Sixteen Researchers from four continents contributed to a whole-day symposium organised by DIE’s Middle East and North Africa team at this year’s DAVO conference. DAVO – the German Middle East Studies Association – brings together several hundred people each year – this year on 3-5 October in Hamburg. And DIE presented itself as a centre…
What opportunities do audio-visual media and digital social media campaigns offer to sensitise the public to global problems and inform them about development policy approaches to combat them? This was the theme of the „Global Day“ on 15 October 2019 at this year’s Film Festival Cologne, to which Engagement Global, the Film Festival Cologne, MISEREOR,…
Dialogue-Forum on Sustainable Public Procurement for Strategic Policy Goals will be consolidated as Strategic Knowledge Platform From 28 until 30 October 2019, a dialogue forum took place at DIE in Bonn within the framework of the project „Municipalities Promoting and Shaping Sustainable Value Creation (MUPASS) – Public Procurement for Fair and Sustainable Production“. It was…
Axel Berger presented the new Investment Facilitation Index (IFI) at the Public Forum of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 10 and 11 October 2019 in Geneva. The index maps the adoption of investment facilitation measures at domestic level and serves as a basis for future research on the economic benefits and costs of an…
On 9 October 2019, participants from diverse European and international research institutions, civil society organizations as well as from different Directorate Generals of the European Commission gathered in Brussels for a workshop to discuss the role of science and science policy for sustainable development with members of the international group of scientists who recently issued…