Upcoming Events

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is no guarantee that all event notices on the Swiss Science Portal are up-to-date. In case of doubt, please ask the organisers.

3.-11.9.2021
Conference
Marseille

IUCN World Conservation Congress 2021

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Held once every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business, and academia, with the goal of

15.-17.9.2021
Conference

Tropentag 2021 - Towards Shifting Paradigms in Agriculture for Healthy and Sustainable Future

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The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable

18.-27.10.2021
Conference

Evidence for Development

The virtual conference will look at evidence for development that is relevant, contextualized and transferable, that it is communicated in usable and timely ways, and that decision makers can use.

28.10.2021
Conference
Lausanne

r4d Conference: Job Creation and Conditions for a Social and Environmental Impact

Explore the findings of r4d research in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana and Switzerland on job creation and employment conditions, and examine their impact for future projects within the International Cooperation community.

26.11.2021
Conference
Bern

Uncertain Perspectives and Changing Strategies Towards a Pandemic. The COVID-19 Crisis in Tales of the Everyday in Africa

Mural raising awareness on Covid-19 prevention in Githogoro, Nairobi as part of UN-Habitat awareness raising project

Image: picture: UN-Habitat/Julius Mwelu 2020

Swiss Society for African Studies event on perspectives on the insecurities, discourses and strategies linked to pandemics and especially the current Covid-19 context in Africa.

29.5-1.6.2022
Conference
Cape Town

World Conference on Research Integrity

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Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World

31.5-3.6.2023
Conference
Cologne

ECAS 2023 “African Futures”

“African Futures” aims to explore the Europe’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been characterized as a laboratory of the future,

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Transformative Research – The New Imperative in Science?

Reports of past KFPE events