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The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), an IIASA National Member Organization, in collaboration with the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) regularly hosts Joint Academy Days to engage in discussions on matters of scientific and science to policy issues. The next event as part of the series will focus on sustainable energy solutions. IIASA Program Director and Principal Research Scholar Keywan Riahi will participate in a panel discussion.

We are pleased to announce the arrival of four new researchers to the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group. With varying backgrounds and research objectives, this quartet is poised to elevate the group's interdisciplinary research in global and regional agriculture, forestry, and natural land ecosystems.

The Equity and Justice (EQU) Research Group is dedicated to mentoring and promoting PhD students who have an interest in integrating social sciences and ethics in systems analysis.

The BrightSpace Project funded under Horizon Europe brings together partners from across Europe, including IIASA, to design a roadmap for effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and addressing the challenges of EU agriculture to navigate within a safe and just operating space.

Wolfgang Lutz, who will assume his tenure as IIASA Acting Director General on 1 November, will participate in the Working Group Meeting of the Federation of Austrian Industries, focusing on the competitiveness of the Lower Austrian industry sector.

Applications for the spring Science Communication internship in the IIASA Communications and External Relations Department are now closed.

The IIASA TRUST Strategic Initiative is set to take an important role at the upcoming “Connect. Collaborate. Create. Bridging communities to foster participatory research and citizen science” Conference, scheduled from October 19-21, 2023, at Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet in Paris.

Join some of the world’s leading experts for a vibrant discussion about solutions to climate change and what we can all do to advance them.

Using the journey of chocolate, from the sun-drenched cocoa plantations to the sweet bars that we all know and love, IIASA researchers Ali Kharrazi and Zuelclady Araujo Gutierrez recently guided a group of young learners through the practical applications of systems thinking and life-cycle analysis in our everyday lives.

This meeting will focus on synthesizing and integrating the information obtained form all technical work packages, including the results of measurements and modelling. The synthesis will also take into account the results from previous research and from other ongoing projects.

IIASA researcher Ali Kharrazi contributed to the Expert Group Meeting on Food System Risk Assessment at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the World Food Program (WFP).

Organized by the European Urban Knowledge Network, the Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy and the French National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), the event “Driving a just Twin Transition” is dedicated to unpacking the concept of the Twin Transition. Throughout the event, speeches, presentations and panel sessions will delve into the main opportunities and challenges pertaining to the Twin Transition, including ensuring inclusive citizen engagement and fair access to digital and green urban infrastructure.

Wolfgang lutz will present "The applicability and intercultural acceptability of the Years of Good Life (YoGL) indicator in measuring wellbeing" at a roundtable meeting on the Demography of Sustainable Wellbeing organized by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

The 5th European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference will take place in Vienna, Austria, from 3 - 6 April 2024. This is one of the leading citizen science events in Europe, where people from multiple backgrounds and disciplines will discuss citizen science and explore its potential for addressing societal and environmental issues. Colleagues from the Novel Data Ecosystem for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group are involved in ECSA and will run workshops and give presentations throughout the event.

IIASA researchers are collaborating on a new Horizon Europe project, which will use artificial intelligence to help farmers and land managers analyze their soil health without the need for a laboratory.

IIASA Acting Director General, Wolfgang Lutz, will receive the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association for his outstanding scientific achievements and the scientific-political relevance and high topicality of his research. The event will take place in German.

Former Director at the European Commission, Anastassios Haniotis, joined IIASA as a senior guest research scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group earlier this year. We want to take this opportunity to share his journey to IIASA, as well as to highlight the unique expertise he brings to the institute.

Daniela Weber will participate in a webinar discussion on the state of healthy aging and prevention across Europe organized by the International Longevity Centre UK.