Highlights
The LIAISE Network of Excellence and the larger Impact Assessment Community is vibrant and growing. Numerous activities are going on in the LIAISE partner institutions, in other agencies dealing with IA, and in different countries and policy fields. Here you will find a selection of the most important news, trainings, publications, policies, events&calls, funding opportunities, links and community activities – all related to IA.
LIAISE Spring School in Edinburgh – A Great Success
Date:
15/04/2013
Excerpt:
From 15-19 April, LIAISE organised a Spring School in Edinburgh, Scotland, on "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Assessment and Valuation Tools". 14 participants with 11 different nationalities and with backgrounds ranging from soil research to economics spent three intense days of lectures and group projects. ... OECD Discloses Impact Assessment Studies
Date:
17/01/2013
Excerpt:
The OECD has just disclosed the results of two studies on impact assessments that have been conducted by the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at FU Berlin. LIAISE Innovation Report No. 5, 'Transdisciplinarity'
Date:
15/01/2013
Excerpt:
The 5th issue of the LIAISE Innovation Report deals with transdisciplinarity. It reflects the fact that knowledge production is increasingly transgressing the (disciplinary) boundaries of science and is becoming more inter- and transdisciplinary. ... Policy Relevant Sustainability Research
Date:
10/01/2013
Excerpt:
The publication "Policy Relevant Sustainability Research" guides various kinds of interested parties by providing detailed actor-specific requirement profiles for policy relevant sustainability research that aims to bridge specific knowledge to bear on policy issues relating to sustainable development. Tools in the Policy Formulation Process
Date:
10/12/2012
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The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK is inviting applications for fully funded places in small, research-intensive workshop examining the role of analytical tools within the policy formulation process. Ongoing Evaluation of the LIAISE Project
Date:
12/10/2012
Excerpt:
The Ecologic Institute has been commissioned to conduct an ongoing evaluation of LIAISE which will accompany the project over its course. The main focus of the evaluation is to provide timely feedback in order to induce critical reflexions during the course of the project. ... 2012 Berlin Conference - A Great Success
Date:
06/10/2012
Excerpt:
This year's Berlin Conference on "Evidence for Sustainable Development", held from 5-6 October, has been a great success. About 250 participants from more than 40 countries gathered at the Freie Universität Berlin to present their research and discuss the latest trends in research on evidence use in policy making. ... LIAISE Innovation Report No. 4, 'Ecosystem Services in Policy Impact Assessment'
Date:
15/06/2012
Excerpt:
This innovation report contains an article on "Ecosystem Services in Policy Assessment" by Katharina Helming, Katharina Diehl and Hubert Wiggering (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF). The authors analyse where exactly in the policy process ecosystem services can be taken into account. ... Special Issue: Model-based Systems to Support Impact Assessment - Methods, Tools and Applications
Date:
30/09/2010
Excerpt:
This Special Issue consists of eight papers dealing with approaches developed in these large integrated projects and several smaller projects, all related to ex ante impact assessment of (socio)-economic and environmental research questions in the context of current European and international policy challenges in agriculture. International Summer School on Public Policy Evaluation Research
Date:
30/08/2010
Excerpt:
The International Summer School has been organised by the Network of Researchers on Policy and Programme Evaluation, under the aegis of the Société Française de l’Évaluation (SFE) or French Society for Evaluation, in partnership with the IEP of Lille and the principal research organisms of public policy evaluation in France.