At this year's ISAGA conference (International Simulation and Gaming Association: https://www.isaga2025.com/) in Stuttgart, Rouven Kaiser and Matthias Mittelberger were awarded a Best Paper Award for their joint study on the impact of serious games as interactive climate change simulations.

Research Group “Climate Resilience of Human-Made Ecosystems” (Prof. Dr. Katharina Waha)

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Application deadline: September 30th, 2025

Miriam Rodriguez Carrasco, Anna Maier, Prof. Dr. Florian Diekert and Felix Kotulla represented the Centre for Climate Resilience of the University of Augsburg at the second edition of the Global Tipping Points Conference in Exeter in the United Kingdom.

In the latest “SWR2-Wissen” podcast, Prof. Dr. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, an environmental and preventive medicine specialist, talks about the connection between the environment and health - and how we can accomplish a lot through knowledge, prevention and joint action.

The West African states want to become less dependent on rice imports and are promoting regional cultivation. In the journal Environmental Research Letters, scientists led by CCR board member Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann have now published a study that examines the semi-arid savannah forests of West Africa as potential methane sinks for offsetting methane emissions from rice cultivation.

CCR professor Florian Diekert and colleagues have presented a framework for improved resilience strategies for human-nature systems in the Journal of The Royal Society Interface. The concept provides a better understanding of how, when and why early warning systems and indicators can lead to improved decisions – and when they cannot.

Floods, droughts, and heatwaves are increasing globally. This is typically attributed to CO₂-driven climate change. In an opinion article for Hydrology and Earth System Science, Peter Fiener and colleagues argue that the focus on CO₂-driven climate change is leading to a shift in focus away from potentially more important drivers of floods and droughts: past land-use changes.

Innovative teaching at the ZfK: students from three subject areas are taking an interdisciplinary approach to climate, resilience and serious games. The first World Climate Game took place from 10 to 14 March 2025 as an interdisciplinary block seminar at the Centre for Climate Resilience.

The Summer Institute in Systemic Risks, Cascades and Tipping Points (CASCADE) invites 25 Master and Ph.D. students to the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, University of Split, Croatia, for 10 days from October 17-26, 2025.
Students will receive training in systemic risk, a concept that analyzes the accumulation of risks and tipping points through cascading effects of systems and sectors.

From 17 to 19 February 2025, the German Climate Consortium (DKK) held the symposium ‘Implementation crisis in climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as possible solutions’ in cooperation with the Centre for Climate Resilience. The conference, chaired by DKK chairwoman and CCR professor Dr. Angela Oels, was a summit meeting of social scientists in climate research in Germany.

Manuel C. Kathan and Sebastian Utz from the Chair of Public Finance with a focus on Climate Finance publish their new research paper in the international journal Finance Research Letters.

Just two weeks after the official kick-off of BRaVE, the doctoral students were invited to a workshop on 4 February to sharpen their focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and gain new insights. Prof. Dr. Ulli Vilsmaier from the Responsive Research Collective led the students through this enriching workshop.