The CCCA Dialogue Formats
With tailored services and products individually adapted to the needs of users, CCCA offers knowledge transfer between research, policy, administration, business and civil society.
- Single Point of Contact for all questions relating to climate change
CCCA is the central point of contact for policy, administration, business and civil society on all questions surrounding climate change and climate protection. The full breadth of methodological approaches and perspectives from the entire Austrian research community is accessible through CCCA. This makes it possible to provide consistently coherent answers to questions about climate change.
- Dissemination & utilisation of research findings
CCCA works in close cooperation with researchers and as a knowledge broker for researchers. Research findings shouldn't disappear into drawers, but should be tailored for different levels of society and made accessible to a broad audience (federal, state and local authorities, as well as schools and interested members of the public) through open communication channels and via the CCCA Data Centre.
- CCCA Climate Dialogues
CCCA offers the highest level of expertise in developing innovative and tailor-made formats for dialogue between science, administration, policy and business. The dialogue formats are designed for various target groups, such as stakeholders, decision-makers, and different levels of federal and state government, and are fed by scientifically excellent research findings from the CCCA member organisations. This enables the best possible exchange at the interface between science, administration, policy and business. The Flagships listed here serve to illustrate successful formats established within CCCA, which are to be further developed and adapted in line with users' wishes in the future.
Flagships of the CCCA Climate Dialogues
The Climate Day is a scientific conference that is also the most important networking event among climate (change) researchers in Austria. Networking across disciplines and subject areas is at its core: researchers from the natural, social, cultural, economic and humanities sciences are represented at the Climate Day. The Climate Day fosters innovative collaborations to shed light on the topic of climate change from different perspectives and to communicate it to various target groups. A particular focus is placed on cooperation and dialogue with stakeholders from policy, administration and society, as well as networking with NGOs, practitioners and research funders. Special programme items such as the "Science & Administration Dialogue" and the "Pre-Conference Day" have become well-established features, and new formats for this exchange are developed every year.
On behalf of (and in close collaboration with) the State of Styria, CCCA brings together scientists and decision-makers within the framework of the Styrian Climate Forum to discuss current topics related to climate change. The focus topics are defined in dialogue with the State of Styria and are aligned with current, administratively relevant issues. The specialist departments of the State of Styria benefit from the broad expert audience at the workshop and the opportunity to meet all experts in one place.
In particular, the following questions are to be addressed:
- Where is there demand on the part of users?
- What can research already offer as "services"?
- Which subject areas and questions are still insufficiently covered or addressed by the research landscape?
The Styrian Climate Forum is a successful pilot project that has already taken place four times in Graz and once in Leoben, and due to steadily increasing participant numbers it is being extended and rolled out to other federal states.
Climate change communication in focus: K3 is a conference jointly developed across the D-A-CH region, which was held for the first time in 2017 by CCCA in cooperation with partners from Germany and Switzerland. The conference, which has taken place every two years since then, provides a platform for researchers and practitioners in the German-speaking world to exchange ideas and showcase the latest research findings in the field of climate communication: with climate protection managers in municipalities or businesses, politicians and staff from non-governmental organisations, as well as practitioners in media and public relations. You can find more information here.