News Archive
2nd International Conference on Planet Under Pressure -
New Knowledge Towards Solutions
London, United Kindom
Seminarserie für Doktorandinnen und Postdoktorandinnen des SPP "MegacitiesMegachallenge“ und des SFB806 "Our Way to Europe"
Cologne, Germany
International Geographical Congress 2012 - Call for Abstracts closes on 15 Dec
Cologne, Germany
International Summer School 2011 "Spatial Epidemiology in Megacities: Statistical and spatial analysis of Health under a changing climate"
Bielefeld, Germany
Utah, US
Interdisziplinäre Konferenz an der Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin
Cardiff, Wales
Kassel, Germany
Bensberg (near Cologne)
Rauischholzhausen
Guangzhou, China
Water Scarcity Winter School 2011, Salzburg 
Universität zu Köln 
Tagung „Stadt und die Veränderung sozialer und physischer Umwelten“
The interdisciplinary congress for a cross-generational dialogue about issues of our common future
Meeting of the Geographical Working Group on Development Theories, 29-31 October 2010, in Innsbruck (Austria)
International Conference "Future Megacities in Balance – New Alliances for Energy- and Climate-Efficient Solutions", 11.-13.10.2010, in Essen
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IHDP-UGEC: International Conference "Urbanization and Global Environmental Change", Tempe, Arizona (USA)
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May 10-11, 2010 - Berlin, Germany
June 21-23, 2010 - Gießen, Germany: international open workshop on the role of local embedding of transnational corporations, knowledge transfer and local network dynamics in the process of technological upgrading in Chinas regional economic centres.
"Adapting to Urban Change and Development:
The Role of Self-Organisation in Cities", 21.-24. July, Passau, Germany
July 26-29, 2010 - Bonn, Germany
Session on "Urban Governance Concepts and Research in China - Adaptation or Application?", April 14-18, 2010 - Washington, DC
DFG issued call for third phase! Deadline: 15.04.2010
Joint Workshop of SPP and BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Workshop on theoretical concepts and frameworks, Berlin, Germany
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
"Urban Informality in PRD – The state, key actors, determinants and trends"
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International Forum "Megacities: Interactions between land use and water management", Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Submission deadline for abstracts: 05.08.2009
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The Second International Conference on Geographical Higher Education, Research and Application in China and Germany, Guangzhou, China.
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Symposium: "Life and Survival in a Megacity. The Role of Informal Arrangements in Everyday Life and Economic Organisation. Case Studies from Dhaka, Bangladesh", 16.10.2009, 14:00-18:00, Berlin, Rotes Rathaus. Reservation required.
12.-13.10.2009, Hilter/Osnabrück.
Time and space for exchange and discussions, to relax and look back on 2 years of work...
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Invitation for the 5-days summerschool, 7.-11.09.2009, in Bielefeld
"Stoffverhalten und -wirkungen in Umweltkompartimenten", 23. -25. September 2009 in Trier. Spezialthema: Umweltbelastung in Schwellenländern und Megacities. Submission deadline for papers: 15.06.2009
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4. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Geographische Stadtforschung im Entwicklungskontext in der DGfG, 5.-7. Juni 2009, Innsbruck
Prof. Dr. Neil Adger: "The unlikely transformation of societies in response to climate change"
Monday, 8. June 2009, 18.15 Uhr, Universität Bonn
On 25.-26. February 2009 researchers and experts from Bangladesh, China and Germany meet in Dhaka, Bangladesh to exchange on informal urban dynamics.
On 13. and 14. November 2008 about 50 researchers of the priority program "Megacities-Megachallenge" met in the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China) for the 5th Program Cooperation Workshop.
12.11.2008, Guangzhou - presentation of the priority program
On 03.-06.11.2008 the SPP was present on the German exhibition booth of the Fourth World Urban Form in Nanjing.
September 23-24, 2008, University of Bielefeld
On 01.-02. July 2008 the PhD candidates of the Megacities-Megachallenges-program will come together to discuss theoretical, practical and organisational issues of their ressearch work in PRD and Dhaka.
On 03.06.-01.07.2008 the members of the priority program convene to exchange and discuss about theoretical aspects of urban informal dynamics and global change processes.
At the colloquium the participants of the SPP as well as external experts met to discuss and exchange the program's research progress. The event took place on 28. and 29. January in Berlin.
In Guangzhou and Dhaka the Bangladeshi, Chinese and German scientists participating in the SPP came together to discuss informal aspects of megaurban developments and their connections with global change processes. The workshop in Guangzhou took place on 19. and 20. November, the one in Dhaka on 22. November.
At the workshop the project coordinators convene to discuss organizational issues. The event will take place on 18. and 19. June in Bensberg, near Cologne.
At the workshop the PhD-candidates and research assistants convene to discuss scientifical and organizational issues. The event will take place on 19. and 20. June in Bensberg, near Cologne.
At the workshop the project coordinators convene to discuss organizational issues. The event will take place on 18. and 19. June in Bensberg, near Cologne.
At the DGA annual conference in Berlin participants of different projects of the SPP met to discuss joint steps ahead for the program.