Sustainable Development, science-policy interface, evaluation, Policy Assessment, Energy Policy

HIGRADE Course "Science-Policy Interfaces"

Date: 
03/06/2013
Excerpt: 
The UFZ Leipzig Graduate School offers a HIGRADE Advanced Course on matters related to science policy interfaces and transdisciplinarity.

2nd European Environmental Evaluators Networks Forum

Date: 
09/04/2013
Excerpt: 
The 2nd European Environmental Evaluators Network Forum will take place from 9-10 April, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. The upcoming event will be about the evaluation of sustainability transitions with a focus on innovation programmes and environmental policies and objectives.
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Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development

Date: 
29/03/2013
Excerpt: 
This special symposium explores how the construction and utilization of scientific knowledge in policy making and its impact in the policy process itself can be better understood. ...
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PhD Position: Towards a Science of Assessment Making

Date: 
28/02/2013
Excerpt: 
The group "Assessments and Scientific Policy Advice" (ASP) at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Berlin, Germany is seeking a highly talented and motivated PhD student interested in working in an interdisciplinary environment that explores uncharted, policy-relevant scientific territory. ...
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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on "Sustainable Development: Which Transition for Our Societies?"

Date: 
31/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The overarching theme of the symposium is to analyze how the concept of transition ties in with the notion of sustainable development.
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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.
publications

2013 CCES Winter School on "Science Meets Practice"

Date: 
07/01/2013
Excerpt: 
How can scientists lead a true dialogue with people and institutions outside the scientific community? This is the topic of the CCES Winter School "Science Meets Practice", which will be held on 7-10 January and 4-7 February, 2013. The School supports exchange efforts and enhances capability to create interactions beyond scientific boundaries.

14 Positions of Early Stage Researchers in "Careers in Sustainability Excellence" (CASTLE) Marie Curie Initial Training Network

Date: 
31/12/2012
Excerpt: 
CASTLE consortium – (Marie Curie Initial Training Network) – invites applications for 14 full-time research vacancies for early stage researchers (ESR). Selected researchers are expected to undertake transnational mobility in order to implement an Individual Research Project (IRP) at one of the consortium partner institutions. ...

Researcher in Applied Economics

Date: 
14/12/2012
Excerpt: 
The School for Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen - Bolzano is offering a position as university researcher related to the project "Regional Development in Alto Adige: Sustainability, Cooperation and Innovation".
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