Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director General and Gender Equality and DEI Officer, highlights the IIASA Interaction Festival 2026 Open Mic Session, where research, creativity, and community came together.
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.
The Raiffa Academy, anchored at IIASA, is the hub of a global network of researchers, government officials, and decision analysts promoting the application of decision science and negotiation analysis methodologies in the development of solutions to complex, science-intensive policy challenges. In this personal reflection, Howard Raiffa's daughter, Judy Raiffa, shares the story of her father's transformative years at IIASA, the profound impact they had on his life's work, and the enduring vision he hoped would continue to shape the Institute's future.
Eight IIASA experts have been included in Carbon Brief’s latest ranking of the world’s 500 most highly cited climate scientists, while IIASA itself ranks among the world’s leading institutions for climate research, highlighting the Institute’s continued leadership in advancing climate and sustainability science.
The Government of Barbados and IIASA have signed a letter of intent, formally launching Barbados’ path toward membership in the Institute and establishing a new partnership to apply advanced systems analysis and global modeling to the design of a regenerative economy.
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.
Johannessaal, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 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.
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.
IIASA recently welcomed Toshiyasu Ichioka, Director of the RIKEN Europe Office, to Schloss Laxenburg for a half-day program aimed at strengthening scientific ties and exploring potential avenues for future collaboration.
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.
NOVA School of Business and Economics (Carcavelos Campus, in Lisbon - Portugal)
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.
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.