The Graduate Academy Water-People-Agriculture invites you to an interesting afternoon in the Balcony Hall of the Castle in Hohenheim.

Invited speakers and scholarship holders of the Anton & Petra Ehrmann Research Training Group will contribute to this year's colloquium to celebrate the UN World Water Day 2024. The event will provide an opportunity for networking and exchange with speakers and fellows on water-related topics.

Location: Balcony Hall, Hohenheim Palace

Date and Time: 08.04.2024, 13:00 - 17:00

When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or no access, tensions can rise between communities and countries.

As climate change impacts increase, and the global population grows, we must unite around protecting and conserving our most precious resource. 

By working together to balance everyone’s human rights and needs, water can be a stabilizing force and a catalyst for sustainable development. 

World Water Day is a United Nations (UN) observance coordinated by UN-Water. Every year, it raises awareness of a major water-related issue and inspires action to tackle the water and sanitation crisis.

Program

Time

Person / Institution

 Title

13:00

Folkard Asch

Scientific Director

“Water – People – Agriculture”

Opening

World Water Day Colloquium 2024

 

Julia Fritz-Steuber

Vice-President for Research

University of Hohenheim

Welcome Note

13:10

Annabelle Houdret

Research associate “Environmental Governance and Transformation towards Sustainability"– German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn

“Local Water Conflicts – Improving Governance to Strengthen Cooperation.”

13:50

Tobias von Lossow
Research Fellow at Clingendael’s EU and Global Affairs Research Unit and Lecturer at at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) -

Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), Wassenaar

“Hotspot Middle East –

Water and Conflicts”

14:30

Coffee Break

 

15:00

Janina Moschner

Researcher Associate” Future water conflicts in Germany (ZUWAKO)

Research Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies, University of Stuttgart

“Future Water Conflicts in Germany. An Insight into Research on an Anticipated Problem.”

15:40

PhD Projects “Water – People – Agriculture” Research Training Group

Vinzent Leyrer

WPA Scholar

(Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation)

 

 “Carbon Cycling in a Future Agroecosystem”

16:05

Abbas Syed Saqlain

WPA Scholar

(Institute of Physics and Meteorology)

 

“Study of the Relationship Between Surface Fluxes and Convective Boundary Layer Dynamics with Lidars”

16:30

Folkard Asch

Closing of the Colloquium,

drinks and snacks