A Summer School is aimed at providing advanced training for young international scholars on integrated assessment models. It will take place at the Palazzo Artigianelli, Venice, Italy from 30^th June to 6^th July 2019. Moreover, as environmental policy-making becomes increasingly informed by model simulations, it becomes crucial for researchers involved in this science-to-policy dialogue to obtain a basic understanding of how such models work, how they are developed as well as how to interpret their output.

Objectives

The objective of the summer school is to create a community of young scholars from a broad range of disciplines, ranging from environmental and natural resource economists to energy engineers, physicists, system analyst as well as environmental scientists, interested in the topic of modelling human activities and the earth system in an integrated framework, commonly referred to as Integrated Assessment Modelling.

Furthermore, the school will cover the process of modelling the interaction between economic activities and the energy system, land use, forest and agriculture, water, and atmosphere, and whether and how these multi-dimensional implications could be aggregated or traded-off.

Benefits

1. Accommodation, lunches and coffee breaks are provided without charge to all participants of the school.
2. Also, Students of developed countries will need to cover all other expenses associated with participating in the school, such as travel, dinners and local transport.
3. Travel expenses can be offered to applicants from developing countries. In addition, other costs, such as dinners and local transport, will be at the expense of the participant.

How to apply

Applicants are kindly requested to fill in the registration form available from here and send the following to cd-links.summer-school(@)iiasa.ac.at:

• curriculum vitae;
• also, a letter of reference from supervisor (with original signature);
• the first draft of the paper applicants will present (no length constraint).