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Options Magazine, Winter 2023: Soybean is a critical global crop facing growing climate-related vulnerabilities. IIASA researchers emphasized the urgent need for adaptation strategies to secure soybean supply chains in a recent study.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: A recent study shed light on the gap in residential building life-cycle assessment studies, which disproportionately exclude low- and middle-income countries.

To celebrate GIS Day, the Department of Civil Engineers and Geomatics at the Cyprus University of Technology is hosting a one-day conference, bringing together a wide variety of users of spatial data from academia to the public sector and commerce.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: In many parts of the world, access to freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce. Nowhere is this truer than in South Africa, which experienced a significant drought from 2015 to 2018.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: There has been much debate around the impact of climate change on migration. The international discourses around this topic, however, have often been more politically charged and less backed by science.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: The IIASA Biodiversity Club offers both a respite from desk work and an opportunity for staff members to bond over encounters with local flora and fauna.

By how much did life expectancy fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic? A new study suggests that pandemics require a new method to accurately calculate life expectancy: “hybrid life expectancy” takes the duration of the pandemic into account, revealing that health crises have much smaller impact on life expectancy than previous studies have suggested.

The IIASA Connect Feature series shines a spotlight on the opportunities and achievements within our network. Register now for our event on 31 January 2024 where we will discuss The Language of Co-Production to Transform Collaborations with Maggie Dugan, Founder of Inclusive Innovation.

The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) organizes the Sixteenth IAMC Annual Meeting 2023, taking place in Venice, Italy.

Options Magazine, Winter 2023: The Austrian Research Promotion Agency has ranked IIASA as one of the top participants in the Horizon Europe Programme, reflecting the institute's commitment to addressing pressing global challenges and advancing sustainable solutions.

Michael Kuhn was invited to speak on the occasion of the 10^th Anniversary of the Department of Health Economics at the Medical University Vienna, delivering a talk on the nexus between medical progress, ageing, and health care spending growth.

Econ4um (Economics Forum) is a seminar series organized by the EF Program. The goal of this series is to engage the discussion and cooperation of economic questions arising in the various fields covered by IIASA research. The invited speakers include researchers from all IIASA programs as well as international experts. Below you can find the comprehensive list of previous presentations. Furthermore, the Econ4um also hosts a bi-yearly special seminar series on “Modelling Resilience and Disruptive Changes”.

IIASA researchers contributed to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s World Energy Outlook, which shows that there are set to be almost 10 times as many electric cars on the road, renewables are nearing half of the global power mix, and much stronger policies are needed to achieve the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement.

The G20 is a global platform for the discussion of cooperation, policy, and governance pathways aligned with the common interests of its member states, which include the world’s largest economies. This year, to support the G20 process, IIASA produced four policy papers providing insight into the complexities of potential multilateral institutional reforms.

The annual meeting of the LAMASUS project will take place at the end of November 2023. Senior Research Scholar Linda See (and LAMASUS work package leader) will present the status of the LAMASUS geodatabase on land use management to the consortium and to the science and policy advisory board.

The IIASA Tools for Raising and UnderStanding Trust in systems science through citizen engagement (TRUST) Strategic Initiative is organizing a 1.5 days' workshop at IIASA. The workshop will take place on 30 November and 1 December 2023 and is part of the activities of the Strategic Initiatives Program.  

Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? Join our upcoming information webinars on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring previous participants and representatives of IIASA's National Member Organizations.

Big Data from Space 2023 (BiDS) brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase latest technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and big data technologies. 

Two new studies produced by an international team, including a scientist working in partnership with IIASA, demonstrate that the impact of the global rubber trade on forests and biodiversity has been substantially underestimated and new sustainable solutions are urgently needed to address this problem.