Last month at the 7th Annual IIES Science & Policy Workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from October 24-28, 2022, IIES was pleased to welcome Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) as our newest member. The MOU signed, aims to facilitate cooperation in academic research related to environmental problems and contribute … Read more
Promoting truly international collaboration in environmental science, engineering, and policy. In this issue, we look at upcoming IIES virtual events, including the 6th Annual Science and Policy Workshop and Graduate Student Forum. Here is an excerpt from this issue: Director’s Message Professor Douglas Evans It has been about five months since we issued our last … Read more
Last week IIES Director Dr Douglas Evans attended the launch of the first Low Carbon College in China. The College is a joint initiative between two IIES member universities, the University of Edinburgh and Shanghai Jiao tong. The college is located in the low carbon city of Lingang, south of Shanghai and offers programs in … Read more
A visit at the 4th Annual IIES Science and Policy Workshop in Edinburgh – lots of science and a “wee bit” whiskey In this post, Verena Sesin shares her experiences at the 4th Annual IIES Science and Policy Workshop in Edinburgh from 1-3 July 2018, co-hosted by University of Edinburgh and the International Institute for … Read more
This year the IIES is pleased to support a new cooperation between post-doctoral fellows and partner universities, the IIES International Post-Doctoral Support Program. The program facilitates post-doctoral fellows to work with collaborative groups from various IIES universities, each post doc is supervised by two or more faculty from the coordinating universities. A portion of the … Read more