The Living Data 2025 conference took place this October in Bogotá, Colombia – a fitting location, as the country boasts the second highest biodiversity in the world. For the first time ever, over a thousand people working with biodiversity data gathered in one place: scientists, museum curators, software developers, infrastructure experts, and even private sector... Continue Reading →
Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change
A modeller from the UK, a marine biologist from the Netherlands, and a policy analyst from Estonia meet in Amsterdam... What may sound like the beginning of an anecdote is in fact a snapshot of 40 individuals, mostly from Europe, meeting on the (sunny!) banks of one of Amsterdam’s canals, coming together for a week... Continue Reading →
EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam: Contribution to this year’s Conference on Making and Doing Transformations
From 16 to 19 July, the EASST-4S 2024 Conference took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. CzechGlobe’s Abhigya and Tereza Prasilova had the opportunity to present their work on two ongoing projects: FoSTA-Health and the SSH Centre project. The EASST-4S 2024 conference was a joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology... Continue Reading →
Unveiling Synergies: Biodiversity and the UN’s Climate Conference of 2023
With the global climate negotiations progressing, and countries now - for the first time ever! - being called on to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, the role of biodiversity in tackling the climate crisis is becoming more and more apparent. Unprecedentedly, the most awaited final text of COP28, the Outcome of the... Continue Reading →
Transformations Conference 2023 in Europe
From 13 to 15 July this year, CzechGlobe hosted the European Hub of the Transformations 2023 conference. You can see more about the conference, and the Transformations Community here. The European Hub was intended as a smaller, intensive in-person conference as a way to maximize inclusive participation while minimizing carbon emissions. The main conference was... Continue Reading →
2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG 2022): reflections on contributions to just transformation topics
October 21, 2022: Earth System Governance Project 2022 conference in Toronto. Photo by Dave Chan. ESG 2022 took place from 20-24 October at Toronto University, CA. The central theme linking all the presented contributions was "Governing Accelerated Transitions". ESG 2022 hosted over a hundred sections, covering a wide range of topics connected to acceleration and... Continue Reading →
The Garden of Budding (Potentially Great) Ideas: What, why and how?
In collaboration with colleagues in Finland and Australia, we have started putting together an Innovative Session Proposal for the Earth Systems Governance Conference, 2022. We have called the session ‘The Garden of Budding (Potentially Great) Ideas, and we are currently seeking expressions of interest from those who want to join to present (online or in... Continue Reading →
Projekt Jedna příroda na Evropské konferenci o ekosystémových službách
Účastníci/autoři: Davina Vačkářová, Jan Daněk, Ivana Žížalová, Johana Drlíková, David Stella Ve dnech 7. – 10. června 2021 proběhla v estonském Tartu v pořadí již třetí evropská konference Partnerství pro ekosystémové služby (ESP) s názvem „Věda o ekosystémových službách, politika a praxe tváří v tvář globálním změnám“. Cílem tohoto setkání je diskutovat současné trendy výzkumu ekosystémových služeb a... Continue Reading →











