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4 PhD positions in the new PhD Programme in Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change at Politecnico di Milano

Politecnico di Milano just opened the 2022/2023 call for Ph.D applications starting on November 2022 (see HERE) that includes four 3-years scholarships under the new PhD Programme in Science, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change (STEP-CHANGE). STEP-CHANGE prepares the future generation of scientific experts for addressing the challenge of global change and steering society towards a sustainable

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MCAA 9th Annual Conference – Best Poster Award

The study “Farmers’ attitudes regarding climate change: How risk awareness and perception affects adaptive capacity” presented by Sandra Ricart at the 9th Annual Conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 26-27 March 2022, won the Best Poster Award in the Social Sciences’ category. The study, supervised

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idea3a scholarships for thesis abroad

We have released a call for applications for students to write their Bachelor/Master thesis with a DAAD-funded scholarship for a research stay at an ide3a partner university and joint supervision. All information, guidelines for application, and the updated list of thesis topics are posted at this link: https://ide3a.net/ide3a_scholarships_2022/ Deadline is

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A dynamic, network scale sediment (dis)connectivity model to reconstruct historical sediment transfer and river reach sediment budgets.

The eiLab led a study in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Padova and Macquarie University, for the development of a new dynamic sediment (dis)connectivity model, and its application for river basin study and management. The result is the basin-scale, dynamic sediment connectivity model D-CASCADE, which combines concepts of

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eiLab @AGU21

Here’s a list of our contributions to the AGU Fall Meeting 2021: Silvia Bossi, Rafael J. P. Smith, Alexander Flecker, Rafael Almeida, and Andrea Castelletti. Strategic Dam Planning Accounting for Greenhouse Gases Emissions and River Sediment Connectivity | GC15E-0736. Poster presentation on Mon, 13 Dec. Angelo Carlino, Massimo Tavoni and

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1st AWESOME Newsletter

Are you interested in how our AWESOME project is exploring the Water, Energy, Food, Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus? Please check out the first Newsletter here, which summaries the updates about the research carried out during the first year. AWESOME (mAnaging Water, Ecosystems and food across sectors and Scales in the sOuth

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Meet Me Tonight 2021

Sandra Ricart, a postodoc researcher in eiLab, is taking part in Meet Me Tonight 2021 (MMT21) to present its work for the MODFABE project. The MODFABE project deals with modeling the farmers’ behavior in the face of climate change to improve the farmer’s adaptation capacity and increase the robustness of

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