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News
24 October 2025
Defining future directions for open, fair, and sustainable research in Europe
IIASA Deputy Director General, Karen Lips, represented the Institute at the 2025 European Regional Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC), convened by Science Europe earlier this week. The meeting provided an important forum for engagement with global research-policy networks to advance themes of open science, artificial intelligence, fairness, and sustainable research systems.
26 September 2024
In Memory of Yuri Ermoliev
In Memory of Yuri Ermoliev, an outstanding world-known scientist, more than 35 years contributing his knowledge and experience to IIASA research agenda, IIASA Schoalar and Emeritus, “Pioneer” in Stochastic Optimization, Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Dr.
10 July 2024
Latest European Demographic Data Sheet highlights lasting impact of war and migration
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the consequent displacement of millions of people will have a significant impact on the country’s long-term population structure. Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, IIASA, and the University of Vienna are forecasting a substantial population decline of 21-31% by 2052.
Events
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
IIASA Deputy Director General at the First Ukrainian–European Science Diplomacy Forum
Sofia, Bulgaria
Training on Transboundary Water Balance Modelling
IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria and online
Forum on Ukraine Forest Science and Education: Needs and Priorities for Collaboration
Focus
Forest science and education in Ukraine: Priorities for action
Ukraine’s forest sector is suffering unprecedented challenges. War has impacted both forests and forestry – devastating forest areas, infrastructure and industry, as well as causing ‘brain drain’ and capacity loss due to the disruption of research institutions and the displacement of students and scientists. These impacts are compounded by factors including climate change, unstable forest health dynamics, landscape fires, and an overall decrease in forest productivity.
Feasible futures
Policy Brief #41, October 2023. Embracing the notion of feasibility, this research shows that the world will probably overshoot
1.5°C, largely owing to low institutional capacity. Energy demand reduction and electrification are two options to turn down the heat, and addressing weak institutions is crucial.
Projects
Development of a Harmonized Water Balance Modelling System for the Danube River Basin (Danube Water Balance)
Link4Skills (Link4Skills)
Integrated modeling for robust management of food-energy-water-land use nexus security and sustainable development
Publications
Bun, R., Marland, G., Oda, T., See, L. , Puliafito, E., Nahorski, Z., Jonas, M. , Kovalyshyn, V., Ialongo, I., Yashchun, O., & Romanchuk, Z. (2024). Quantifying unaccounted greenhouse gas emissions due to the war in Ukraine – driver analysis, emission estimation, and implications to emission reporting. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20413. In: EGU General Assembly 2024, 14-19 April 2024, Vienna.
Bun, R., Marland, G., Oda, T., See, L. , Puliafito, E., Nahorski, Z., Jonas, M. , Kovalyshyn, V., Ialongo, I., Yashchun, O., & Romanchuk, Z. (2024). Tracking unaccounted greenhouse gas emissions due to the war in Ukraine since 2022. Science of the Total Environment 914 e169879. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169879.
Matsala, M., Odruzhenko, A., Hinchuk, T., Myroniuk, V., Drobyshev, I., Sydorenko, S., Zibtsev, S., Milakovsky, B., Shchepashchenko, D. , Kraxner, F., & Bilous, A. (2024). War drives forest fire risks and highlights the need for more ecologically-sound forest management in post-war Ukraine. Scientific Reports 14 (1) e4131. 10.1038/s41598-024-54811-5.
Sergiy, V., Burns, J., Buck, A., & Kraxner, F. (2024). Forest science and education in Ukraine: Priorities for action. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis , Laxenburg, Austria. 10.5281/zenodo.10803101.
Poblete Cazenave, M. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Household Energy Burdens in Europe following the Russian Incursion into Ukraine. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-23-011
Leal Filho, W., Platje, J.J., Eustachio, J.H.P.P., & Hunt, J. (2023). Collateral Damage: War in Ukraine Endangers Food Security in Africa. In: SDGs in the European Region. Eds. Leal Filho, W., Dinis, M.A.P., Moggi, S., Price, E., & Hope, A., pp. 1-8 Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-91261-1 10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_105-1.