Events

This international and solutions orientated congress invites experts across disciplines to break down academic barriers and jumpstart a broader collaboration on sustainable solutions relevant for society. Also targeting businesses and policy makers, the congress aims to provide a platform for science-policy interface relevant for global challenges.

The congress will host several parallel sessions and a number of plenary speakers. The focus is on integrative sessions with participants from several disciplines. This unique setup will offer a stimulating environment for discussing the latest results in specific topics as well as engaging in a broader collaboration for sustainable
solutions.

Take the opportunity to present new knowledge or perspectives that address the challenges in focus for one of the 15 theme sessions. We welcome all evidence-based contributions that either have a solutions orientated focus on global challenges or provide new insight on the understanding of the challenges. See detailed descriptions and submit your abstract. You can request to present with a session talk or a poster with dealine being 31 March 2014. The final decision will be made by the session organisers.

Confirmed speakers: 
Adil Najam | Lahore University of Management Sciences
Connie Hedegaard | European Commission
Jane Lubchenco | Former head of NOAA
Johan Rockström | Stockholm Resilience Centre
José J. Campos Arce | CATIE
Julian Agyeman | UEP Tufts University
Kazuhiko Takeuchi | United Nations University
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda | FANRPAN
Nina Fedoroff | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Shiyi Chen | China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University

Register now! 
Early bird until March 31 - Standard until June 31 - Late until October 8

Read about the congress on their event web site and follow the preparations and activities on twitter: @GlobChallenges

The congress is organised by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU): Australian National University · ETH Zürich · National University of Singapore Peking University · University of California, Berkeley · University of Cambridge University of Copenhagen · University of Oxford · The University of Tokyo · Yale University and hosted by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is hosted by the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

CCAFS Head of Research Sonja Vermeulen will together with John Porter organise a session entitled “Feeding future generations with limited resources”.

Read more about keynote speakers.

Learn more about the programme of the conference.