A lot has happened since our last newsletter. First of all, we warmly welcome our new GCUA 2030 member, Amoud University, Somaliland. You can read a longer interview with the focal point Yusuf Hared below.
The Climate Action Challenge is about to finish for the year with fantastic results and we hope the students have gained a lot of valuable knowledge for the future.
The GCUA Award is now open for this year and we are also preparing for our four courses this Autumn. You can read more about it on our new website.
Last but not least, get to know two of our member universities, BOKU and BFU, and what they do.
It is time to wrap-up this year´s Climate Action Challenge. After a fruitful and very interesting course, the students are now about to finalize their different projects about nature-based solutions.
GCUA 2030 Award is opening up for 2025! This award is a great opportunity for PhD students or recently graduated PhD students to communicate their research to a broad audience globally.
We welcome Amoud University, Somaliland, as a new member in GCUA 2030. The university was established in 1997 and welcomes students to a wide range of areas. Read an interview with Yusuf Hared, focal point, below.
Earlier this year SLU hosted the international conference "Comparative Agroecology: A Paradigm to Upscale Climate-Smart Food and Water System Transformations" with the aim to examine how a comparative approach to agroecology can support international collaboration and policy development.
To learn more about all the amazing partners we have in GCUA 2030 we invite one or two universities to write in each newsletter. This time we can read a piece each from BOKU in Austria and Beijing Forest University, China.
What role does communication have for sustainable development?
New course at BOKU focuses on scientific communication and sustainable development.
Chinese-led study decodes grassland drought resilience in US and China
A groundbreaking study led by Chinese scientists has uncovered divergent drought survival strategies in Eurasian and North American grasslands, offering critical insights for ecosystem management amid climate change.
On October 16th, 2024, during the Global Ecological Governance (Nansen) Conference, Beijing Forestry University in collaboration with the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), inaugurated the Flyway University Alliance. Together, at the 1st Flyway Scientific Symposium, they introduced the Initiative for International Big Science Program on Flyways.