagement in the Era of Responsible Internationalization in Higher Education, co-organized by the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) and Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) in Vienna.

MIG researchers will present their latest research insights at the 7th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCEREA), taking place in Carcavelos, Portugal.

The CCI26 workshop brings together senior leaders from the insurance industry, researchers, actuaries and academic experts to deepen the understanding of how climate change impacts the insurance industry and to foster collaboration at both national and international levels. 

IIASA, NewClimate Institute, and the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) are organizing a side event during the sixty-fourth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SB 64) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).