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Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Chinese German Centre for Impact Assessment-
Objectives, Tasks and Modes of Operation
Katharina Helming (ZALF) and Lin Zhen (IGSNRR)
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
ObjectivesObjectives
basis for cooperation and coordination between IGSNRR and ZALF for:
• Research
• Scientific exchange
• Training and teaching
• Data exchange
• Scientific outreach and dissemination
• Policy support
• Fund raising
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
History of cooperation• 2005 first Visit of IGSNRR colleagues to ZALF – mutual information and exploration of
joint fields of interest• 2006 ZALF director was invited by IGSNRR as a key scientist of advisory committee of
Sino-German cooperation project of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)• 2006 IGSNRR joins EU FP6 project SENSOR – Tools for policy impact assessment of
land use changes (lead: katharina Helming (ZALF), Lin Zhen (IGSNRR) • 2007 visit of ZALF delegation at IGSNRR – SENSOR workshop and participation in
EcoSummit Conference• 2008 Visit of XiangYuan Yue at ZALF; discussion of cooperation in the field of data
monitoriing and environmental informatics• 2008 visit of IGSNRR group to ZALF, participation in international conference Impact
Assessment of Land Use Changes• 2009 joint BMBF research proposal LUMES• 2009 joint research project Robert Bosch foundation: field experiments and stakeholder
workshops (Hannes König, Yungie Wei et al., ) Guyuan district; ZALF researchers at IGSNRR for 3 months research stay
• 2010 joint FP7 research proposal FutureLand• 2010 Chinese researchers at ZALF for taught module Methods in landscape analysis
(Robert Bosch)• 2010 Inaugural meeting CGCIA
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
ConceptConcept forfor CGCIA CGCIA operationoperation
• Identify research topics of mutual interest
• Identify ideas for joint activities
• Lay down modes of co-operation
• Develop roadmap for co-operation
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Mutual Research Mutual Research topicstopics
• Methods and tools for impact assessment
• Relations between land use changes and ecosystem services
• Multifunctional land use and sustainable development
• Urban-rural interactions
• Forest hydrology
• Environmental modelling
• Participatory methods
• Strenghtening the science policy interface
• Ecological monitoring
• …
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
Joint Joint ActivitiesActivities
• Research projects (EU, BMBF, MOST…)
• Academic exchange
• Higher education; mutual acreditation of teaching courses
• Workshops and symposia (GLP, LIAISE…)
• Publications
• Data and monitoring concepts
• Policy support
• Research agenda setting
• …
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
ModesModes of of CoCo--operationoperation
• CGCIA office – focal point, coordination, dissemination, information
• Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
• CGCIA information platform (website internal/external)
• Roadmap for cooperation
• Sponsorship
• …
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010
RoadmapRoadmap
• Inaugural meeting
• Set up of website www.cgia.org
• Mapping of synergies & complementarities
• Identification of research gaps
• Identification of funding opportunities
• …
Inaugural Meeting,Müncheberg, Germany 17-19 March 2010