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 Participating Organisation at 8th Sustainability Forum "Earth: A Project for the Future"

Date: 
01/01/2012
Excerpt: 
LIAISE has become one of the participating organisations of the 8th Sustainability Forum "Partners for the Year of Science 2012", organised by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This years theme will be "Earth: A project for the Future". ...

LIAISE Working Papers Series

Date: 
04/10/2011
Excerpt: 
The LIAISE working papers series aims at collecting the output of research on IA and sustainable development from single and interdisciplinary fields of research, addressing sustainability both from social and physical sciences’ perspectives and ...
news

LIAISE Innovation Report No. 3, 'Science-policy Interface'

Date: 
08/09/2011
Excerpt: 
This innovation report deals with the science-policy interface and the interactions going on at the interface. Drawing on writings from the rich body of literature of knowledge utilization studies in political science and in science and technology studies we look at the conditions of science-policy interaction. ...

LIAISE Contacts with Chinese German Centre for Impact Assessment (CGCIA)

Date: 
01/08/2011
Excerpt: 
From August to November 2011, Katharina Helming (ZALF, Müncheberg) is visiting professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research/Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR/CAS). ...
  • IA Topic: IA
news

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.
publications

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.
training

EASY-ECO: Training on Sustainability Assessment in a Transboundary Context

Date: 
14/06/2010
Excerpt: 
The fifth training in the EASY-ECO 2008-2010 series of trainings and conferences provided a possibility for young researchers to enhance their knowledge on and competences in sustainability assessment in a transboundary context.
training