Tilman Brück joined the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at the end of 2012. The BGSS serves as the platform for international graduate training at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Department of Social Sciences. The graduate school's mission is to train and promote doctoral researchers from Germany and abroad/the world for both scientific and professional careers. Tilman Brück ...
Tony Muhumuza will attend the 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics to be held on 23-29 April 2012 in Buch, Lake Ammer, near Munich, Germany. He has been selected as one of the participants, out of a large pool of highly qualified applicants.
The InterAcademy Panel (IAP - the global network of science academies) has appointed Tilman Brück to serve on its Advisory Group for the next IAP policy statement on population. The Advisory Group includes 14 international experts on population and development and is chaired by Professor Charles Godfray of the University of Oxford.Marc Vothknecht is in Jakarta from January to April 2012. He is ...
Another new project funded by the BMBF is entitled "A System of Economic Indicators to Measure Security and Security Provision in Germany" (WISIND). The project aims to measure the state of insecurity in Germany by creating an indicator that tracks security threats and security provision in the country as well as their effects on the economy over the years. It will run from March 2012 to ...
The Department of Development and Security started a new research project on how nomads cope with climate shocks in Western Mongolia. The project will run from February 2012 to December 2015 and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is led by Tilman Brück and Kati Schindler. A project website will be launched shortly.
‘SET-Nav – Navigating the Roadmap for Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy Innovation’ is an EC-funded project which intends to support strategic decision enhancing innovation towards a clean, secure and efficient energy system for Europe's energy sector. The project started in April 2016 and is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. It is being implemented by a consortium of...
Despite of differences in energy politics and supply, Japan and Germany have to master similar challenges: To reorganise the energy supply system with the objective to attain a system which in a long-term shall be reliable and low in risk, resource-friendly and widely climate-neutral. At the same time, the ecological modernisation should maintain, or even strengthen the international...
The aim of the project “Open ENergy TRansition ANalyses for a low-carbon Economy” is to develop, apply and disseminate an open, transparent and integrated modelling platform designed to assess low-carbon transition pathways in Europe. The platform will initially be populated with a suite of state-of-the-art modelling tools by the project partners that will process data derived from the multiple...
