Press Release: Summer School 2008: Observing and Understanding Earth

Twenty-eight researchers from twelve countries met from July 13 to 20, 2008 at Konstanz for the international Zukunftskolleg summer school “Observing and Understanding Earth: Making the Most of Environmental Measurements” organized by Dr. Marc von Hobe from Forschungszentrum Jülich. “Environmental problems – particularly global climate change – are an ever growing challenge to humankind. Efforts to overcome this challenge and our endeavour to build a sustainable future require a thorough...

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New Zukunftskolleg Fellows

The first call for application has successfully been finished. The Zukunftskolleg commission has selected seven applicants as new fellows of the Zukunftskolleg, as listed below:

  • Helen Gunter, Department of Biology; previously: University of Queensland; since December 2007 University of Konstanz
  • Julia Jones, Department of Biology; previously: University of Sydney; since March 2008 University of Konstanz
  • Shujun Li, Department of Information Science; until now: FernUniversität Hagen
  • Marilena...
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