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Please find below an overview of IIASA Summer Schools 

In the face of mounting societal challenges and financial uncertainties, the in-person NATURANCE Festival is dedicated to unravelling the financial, insurance, and investment opportunities that nature-based solutions (NbS) offer. Join us as we explore the untapped potential of the natural world to provide sustainable solutions to our most pressing problems.

Despite advancements in data collection and analysis, bridging the gap between Earth Observation products and policy implementation remains a critical challenge. The upcoming Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2024 provides an ideal platform to explore the pivotal role of Earth Observation in shaping policies and contribute insights to achieving a sustainable future.

We invite you to engage in this academic discourse and contribute to the broader understanding and advancement of urban sustainability and resilience. This seminar series aims to foster a multidisciplinary discourse to address the challenges and opportunities inherent in urban sustainability and resilience, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11. This installment will feature Professor Dr. Nicola Tollin, UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark.

CircEUlar in collaboration with fellow EU Horizon project PRISMA (Net-Zero Pathway Research Through Integrated Assessment Model Advancements) held a stakeholder workshop on 14th March 2024, bringing together experts and decision-makers from industry, policy and civil society to discuss circular strategies in the areas of digitalisation, mobility, and buildings.

IIASA researchers contributed to a new study analyzing factors affecting future wood supply in Europe such as climate change, land use, and policy developments. The authors propose practical response measures for different stakeholder groups, including the wood-based industry, forest management, and policymakers.

In a world faced with global crises, political agendas, and copyright issues, an obstacle emerges between the public and the scientific community: the gatekeeping of information. Ramon Castañeda explores the impact of open science and its potential to make scientific knowledge more accessible.

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded the Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS) project funding of over six million euros for the next five years. This is an important milestone for this new field of research, which is being carried out by scientists from several Austrian institutions including IIASA.

IIASA researchers participate in the 24th Austrian Climate Day (Klimatag) devoted to the topic of "City and Country in Flux" and organized by Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) and the Vienna University of Technology (TU).

Anne Goujon will attend the 14th World Conference of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) at the John von Neumann University in Kecskemét, Hungary.

IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program, in collaboration with The College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, is pleased to announce its upcoming annual intensive training course titled "Demographic Analysis with Applications to Aging and Health".

Join us for this webinar on communicating tipping points as part of a series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping points, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system.

Twenty students from the International Christian School of Vienna, accompanied by their teachers, visited IIASA.