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30 Sep 2025 / News, Continuing Education

Energy Communities Leadership Programme – Register Now!

We are excited to announce the launch of the Energy Communities Leadership Programme, organized by the HORIZON Europe ENPOWER project, with the involvement of three members of the Sustainability Research Group: Dr Annika Sohre, Dr Iljana…

24 Sep 2025 / News, Research, People

SweetRefuel Annual Assembly: Insights on Public Acceptance of Sustainable Fuels

At the annual SweetRefuel assembly at the Paul Scherrer Institute, our team presented new survey results showing that sustainable and alternative fuels enjoy broad acceptance among the Swiss public.

22 Sep 2025 / News, Events, Campus

Forum Basiliense Lecture Series: Exploring the Anthropocene Together

From deserts to climate change, from heritage to religion: the Forum Basiliense Lecture Series 2025 dives deep into the Anthropocene.

21 Sep 2025 / News, Events, People

Sustainable Future Research Lunch – Autumn 2025

The Sustainable Future research network invites you to its upcoming Research Lunches at the Faculty of Law (Seminar Room S2, HG.35), every Friday from 12:30–13:15. This autumn, speakers will address topics ranging from renewable energy and…

[Translate to English:] Superblock Basel

27 Aug 2025 / News, Research, People

Superblocks in Basel

Less traffic, more green space, play, and community: On Saturday 16th of August, researchers from the sustainability research group were invited to the opening of the new Superblock test in the St Johann district in Basel.

02 Jun 2025 / News

Welcome: Dr. Alexandra Bögner joins the Sustainability Research Group

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Alexandra Bögner as our new postdoctoral research associate in the Sustainability Research Group. We wish her a great start and look forward to working together!

14 Apr 2025 / News

Warm welcome to our new PhD candidate, Lucia Casalegno

We are very pleased to welcome Lucia Casalegno as a new PhD candidate in the Sustainability Research Group. Within the EXPECT-AGRI project (led by Prof. Janina Grabs), she researches the implementation of due diligence legislation in…

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09 Oct 2025

12:15 - 13:45

Spalenberg 65, 4051 Basel, 1st floor

Organizer:
Forum Basiliense

Events, Colloquium

Tracing the biological time-depth of the Anthropocene: The use of paleo-biological data to study human impact on the Neotropics

Colloquium Forum Basiliense – Fall Term 2025 with Óscar Soils Torres

10 Oct 2025

12:15 - 13:15

Faculty of Law, Seminar Room S2, HG.35

Organizer:
Sustainable Future Research Network

Events, Public event

The EU Deforestation Regulation implementation in Colombia: Advances and Roadblocks

Sustainable Future Research Lunch

16 Oct 2025

12:15 - 13:45

Spalenberg 65, 4051 Basel, 1st floor

Organizer:
Forum Basiliense

Events, Colloquium

Deserts in Focus: Thinking with Deserts as Sites of Politics, History, Science, Security, Human Habitation and the More-than-Human World

Colloquium Forum Basiliense – Fall Term 2025 with Vanessa Lehmann

24 Oct 2025

12:30 - 13:15

Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S2, HG.35

Organizer:
Forschungsnetzwerk Sustainable Future

Events, Colloquium

Shifting Baselines and Hidden Long-Term Flood Risks

Sustainable Future Research Lunch

30 Oct 2025

12:15 - 13:45

Spalenberg 65, 4051 Basel, 1st floor

Organizer:
Forum Basiliense

Events, Colloquium

A Collection of Debateable Information on Climate Change

Colloquium Forum Basiliense – Fall Term 2025 with Doriana Cimmino

31 Oct 2025

18:00

Gehry Auditorium, Novartis Campus, Fabrikstrasse 15, 4056 Basel.

Organizer:
Forum Basiliense

Events, Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

Forum Basiliense Lecture with Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann: "Tipping points in the climate system. Harbingers from the polar ice"

Prof. Ricarda Winkelmann, renowned physicist and climate scientist, provides fascinating insights into the dynamics of ice sheets, ecosystems and global change processes.

06 Nov 2025

12:15 - 13:45

Spalenberg 65, 4051 Basel, 1st floor

Organizer:
Forum Basiliense

Events, Colloquium

Nature in the Anthropocene: Exploring new conservation pathways in the confluence of natural, human and social sciences

Colloquium Forum Basiliense – Fall Term 2025 with Elena Concepción