Conflicts are an inevitable part of our professional and private lives, even if we often try to deny their existence trying to keep up harmony. Though rightly handled conflicts can be a useful tool to development and show us new ways of co-operation and unexpected solutions. Conflict management defines the process of enhancing the positive aspects of a con-flict and so to decrease the negative...

The exponential rise of projects are a phenomenon of our globalized times. Projects create temporary systems of communication, which allow organizations (private, public, non-profit, etc.) a more agile and innovative approach to a whole spectrum of challenges. A well-managed project will select relevant facts, create meaningful new information and enable organizations to make swift, but sound...

Once more in city hall: Following the great response to the first exhibition in June 2017, „Arts & Science“ will again be presented in the foyer of Hamburg’s City Hall: The exhibition shows images from the micro world of scientific fundamental research at the cluster of excellence CUI – wavelike shapes and color explosions, but also direct images from electron microscopes.

New international perspectives on future teachers’ professional competencies will be the focus of this congress.

The new approaches regard teacher competencies as a continuum which includes new concepts on teachers’ classroom activities such as teachers’ noticing or teachers’ professional vision. These new theoretical approaches are complemented by new methodological approaches, amongst others...

The first “Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit” (HSDS) will take place at the Universität Hamburg from the 26th to the 29th September 2017. The program features workshops, interactive sessions and innovative, engaging methods focusing on the topic of “Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions”. University president Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen (President Universität Hamburg) and Katharina...

The PIER Graduate Week is an interdisciplinary lecture and workshop week for young scientists. It offers a wide range of introductory and focus courses in the PIER research fields of Particle & Astroparticle Physics, Nanoscience, Photon Science and Infection & Structural Biology. It aims at PhD students, MSc students, postdoctoral researchers and other interested scientists.

Stimulating lectures...

New sensors and new algorithms have over the past few years allowed for sometimes significant
progress in our ability to estimate sea-ice concentration and sea-ice thickness from space. In addition
to existing sensors such as CryoSat-2, SMOS, AMSR2 and ASCAT, the launch of new sensors such as
ICESat-2 and additional Sentinels will further widen our capabilities to ever more accurately measure
the...

This CliSAP Workshop is organized by Jürgen Scheffran and Jürgen Oßenbrügge and will be held in Hamburg. Details about the program will follow soon.

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The 2018 General Conference will be held at Universität Hamburg in Germany.

The ECPR’s General Conference remains Europe's largest annual gathering of political scientists, often attracting c. 2,000 scholars from throughout the world and all stages of their career. With nearly 500 Panels taking place across 68 Sections, the academic programme covers the breadth of political science, creating the...