Research - Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The German Committee Future Earth acts as the national representative for international relationships, developments and activities within the international research programs FUTURE EARTH and WCRP. On a national level, the DKN Future Earth provides support for interdisciplinary and integrated research and for the identification of relevant research topics within a national as well as international context. In this regard, the DKN Future Earth encourages the collaboration between natural and social sciences, the humanities and engineering to advance research activities that help shape the pathways for a global sustainable society, to find a systematic approach for problems and to generate societal relevant knowledge. The dialogue between stakeholders from politics, economy and society, as well as the integration of their knowledge is a crucial part of Future Earth research activities. The DKN Future Earth supports the German community in these processes and encourages their further development.\\The main tasks of the DKN Future Earth Secretariat are coordinating, organizing and preparing initiatives and activities of the German Committee Future Earth and communicating on the national and international level. A platform for debates on new methods and themes of sustainability research within Future Earth is currently being established and will be maintained by the Secretariat.\\As national contact point for Future Earth and the international Global Change Programmes, the DKN Future Earth Secretariat is involved in many international activities and publishes information about any developments. In the long term, the DKN Future Earth Secretariat will support the dialogue on co-design of research within Future Earth in Germany.\\The DKN Future Earth Secretariat is financed by the DFG for the duration of a mandate period of the German Committee Future Earth
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