Category: Events

lima, peru, 23-27 october 2025

The 11th FLARE Annual Meeting will be held October 23-27, 2025 in Lima, Peru in partnership with the University of Engineering and Technology.  

The FLARE Network, housed in the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame, is aiming to build upon our momentous 10th Annual Meeting to create an impactful Annual Meeting in 2025. There is much to share and discuss relating to forests and livelihoods in this contemporary moment and we very much look forward to meeting again this Fall.

chicago, us, 16-19 june 2025

The Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress celebrated its fifth anniversary in Chicago, Illinois, held from 16-19 June 2025 at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk hosted by the University of Illinois System. SRI is an annual convening focused on action-forward, knowledge-based and inclusive approaches to sustainability. SRI2025 was the first time the Congress was held in the United States.

SRI2025 spotlighted Pathways to Sustainability Solutions, sharing implementation strategies and legacies of successful approaches to critical sustainability concerns facing Chicago, the United States, and the globe. It also provided opportunities to overcome engagement, policy, resourcing, and other hurdles that slow our transformation to more resilient and equitable futures.

brussels, belgium, 4-5 june 2025

This two-day event brings together nine EU-funded research projects—CLEVER, BioValue, Rainforest, Bamboo, BEDROCK, BioAgora, Bionext, BioTraces, and TRANSPATH—which are working collectively to generate actionable knowledge on how European economies can thrive while reducing their impact on biodiversity both within the EU and globally. Together with policy makers, scientists, business leaders, and civil society representatives,the conference aims to explore practical strategies for integrating biodiversity into decision-making, particularly in relation to EU initiatives like the Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products..

oaxaca, mexico, 4-8 November 2024

The Global Land Programme (GLP) is a global interdisciplinary network of science and practice, working to foster understanding of land systems and the next generation of science-based solutions for local- to global-scale challenges. Paralleling GLP’s 2024-2028 Science Plan three themes inspire these conversations: 1) The state of the world, 2) Imagining the futures, and 3) Enabling transformative changes.

ROME, 3-7 OCTOBER 2024

The theme of the FLARE 2024 Annual Meeting is Imagination and Innovation for Forests and Livelihoods. Forests are under strain across the globe from new and long-standing pressures. So, too, many of the hundreds of millions of people who enjoy and depend on forests for their well-being. The way forward to understand and tackle challenges to forests and people will require imagination. Innovation will also be important. But innovation comes in many forms and some claims to novelty may not be so innovative if a wider lens or longer historical view is taken.  Still, other socio-technological developments– advances in remote sensing, artificial intelligence, drones, blockchain, and more– are clearly new.  What is the effect of such innovations? What is their promise or peril? How are they reshaping what we might imagine about the relationship between forests, trees, and people? 

surabaya, indonesia, 28 July – 1 August 2024

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 13th conference is a conference festival (ConFest) in Surabaya, Indoneisa, in the summer of 2024. ICAS is a global, immersive platform enabling individuals and institutions to come together to exchange views on a variety of issues pertaining to Asia and beyond. The meeting attracts participants from all continents to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines, knowledge sectors and geographic regions.

Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 9-11 July 2024

AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024 is a joint collaboration between the prestigious Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. This conference packs a punch with its exciting features. You can expect a diverse range of sessions, thought-provoking keynote speakers, captivating book exhibits, and delightful receptions.

The theme of the conference is “Global Asias” as a new historical, conceptual, and methodological lens for exploring the multiplicity, complexity, and dynamics of Asia in its manifest and hidden connections within the region and with the rest of the world from antiquity to the present. With the AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024 being held in Indonesia, where pluralism lives in its history, constitution, culture, languages, religions, and physical geography, the city of Yogyakarta will be well suited for our intellectual and cultural exchange on Global Asias. We therefore welcome all disciplinary and thematic approaches to Global Asias: history, literature, religion, cinema, law, politics, labor, economics, gender, archaeology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, media studies, social movements, public health (pandemic) and the environment.

Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024

The 26th IUFRO World Congress is scheduled to take place in Stockholm, Sweden, this summer. IUFRO World Congresses are among the largest global forest-related events. IUFRO World Congresses are interdisciplinary and integrative in scientific content. They are a forum for scientists and stakeholders to discuss technical and societal issues of forest-related research, policy-making and management.

Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, 10-14 June 2024

Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) has united global leaders in research, government, civil society, and business to meaningfully advance progress towards sustainability. The SRI Congress offers an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations and building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation. SRI is co-convened by Future Earth and the Belmont Forum with local co-organizers.