BRIDGES Hub Cologne Activities
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Research in the Environmental Humanities recognises the need for better cooperation and concerted collaboration between the sciences and the humanities when it comes to understanding, assessing and ameliorating current and emerging environmental crises. This research identifies critical root...
The Cologne Hub for Planetary Wellbeing invites colleagues, students and partners to join the Club of Rome’s international conference No Limits to Hope: Sense-making for Alternative Futures, which takes place from 4 to 6 November 2026 and is open for online participation.
The conference...
By Dr Nsah Mala, Coordinator, Cologne UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing
On Tuesday 16 June 2026, the University of Cologne (UoC) held its Fourth Sustainability Forum under the theme “Sharing a Planet: Sustainability Transitions and Environmental Justice.” Organized...
On 20 January 2026, United Nations researchers released a flagship report which declares that the world has now moved beyond a water crisis and into a critical state of “global water bankruptcy.” Coincidentally, on 11 February 2026, the interdisciplinary journal Water International published...
Congo Basin Futures (#CongoBasinFutures), a participatory foresight project led by Dr Nsah Mala, was honoured on Tuesday 18 November 2025 in Dubai as the Winner of the inaugural Dubai Foresight Awards in the Foresight for the Planet category.
Selected from hundreds of submissions across 50...
Gerda Kuiper (University of Cologne), Daniel Olago (University of Nairobi), and Juliet Wanjiku Kamau (Bonn University)
This Cologne Policy Insights series highlights the need for sustained exchange and collaboration between policy-makers and scientists in order to synergize efforts for addressing...
Our MESH Leaves of the "EUniWell MESH BRIDGES Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing" Group Work Results are published and available here.
Stories from the Futures of Congo Basin is a project by our Hub Coordinator and 2023 NGFP Judges’ Choice Fellow Dr Nsah Mala, who wrote the foreword below. A complete file of the stories can be accessed at the end via NGFP.
The world’s second largest tropical rainforests are found in the...
BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala
From 5-6 May 2025, BRIDGES Cologne participated in the 2025 Global Solutions Summit (#GSS2025) in Berlin (Germany) through our Hub Director, Dr Nsah Mala. Fondly referred to as the World Policy...
Save the date and register now to the 2025 MESH Symposium on "Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds" on the 11th and 12th of July at the University of Cologne.
Contact
- Kenneth Nsah
- knsah@uni-koeln.de
- +49(0)221-4701826
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