From September 28 to 30, the fourth cohort of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership started their learning journey with the four academic partners IRI THESys, Leuphana University, Stockholm Resilience Center and DRIFT from the University of Rotterdam. Twenty postdocs based at different European research institutes and universities shared their first ideas on regnerative development…
After the IRI THESys Edible City Solutions Summer School was cancelled in 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic in Berlin, in 2021 the schedule was re-designed to work in a purely digital format – with online lectures and virtual group work. From September 20 to October 1, the EdiCitNet Project team embarked on a two-week…
With two walkshops around Berlin’s water and energy infrastructures, IRI THESys is part of this year’s Science Week. The guided tours with Timothy Moss will take place on November 7 and 10. A ‘walkshop’ around Berlin’s water and energy infrastructures In two guided tours, the historian Prof. Timothy Moss takes you on a journey along…
On September 14th, THESys Doctoral Researcher Fabian Stenzel successfully defended his dissertation on the implications of large-scale irrigated bioenergy plantations for future water use and water stress. Fabian will continue his work at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in a PostDoc project on global systemic risks arising from degradation of the biosphere…
In an audio tour, THESys researcher Timothy Moss guides listeners through Berlin’s infrastructure from the creation of Greater Berlin to the present day. The tour is now available on the berlinHistory app and is spoken by the historian himself. The audio tour leads along the pre-1920 border of Berlin and Charlottenburg demonstrating how the city…
Students of the Humboldt-Scholarship spent a whole year investigating academic travel at Humboldt-University zu Berlin. The results of their research have just been published in a THESys Discussion Paper. How to travel more sustainably? In their research, the students of the Humboldt-Scholarship ‘Sustainability and Global Justice’ 2020/21 analyzed academic travel as substantial source of CO2-emissions at…
Based on her PhD on artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Tanzania, IRI THESys researcher Anna Frohn Pedersen has directed the 60-second film ‘Gold’, which is currently being screened in the metro stations of Seoul (South Korea). Watching the search for gold The experimental film was made in 2018 in the Geita Region of Tanzania,…
How does a gold mine become an exemplary case of ‘cooperation’? THESys researchers Beril Ocaklı and Tobias Krüger, together with co-authors Marco Janssen and Ulan Kasymov, pursue this question in their new article published in Ecological Economics. Taking the discourse seriously: Rational self-interest and resistance to mining in Kyrgyzstan Focusing on Kyrgyzstan’s third largest gold deposit…
Seven IRI THESys Members have been successful in winning the bid for the Einstein Research Unit “Climate and Water under Change” together with a 28 PI consortium including Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité. With the funding from the Berlin University Alliance through the Einstein Foundation, the research team will set up an…
Following his election by the Academic Council in April this year, THESys Member Prof. Christoph Schneider took up his duties as Humboldt-Universität’s new Vice President for Research on August 2, 2021. “At the moment, we are getting to know each other as a team and ‘grooving’ with each other in the various work processes. I’m…
