Global Centres Symposiums 2026

Conference Global Centres 2024 4 — © DAAD/Stefan Zeitz

From September 29 to October 1 the DAAD Global Centres Symposiums take place in Berlin. All necessary information regarding participation, programme and organisational issues can be found here.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is pleased to kindly invite the DAAD-funded Global Centres including their partners and scholars to take part in the DAAD Global Centres Symposiums 2026. As in the conferences 2024, the Global Centres for Climate and Environment and the Global Centres for Health and Pandemic Preparedness will mainly have separate syposiums, that take place simultaneously but will have common parts:

Symposium of the Centres for Health and Pandemic Prevention: “Five Years of Impact, Five Years of Vision: Transforming Knowledge into Practice” and
Symposium of the Centres for Climate and Environment: “Bridging the gap: Knowledge, Policy and Practice for Climate-Resilience and Sustainable
Development”

Participation, Date & Venue

The target group of the Symposium is the Centres themselves, with particular emphasis on young scientists. The Conference takes place from 29 September to 1 October 2026 at Tagungswerk, Lindenstraße 85, 10969 Berlin.

Programme

Please find the full versions of our programmes here:

Programme Climate_full version [pdf-file]; Programme Health_full version [pdf-file]

And the one-pager/ programme overview:

Health Centres: Programme Overview; Climate Centres: Programme Overview

In 2024, the Centres for Climate and Environment and the Centres for Health and Pandemic Preparedness had mainly separate conferences taking place simultaneously and with common parts. The Conferences had the following titles:
1. Conference of the Centres for Climate and Environment: "Imaginaries of Climate Futures - Cross Regional Insights to get from Knowledge to Action" and
2. Conference of the Centres for Health and Pandemic Prevention: "Global Actions for Sustainable Health for People and Planet"
The aim of the conferences was fostering the networks of the Centres and similar initiatives, and to offer a global, interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge in the two subject areas of Global Health/Pandemic Prevention and Climate/Environment. The conference was dedicated to PhD students, Postdocs, junior and senior academics as well as research-active practitioners related to one of the DAAD-funded Global Centres and their partner networks, or from other DAAD-funded projects working in the field of climate and environment / health and pandemic prevention as well as the Humboldt Research Hubs (AvH).

DAAD launched a call for proposals to this conference to offer an opportunity for senior scientists, researchers, and young investigators and PhD students from different projects to present ongoing and/or planned research projects and/or their findings to a wider global audience. Active participants got funded for accomodation and travel.

Programmes of the conferences:
Conference books providing an overview about all sessions and panellists, as well as abstracts of the individual presentations and biographies of all participants.
- 2024 Conference Book for Climate and Environment [pdf-file]
- 2024 Conference Book for Health and Pandemic Prevention [pdf-file]
You can read here an article, which subsumes the conference.

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Section P22 - Transnational education projects and cooperation programmes in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America

E-Mail for any matters concerning the symposium: gc-conf at daad.de

Participation, Date & Venue

Programme

Documentation of the 2024 conferences

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