News
This section offers the most recent news on the work and outcome of the LIAISE network activities. The monthly LIAISE News Bulletin, the bi-annual Innovation Report, and a direct access to all official project deliverables and to partner contributions and homepage issues relevant for Impact Assessment. News include an up-to-date calendar of events, publication lists, training schools, Toolbox Front office activities, and targeted policy information. Core LIAISE news will be supplemented by information on relevant institutional and individual achievements, modification of the consortium, Policy Advisory Board insights and other topics.
LIAISE Annual Meeting 2012
Date:
14/03/2012
Excerpt:
LIAISE will hold its 3rd Annual Meeting in Bilbao, hosted by TECNALIA, from 14-16 March, 2012. A major new element in the LIAISE Annual Meeting in Bilbao is the outreach to external groups/projects that are relevant to LIAISE objective to build a community of IA researchers and practitioners that will continue beyond the period of project funding. 2011 Lasswell Prize for Researchers in the Tyndall Centre
Date:
06/03/2012
Excerpt:
Researchers in the Tyndall Centre – a partner in the LIAISE Consortium – have been awarded the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize for their analysis of the little studied but politically vital practices of climate policy evaluation in Europe. POSTnote Report on "Seeking Sustainability", Co-authored by LIAISE Researcher Andrew Jordan
Date:
01/03/2012
Excerpt:
LIAISE researcher Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, was involved in the writing of the report "Seeking Sustainability" of the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. LIAISE at the Leuphana Sustainability Summit
Date:
29/02/2012
Excerpt:
At the Leuphana Sustainability Summit, which will be held in Lüneburg, Germany, from 29 February - 2 March, 2012, LIAISE organises a special session and a workshop. ... Two Workshops on Climate Policy Innovation
Date:
22/02/2012
Excerpt:
The Tyndall Centre in the UK is inviting applications for funded places in a series of two small, research-driven workshops examining the politically highly salient theme of climate policy innovation. ... Keynote Address at EEEN Forum in Leuven
Date:
09/02/2012
Excerpt:
On 9 February, 2012, LIAISE co-coordinator Klaus Jacob gave a keynote address at the European Environmental Evaluators Network forum in Leuven. His speech was entitled “Enhancing the use of impact assessment tools in policy making: bridging the gap between science and the policy making community”. LIAISE News Bulletin - 11th Issue
Date:
08/02/2012
Excerpt:
The Freie Universität Berlin and the LIAISE Network of Excellence invite papers for the 2012 'Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change', which will be the 11th event in the series of annual European Conferences. This year's conference theme "Evidence for Sustainable Development" addresses the knowledge basis of ... LIAISE Toolbox Update No. 3: Development of Beta Platform Started
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
LIAISE is developing a Shared Toolbox as a virtual platform for interaction between researchers and practitioners of Impact Assessment (IA). After a successful launch of an Alpha prototype, the implementation of the Toolbox Beta has now started. ... Resource Policy in Germany
Date:
15/01/2012
Excerpt:
LIAISE partner FUB leads a consortium in a 3 year´s project on “resource policy”, commissioned by the Federal Environmental Agency. A consortium with six renowned partners was formed. In the course of the project, several impact assessments will be conducted. First LIAISE Winter School Successfully Finished
Date:
13/01/2012
Excerpt:
From 10-13 January, 2012 the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig hosted the first LIAISE Winter School on "Tools and Modelling for Impact Assessment". 18 participants from eleven different countries discussed on tool use, modelling approaches, policy assessment and sustainability.