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Marieke Baaken keynote at the BeSafeBeeHoney 2025 Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The 2nd International Conference  BeSafeBeeHoney – BeeForward: Exploring Beekeeping Innovations and Science took place from 6 to 7 May, 2025, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herze-govina.

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Social tipping point research featured in podcast

BEE group researcher Franziska Gaupp recently spoke about positive social tipping points on the  “Eco Thoughts” Podcast, hosted by the University of Copenhagen.

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LAERE First Congress

 LAERE First Congress took place in Bogota between 19 and 21 March 2025.

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Thomas Falk from IFPRI and CGIAR visited the Department of Environmental Economics

On the 26th of February 2025, Thomas Falk, a renowned Research Fellow in  IFPRI’s Natural Resources and Resilience Unit visited the Department of Environmental Economics and the Institute of Environmental Systems Research (IUSF).

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‘Inner Growth for Sustainability Transformation’ Project Featured on Podcast

Franziska Gaupp, a member of the BEE group, was recently invited to talk about her research on the  podcast ‘Being Underwater’.

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Three new members in our department of Environmental Economics

We welcome Dr. Franziska Gaupp, Ronald Walusimbi and Henriette Figueroa as new members of our team.

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Results from DFG-funded project on vision-building presented at conferences and stakeholder meetings

The results from our project “Envisioning – and discussing – collective action for sustainability” were published in a working paper and presented at several conferences

Franziska Gaupp at the Sustainable FUTURE Summit in Hamburg
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Franziska Gaupp speaks at Sustainable FUTURE Summit in Hamburg

At the  Sustainable FUTURE Summit, a series of events organized by the FUTURE Institute for Sustainable Transformation, experts, decision-makers and interested stakeholders discussed topics relating to sustainable [...]

Thomas Rellensmann, Marieke Baaken and Moritz Fritschle at the REECAP Conference 2024 in Cordoba
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6th REECAP Conference 2024 in Córdoba

From the 24 to the 26 of September 2024, agricultural and experimental economists from the  REECAP consortium met for the sixth annual conference in Córdoba, Spain.

Moritz Fritschle and Thomas Rellensmann at the Landscape Conference
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Members of the Environmental Economics department at the LANDSCAPE conference in Berlin

The  LANDSCAPE 2024 conference of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) took place in Berlin from 17 to 19 September. Moritz Fritschle and Thomas Rellensmann from the [...]