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#EFSES2020 - the European Forum on Science and Education for Sustainability

On 6 October 2020, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research hosted the "European Forum on Science & Education for Sustainability 2020" (#EFSES2020) within the framework of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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Make Our Planet Great Again – German Research Initiative (MOPGA-GRI): Franco-German Fellowship Programme on Climate, Energy and Earth System Research
Franco-German Fellowship Programme on Climate, Energy and Earth System Research

Under the French initiative "Make our planet great again", Germany and France are inviting researchers from all over the world to cooperate with German and French partners.

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Green Talents Competition

The "Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development" honours every year outstanding young scientists working in the field of environmental and sustainability research.

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08.12.2017 – 31.12.2025 Climate Call: Climate change and extreme events
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MOPGA-GRI (Make Our Planet Great Again - German Research Initiative) Annual Meeting 2020
08.02.2021EnergyMarine and Polar ResearchClimate
Annual Meeting 2020 of the MOPGA-GRI Program

Wettlauf gegen die Zeit: Forschungsarbeit zu den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels aktueller denn je

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Picture of Vaal River, Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa
15.01.2021Water Management
New Research Program “Water Security in Africa WASA”

Call for proposals published to support research teams in the initial phase of the WASA program in southern Africa

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24.11.2020Energy
Automatic Weather Stations installed at the pilot sites in Ghana

A team of German and Ghanaian researchers and technicians installed the equipment to collect meteorological data at the health facilties in Kumasi, Akwatia, and Kologo for the EnerSHelF project sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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18.08.2020Energy
Inception Meeting for Atlas of Green Hydrogen Generation Potentials in Africa

The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) is hosting a virtual H2Atlas-Africa project inception meeting. The meeting, to be held on 18 August 2020, will be attended by the Head of Energy and ...

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The 325-metre-high ATTO-tower was inaugurated five years ago
14.08.2020Climate
ATTO’s tall tower in the Amazon rainforest turns five

The 325-metre-high tower was inaugurated on 15 August 2015 and is at the core of the BMBF-funded Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) research infrastructure. Here, research is conducted into the effect of the Amazon rainforest on the global climate.

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