The 2022 Millenium Technology Prize was delivered to Prof. Martin Green at a ceremony in Helsinki on October 25, 2022. A group of journalists, participating in the Millenium Prize Ceremony, also visited SMEAR-III Station in Helsinki and INAR lab at the Kumpula Campus. Journalist from Iceland, India, South Africa and Czech Republic visited at SMEAR … Continue reading Journalists visited SMEAR III station in Helsinki

The Sustainability Research & Innovation (SRI) Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community. The third edition of the SRI Congress, SRI2023, will be held in Panama City, Panama, from June 26-30, 2023, hosted by the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Republic of Panama (SENACYT) and the … Continue reading Call for contribution to SRI2023 and SRI2024 or SRI2025 hosts

The PEEX session “Observation, Modelling and Assessment in the Arctic-Boreal Domain - Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) in collaboration with AASCO - DBAR/CBAS initiatives“ (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/46812) will take place during the General Assembly of the EGU-2023 (European Geosciences Union; https://www.egu23.eu, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 April 2023).See initial announcement at https://peexhq.home.blog/2022/10/10/peex-session-at-egu2023 Important deadlines:1 Nov 2022 - Start of call-for-abstracts and … Continue reading PEEX session at EGU-2022 – Abstract Submission

The International Doctoral School of the Erasmus+ MODEST (https://www.emodest.eu; Modernization of Doctoral Education in Science and Improvement of Teaching Methodologies) project took place in a hybrid mode during October 3-6, 2022 (in Yerevan, Armenia). It has been hosted by the Yerevan State University (YSU) and the National Polytechnic University of Armenia (NPUA). 38 PhD students … Continue reading MODEST International Doctoral School in Armenia

The kick-off-meeting of the Horizon Europe FOCI project “Non-CO2 Forcers and their Climate, Weather, Air Quality and Health Impacts” (Sep 2022 - Aug 2026) took place in a hybrid mode during 19-21 Sep 2022 (Prague, Czech Republic). The project is coordinated by Prof. Tomas Halenka (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) and Prof. Ranjeet Sokhi (University … Continue reading Horizon Europe FOCI project – summary of kick-off-meeting

The Horizon-2020 RI-URBANS (Research Infrastructures Services Reinforcing Air Quality Monitoring Capacities in European Urban & Industrial AreaS; https://riurbans.eu; Oct 2021 – Sep 2025) project 1st Science Meeting will take place in a hybrid format (face-to-face & online) during 19-20 October 2022 (Barcelona, Spain).The project focus is to demonstrate how service tools from atmospheric research infrastructures … Continue reading Upcoming First Science Meeting of the RI-URBANS Project

The PEEX Session on the Observation, Modelling and Assessment in the Arctic-Boreal Domain in collaboration with AASCO (Arena for the Gap Analysis of the Arctic Science Co-operation; https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/index.php/aasco) – DBAR (Digital Belt and Road programme; http://dbeltroad.org) / /CBAS (International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals; https://sdg.casearth.cn/en/aboutCBAS) initiatives is planned for the General … Continue reading PEEX Session at EGU2023

The major uncertainties are related to in Earth system science and understanding the land - atmosphere interactions and feedbacks in the boreal forests of Arctic Regions and High Mountain Asia (HMA), e.g., urban areas and sustainable development in the Arctic and Northern Eurasian. The questions of scientific interest include: climate change, air quality, biodiversity loss, … Continue reading Big Earth Data special Issue

Svalbard-Greenland cooperation workshop “SVALGREEN” takes place on 5-6 October in Copenhagen. The SVALGREEN workshop was organized by SIOS and GIOS. The WS discussed the scientific potential that exists across in the largest climatic gradient in the northernmost part of the Nordic region, from warm Svalbard to cold Northeast Greenland. “Here rapid climate change is taking … Continue reading Svalbard-Greenland cooperation workshop

The 6th Digital Belt and Road Conference (DBAR 2022) was held on the 7th to 9th of September 2022 in parallel with the 2022 International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (FBAS 2022) from the 6th to 8th September 2022. The joint conferences were hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and organized … Continue reading DBAR towards Digital Sustainable Future

The CLIMADEMY project, one of the first Erasmus+ Teacher Academies, has been launched to support teachers with learning opportunities and to develop teacher’s education. The CLIMAte change teachers’ acaDEMY (CLIMADEMY) aims to create a European network to offer a comprehensive program where teachers will interact and learn how to educate the next generation of European … Continue reading CLIMADEMY project

The international scientific conference on “Regional Issues of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Nature Management” took place in a hybrid mode during 21-22 September 2022 at the Odessa State Environmental University (OSENU, Ukraine, the PEEX collaborator). The conference topics included: 1. Scientific and methodological aspects of the system analysis for environment quality of specific regions; 2. … Continue reading Regional issues of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Nature Management

The 1st Annual Meeting of the Horizon-2020 project “Climate Relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and Snow in the polar and global climate system” (CRiceS; 2021-2025; https://www.crices-h2020.eu) took place online during 19-20 September 2022. The meeting started with welcome words and highlights from the coordinators Profs. Risto Makkonen and Jennie Thomas, … Continue reading 1st Annual Meeting of the CRiceS Project

Note the just published overview on "Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources". Read more: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11889-2022 Reference: Meinander, O., Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P., Amosov, P., Aseyeva, E., Atkins, C., Baklanov, A., Baldo, C., Barr, S. L., Barzycka, B., Benning, L. G., Cvetkovic, B., Enchilik, P., Frolov, D., Gassó, S., Kandler, K., Kasimov, N., Kavan, J., King, … Continue reading Overview on “Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sours” published

Daniela Jacob and Sebastian Sonntag (DNK) welcomed European Future National Committees to the meeting 0n 14 September 2022 in Hamburg, to discuss future collaboration between national committees. At the moment there is no joint activities among European networks. National Committee Finland, the “Future Earth Suomi” (https://futureearthsuomi.fi/), chaired by INAR University of Helsinki, Acad. Markku Kulmala, … Continue reading Future Earth European National Committees meeting