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CoCareSociety Hybrid Forum: Join the knowledge exchange!
Are you interested in the health-climate-energy nexus? Join our Hybrid Forum for knowledge exchange! This interactive event series with invited speakers is open to all. Please sign up via email and we send you a reminder and the link on the day before the event.

First results published (open access)
The BMBF Junior Research Group CoCareSociety is happy to announce its first paper in a scientific journal! Explore the article here.

Heads of the Future: Interview with Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann
On 20.12.2023, the CoCareSociety Group Leader Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann was presented as part of the FONA series "Heads of the Future". Read the interview here.

FONA press release on the junior research group CoCareSociety
CoCareSociety is a Junior Research Group and research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the Research for Sustainable Development programme (FONA). Read the FONA press release here.

Next events

Learn where to meet our team next and explore the events organised by CoCareSociety and our partners.

• 07.05.2024 | CoCareSociety Hybrid Forum #4: Prof. Dr. Ilan Kelman
• 14.05.-15.05.2024 | Deutsche IPCC-Jahrestagung, Berlin
• 10.06.-15.06.2024 | Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI), Helsinki, Finland
• 18.06.-20.06.2024 | Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation, London, UK
• 09.10.-10.10.2024 | Forum Citizen Science 2024, Hamburg (tbc)
• 12.11.-15.11.2024 | 17th European Public Health Conference 2024, Lisbon, Portugal (tbc)
• 26.11.2024 | Forschung erleben: Klima und Gesundheit im Wandel, eine Veranstaltung der VHS Geesthacht und Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon (in German) Register here

(tbc=to be confirmed.)

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Last Newsletter

Here you will find our last Newsletter from April 2024: CoCare Newsletter #1 (276 KB)

Past events

• 14.04.-19.04.2024 | General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria
• 20.03.2024 | CoCareSociety Hybrid Forum #3: Prof. Dr. Cheng-Ta Chen
• 12.03.2024 | KulturMärz: Glückstadt im Klimawandel
• 05.03.-06.03.2024 | Congress on Poverty and Health 2024. Berlin, Germany

2023

• 18.12.2023 | CoCareSociety Hybrid Forum #2: Ms. Yu Ping Chen & Ms. Hsin Ping Wu
• 19.10.2023-25.01.2024 | Guest Lecture 02.11, Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Climate change & Health, Universität Hamburg
• 30.11.-01.12.2023 | Planetary Health Forum, Berlin, Germany
• 30.11.-12.12.2023 | COP28, virtual attendance and co-organising the side event Policy lessons from cross-sectoral global case studies tackling climate change effects on health 02.12
• 29.11.-30.11.2023 | Forum Citizen Science, Freiburg, Germany
• 27.10.-28.10.2023 | Fachtagung der Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg: Running into ruin with eyes wide open, Hamburg, Germany (Vortrag und Paneldiskussion 27.10.)
• 10.10.-11.10.2023 | Helmholtz Sustainability Summit, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 21.09.-22.09.2023 | ChangeMaker Academy, The Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science
• 02.08.2023 | CoCareSociety Hybrid Forum #1: Dr. Buyana Kareem
• 24.07.-25.07.2023 | Taiwan Sustainability Hub: Net-Zero with Social Science Forum
• 10.07.-21.07.2023 | Summer School and Workshop, Japan
• 21.06.-23.06.2023 | Herrenhausen Conference: Climate Related Systemic Risks: Lessons Learned from Covid-19, Hannover, Germany
• 25.05.-26.05.2023 | CoCareSociety Kick-Off Seminar, Hamburg, Germany
• 19.04.-20.04.2023 | FONA Kick-Off-Fachkonferenz, Bonn, Germany

2022

• 30.11./12.12.2022 | CoCareSociety Kick-off Meeting, online. Two online meetings due to different time zones among the project partners

Reports

More info coming soon!

Kick-off event of the BMBF Junior Research Group CoCareSociety

Recap of the Kick-off event from the BMBF Junior Research Group CoCareSociety

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CoCareSociety Kick-off event (May 2023) at GERICS / Photo: Knut Goerl, GERICS

The kick-off event of the junior research group CoCareSociety was held on May, 25th, 26th and 30th, 2023 at the GERICS (Climate Service Center Germany) in Hamburg. On the first day of the event, team members, international partners and practioners gathered in the GERICS conference room. The central focus was to present the project intend of the CoCareSociety junior research group and to encourage discussions by presentations of the international partners. After a detailed presentation of the project by Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann as head of the research group, the director of GERICS and the mentor of the research project, Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob, welcomed all participants.

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CoCareSociety Kick-off event (May 2023) at GERICS, Dr. Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann / Photo: Knut Goerl, GERICS

Moreover, there were interdisciplinary keynote speeches that bring further input to the research of the health-climate-energy nexus:

• Dr. Shih-Chun Candice Lung on “Transdisciplinary collaboration on establishing a heat-health warning system”
• Dr. Laurens Bouwer on “ Machine learning applications in climate change and health research”
• Prof. Dr. Kristie Ebi on “Challenges and opportunities of climate change and health for future societies”
• Prof. Dr. Virginia Murray on “Reflections to support Co-Creating Climate Services for Caring Economy and Caring-Society”
• Dr. Sokhna Thiam on “Cross-continental challenges : How Africa is taking up health and energy challenges”
• Dr. Buyana Kareem on “Climate change – Energy poverty -Nexus really visible in Africa”

On the following day, the relations between health, climate change and energy security were elaborated and presented from different perspectives using a mental model approach. The international background of every participants opened up new perspectives.

The last day of the kick-off event, the so-called "Heatwave Day", focusing on measurements to face the increasing heatwaves. The following experts gave presentations:

• Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann on “Heat stress and climate change"
• Dr. Shih-Chun Candice Lung on "Transdisciplinary collaboration on establishing a heat-health warning system"
• Prof. Dr. Masahiro Hashizume on "Extreme heat, energy demands and health adaptation".

Status as of 25 April, 2024