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SCEUS lecture “Science for policy in the EU”
On Moday, 8th of November 16.30 Mr. Luca Onorante, Senior Economist at the European Central Bank is going to elaborate on “Science for policy in the EU”
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Kurt Zopf Prize 2020 awarded to the PLUS
For the past 10 years, researchers at the University of Salzburg have benefitted from the Kurt Zopf Prize, a generous bequest from Mr. Kurt Zopf, receiving up to 10,000 euros in prize money annually.
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Environment & Biodiversity – A new department at the PLUS dedicated to the challenges of global change
Our environment is rapidly changing. Humans have fundamentally changed landscapes and interfered with global processes over a very short period of time, and have in some cases brought them into a state of imbalance. We have arrived in the so-called “Anthropocene” era – the geological age shaped by humans.