IIASA researchers will contribute to multiple side-events at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity – an international meeting bringing together governments, researchers, and policymakers from around the world.
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.
A high-level delegation from Nanjing University (NJU), led by Professor Tan Zhemin, President of NJU and Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited IIASA to discuss opportunities for strengthening scientific cooperation and advancing joint research on global challenges.
Xiran Dong and Elliott Woodhouse will lead a workshop on "Just Resilience" at the 15th EUSDR Annual Forum, focusing on how climate adaptation can be designed and implemented in ways that address existing inequalities and support vulnerable populations.
Juliette Martin will share insights from her latest research on the governance of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) as part of the GADRI Lecture Series organized by the Kyoto University, Japan.
This event is part of the ongoing public lecture series co-hosted by IIASA and the Austrian Academy of Science (OeAW).
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.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes interact across diverse temporal and spatial scales, and datasets are often large, heterogenous and incomplete - AI and ML methods offer new powerful solutions.
On 4 October the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg quietly turns 54. The date matters less as an anniversary than as a reminder of an experiment begun in the Cold War: whether science can preserve dialogue when politics fails to. More than half a century later, that experiment has new urgency.
Where, under future climate, will fire put people's health at risk? And what can we do?
These are the questions we asked in the Fire&Ice workshop that we held on 24 August 2026, at the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) Conference in Québec City with around 28 participating boreal specialists, from students and researchers to practitioners and decisionmakers from leading institutions and organizations.
Resource Transition through Circular Carbon (ReTraCC)
Human activity and climate change are putting growing pressure on water resources, disrupting the predictability of the water cycle, and changing the availability and quality of freshwater. IIASA researchers and partners have developed a new framework for guiding water management and planning at the river-basin level, derived from the existing Global Water Planetary Boundary.
The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2026 on Demography and Human Capital will take place from 1–2 December 2026, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.
IIASA Health, Ageing and Health Systems Research Group Leader, Josephine Borghi, will represent the Institute at the 6th Strategic Leadership Seminar, organized by the African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) in partnership with the Kenya School of Government. Taking place at the Kenya School of Government’s Mombasa Campus, the seminar will focus on Leadership: Anticipatory Governance and Systems Thinking – Leveraging Digital Technology for Public Sector Transformation.
The final conference of the Horizon Europe funded SOS-Water project, titled Defining Safe Operating Spaces for Water-Resilient Futures: Science, Policy and Practice for Sustainable Water Management, will bring together researchers, policymakers, water managers, and practitioners at IIASA in Laxenburg to explore how the concept of a safe operating space can support more sustainable and resilient water management in Europe and beyond.
The final event of the EU funded ForestNavigator project will bring together researchers, policymakers, industry representatives, and other stakeholders in Brussels, Belgium to explore the project’s key results and discuss pathways for the future of Europe’s forests and forest-based sector.
On 15 September, Principal Research Scholar Thomas Schinko represented IIASA at a high-level event of the Commission on the De-Fossilization and Carbon Neutrality of the European Energy Systems (DEE) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW). The meeting denoted the kick-off workshop of the newly established DEE Working Group "Transsectoral and Transcontinental Integration”.
Julia Beier participated in the first in-person Eco-Welfare Network Conference, held in Brussels from 9-11 September at the Université Libre de Bruxelles as part of the Transform-Labor project.