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Polises at Agra

by Julia Kunkel

Every two years Leipzig hosts the Agra, a large agricultural fair for central Germany...

 

 

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InsuranceGrass Retreat in Leipzig

by Julia Kunkel

This year, the InsuranceGrass retreat took place in Leipzig on March 14 and 15...

 

 

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UFZ Winter School 2024

by Jonathan Haag

From February 29 to March 09, the department for ecological modelling (OESA) organized the UFZ Winter School 2024 "Introduction to Ecological Modelling"...

 

 

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POLISES retreat at Großbothen

by Kaja Alina Jurak

In May 2023 Birgit, Gunnar, Julia and Kaja went to the Wilhelm Ostwald Park in Großbothen for the yearly POLISES retreat... 

 

 

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InsuranceGrass Retreat at ETH Zurich

by Julia Kunkel

After one year of online collaboration, Birgit and Julia met the InsuranceGrass project team in Zurich for a two days retreat... 

 

 

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Leverage Points and Transformational Leadership: impressions from Lüneburg

by Gunnar Dreßler

In early February, I embarked on a trip to the north of Germany where I spent one week in the beautiful town of Lüneburg, attending the Leverage Points conference and the second seminar of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership...

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A summer full of conferences

by Meike Will

This summer, I got the chance to visit three very different conferences around the world. My conference experience began with the...

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POLISES at the Resilience Conference 2017

by Gunnar Dreßler

Once every three years, scientists, practitioners – and even artists – from all over the world gather together for the Resilience Conference to discuss research on social-ecological systems under transformations. From August 21-23, 2017, Stockholm served as an exceptionally pleasant host for this year’s conference, which Birgit, Gunnar and our cooperation partner Lance Robinson attended...

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Social-ecological modelling at the American West Coast

by Birgit Müller

In the second half of April I had the chance to attend three interesting events in California and Oregon.  First I took part in the Agent-based Modelling Symposium ABM 2017...

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Felix's research stay in sunny Arizona

by Felix

It is always fascinating to experience a change of scenery for a while. And I was very lucky that our project funds contained money for 3-months research stays abroad. Therefore, I want to explicitly thank the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research for the funding that made this endeavor possible in the first place...

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