Events

📢 We are now accepting applications for the Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration Summer School! 🌳 🕗 16 – 21 August 2026🔎 Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland📝 Application Deadline: 30 April 2026 Join us for the interdisciplinary Summer School, organized by the ETH-Domain Joint Initiative SCENE, the TriNational ForestLab, the SwissForestLab and the NFZ.forestnet. Early-stage researchers…

The SCENE Annual Meeting took place online on January 20, 2025. We presented the achievements from 2024 and heard updates from each of our Action Area Leaders. Thank you for your participation!

SCENE hosted a Joint Initiative Networking Event on January 13, 2025 in Bern with the goal of connecting researchers and sharing information between the 10 Joint Initiatives within the Strategic Areas “Energy, Climate and Environmental Sustainability” and “Engagement and Dialogue with Society.” We had a great turnout and enjoyed meeting…

SCENE worked together with the Pädagogische Hochschule Bern to develop the following three courses, aimed at instructing teachers. All courses will be held in German in a hybrid format (online and in Bern): Energie und Klima: Wie schaffen wir die Wende?Di, 3.9.2024, 17.00—18.45https://www.phbern.ch/weiterbildung/20204611-energie-und-klima-wie-schaffen-wir-die-wende Technologiebewertung: Umwelt, Wirtschaft, RisikenDo, 21.11.2024, 17.00—18.45https://www.phbern.ch/weiterbildung/20204614-technologiebewertung-umwelt-wirtschaft-risiken Klimawandel,…

We are thrilled to announce the success of the SCENE Annual Meeting, which took place on 15 January, 2024 at ETH Hönggerberg — an event aligned with our shared commitment to achieve the Swiss Federal Council’s ambitious goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Updates from the work packages…

SCENE was featured in a presentation at the Empa RFA Built Environment “Mining the Atmosphere” Seminar! https://events.empa.ch/Veranstaltungsarchiv/2023/event.php?vnr=35e-110

Promotion of wood as key element for achieving net zero The PROMOWOOD Summer School took place from 19.08.2023 – 26.08.2023 in Davos, Switzerland. SCENE was one of the organisers of this program, along with the JI MainWood, the SwissForestLab and the NFZ.forestnet. Dr. Esther Thürig (WSL) and Dr. René Steiger…