13 June 2017
English
CCCA-News 1/2017: Insights and Outlook
Dear CCCA-News subscriber,
Two weeks ago, the 18th Austrian Climate Day took place at the University of Vienna. In this newsletter, we'd like to share highlights from three days of exchange and networking, and give you an outlook on upcoming events, calls, and climate-relevant content.
Here's a quick overview of the other topics:
- Award of the Golden Julius-Hann Medal to Inge Auer
- Austrian Panel on Climate Change
- APCC Special Report on tourism, large culture and sport events and climate change & invitation to the working group meeting
The CCCA team hopes you enjoy the read!
Climate Day 2017: Review & Photos
The highlights of Climate Day 2017, held from 22–24 May at the University of Vienna, are available to read on the website, where you can also browse through the impressions. Presentations that were given at the Climate Day and made available can likewise be found on the website.
If you're still interested in having your presentation published, you're welcome to send it to us at klimatag@ccca.ac.at.
Green Meeting & Feedback
The 18th Austrian Climate Day was licensed by the University of Vienna's event management team and meets the criteria of the Austrian Ecolabel UZ62 for "Green Meetings and Green Events".
The Climate Day was therefore carried out in as resource-efficient and environmentally friendly a manner as possible!
Is the topic of "Green Meeting" important to you? Do you have any feedback on the Ecolabel certification of the Climate Day? We'd love to hear from you — please share your feedback on the Green Meeting via this link at meetings.umweltzeichen.at.
Thanks to your feedback, we can work towards making the Climate Day even more sustainable in future!
Poster Prize and CCCA Early Career Researcher Award
At the 18th Austrian Climate Day, the CCCA Early Career Researcher Award was once again presented and the best poster recognised. Due to two submissions of equally high quality for the early career award, the Climate Day programme committee decided to award the CCCA Early Career Researcher Award to two young researchers. Congratulations go to Sabine Rumpf from the University of Vienna and to Dominik Thom from BOKU.
For their visually appealing and clearly accessible presentation, high scientific quality, and societal relevance of their poster contributions, Susanna Tscharner (BOKU) and Christoph Schürz (BOKU) took 1st and 2nd place in the poster prize.
Press
The Climate Day generated a great deal of coverage in the Austrian media landscape! You can also find a collection of media reports here!
Thanks & Outlook
Many thanks to all supporters of the Climate Day! You can find all co-organisers and partners here. The organising team extends its thanks for your participation and looks forward to the next Climate Day 2018 in Salzburg.
Award of the Golden Julius-Hann Medal to Inge Auer
As part of the 18th Austrian Climate Day, the Julius von Hann Medal in Gold was awarded by the Austrian Meteorological Society to Dr Ingeborg Auer.
The award goes to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to the science of meteorology and/or climatology. The board of the Climate Change Centre Austria extends its warmest congratulations on this honour!
Austrian Panel on Climate Change
The Austrian Panel on Climate Change has been established and held its first constitutive meeting on 29 May. The panel members were proposed by the APCC working group and nominated by the CCCA board.
We're delighted to have won over Sabine Fuss from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Martina Schuster, Head of the Energy and Economic Policy Division at the BMLFUW, and Helmut Haberl, Head of the Institute of Social Ecology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität and Deputy Chair of the CCCA board, for the panel.
APCC ensures the continuity and process quality of its outputs, as well as adherence to the APCC quality standards.
Full details on APCC and the APCC quality criteria can be found here.
APCC Special Report on tourism, large culture and sport events and climate change & invitation to the working group meeting
As part of the 10th call of the Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP, Klima- und Energiefonds), another APCC Special Report has been put out to tender.
You can find information about the call here as well as under "Calls" on the CCCA website. APCC products serve to survey, summarise and evaluate the current state of science and research, and are developed with the involvement of the entire relevant Austrian scientific community.
To this end, the APCC working group invites everyone interested in contributing to the Special Report on Tourism and is offering support with consortium building as part of a working group meeting. This meeting will take place on 28 June 2017.
If you're interested in attending the meeting and contributing to the APCC Special Report on Tourism, please get in touch with the CCCA office at info@ccca.ac.at.
Science Plan
At the beginning of May, the Science Plan for Austrian climate research was presented. The aim of the Science Plan is to serve as a guiding framework for Austrian climate research and to improve its societal impact and acceptance.
You can download the Science Plan here.
If you'd like a printed copy, we're happy to send you one on request at: info@ccca.ac.at.
Call for papers: 2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Communication
Focus, topic and format
The 2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Communication (Graz, 7th-9th February 2018) will focus on addressing the challenges in communicating climate change across various audiences, hence providing a platform for reflections on climate change communication research and practice. The symposium will also offer a concrete contribution towards a better understanding and in catalysing further action to better communicate climate change.
The symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, mobilizing scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies, undertaking research and/or executing projects on climate change communication across the world.
Here you can find more information
Job Board
Project staff member in Seismology
Research project staff member (75%) at the Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck
Research project staff member in the Department of Knowledge and Communication Management at Danube University Krems
You can find current job postings on our job board.
Upcoming Events
Workshop: APCC Special Report Health, Demography and Climate Change
14 June
Vienna
Climate Change & Health
Workshop 1 – Concept for an Information Brochure
21 June
Vienna
23 June
Graz
In the CCCA calendar you'll find plenty of further information on climate (research)-related events. If you'd like to publicise events this way, please send the details to info@ccca.ac.at.
Use the CCCA newsletter to share your institution's activities with the climate research community!
Heide Spitzer from the CCCA team is happy to help with any questions: servicezentrum@ccca.ac.at, heide.spitzer@ccca.ac.at