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The German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) invite you to attend a conference on “Sustainability Transformation Conference 2020: Socio-ecological transformation on the fast track – Covid-19 as catalyst of change?”.The digital conference will focus on the transformation of the economy and society to ...

We are delighted to invite you to the I, Scientist conference on gender, career paths and networking, to be held virtually on 16-19 September 2020. Registration is now open via https://year2020.iscientist.de/ and we have early bird tickets for the first 50 registrations. This year's conference highlights include inspiring talks by successful female and queer scientists and various exciting ...

Professorin Corinne Le Quéré: „The interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle and the future we choose“ This year will be remembered as the year the world woke up to the climate crisis – and it’s about time! Climate change is unfolding as predicted by scientists repeatedly and consistently over the past thirty years at least. We can now see the changes with our own eyes, ...

Under the camouflage designation "X, Y & Z" French, British and Polish secret services worked together during World War II to decode the German Enigma machine. Before it could be cracked in England, code breakers worked in occupied France and continued their work for the British secret service during the Cold War. Lecture in English with simultaneous interpreter. Lecturer: Sir John Dermot ...

The European Geothermal PhD Day (EGPD) is intended to connect PhD researchers from all over Europe working in the field of geothermal energy and will celebrate its 10th anniversary at its original host institution, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam. Every year, between 50-80 young scientists from various research fields such as geology, geochemistry, rock ...

Professor Susan Jebb "Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy" Poor diet is one of the leading global causes of avoidable ill-health. Obesity, driven by overconsumption, is a key issue, and in most high and middle income countries we also eat too much saturated fat, sugar and salt and too little fibre, which increase health risks independent of weight. Despite the widespread acceptance ...

The "Cultural Heritage and Digitization" Symposium is taking place on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. As part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Fraunhofer IGD, in cooperation with the City of Science Darmstadt, invites national and international experts to come together to discuss future-oriented solutions for preserving cultural ...

Focus 2018 “Gender politics at engineering workplaces” Courses and talks on topics like gender, equality, technology and ethics are on special focus this year. Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions will present their best practices to the participants of ...

The world is turning to its darker face, apprehension is in the air, the Zeitgeist is one of rising anxiety as our social and our tribal selves increasingly clash as we become overwhelmed by the speed of change. Where do we belong when everything is on the move and the ‘real’ and the virtual blend ever more. How can we combine our desire for anchorage, belonging and stability, with our wish ...

The Paris Agreement has been hailed as a landmark deal to fight anthropogenic climate change. But 2015 was not only the year of the UNFCCC’s COP21 in Paris, it also marks the adoption of the 17 ambitious and comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in New York. The SDGs comprise goals as diverse as the reduction of global inequality, overcoming poverty, provision of affordable and ...