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By train to the EGU in Vienna

These days, over 180 GFZ researchers are travelling to Europe's largest geoscience conference, with 19,000 participants from all over the world.

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Building Community Resilience through Eco-Social Entrepreneurship

They run repair and lending shops, help to reduce waste, and cultivate urban gardens: cooperative eco-social initiatives play a key role in strengthening resilience in communities. But which structures and financing models have proven effective? And what can German and French projects learn from…

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Professorship for Prof. Claudio Faccenna in Mainz

The head of GFZ section ‘Dynamics of the Lithosphere’ has been appointed as adjunct professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is already professor at Università Roma TRE.

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In FOCUS | Geothermal energy - regenerative heat from the earth (Adobe Stock 55406660)
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In FOCUS | Space weather (NASA)
GRACE Satelliten
In FOCUS | Measurement of the Earth's gravity field: GRACE missions (Filmhaus Berlin)
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Global Water Storage
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Modelling and Visualisation @GFZ

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Contribution to UN Sustainability Goals

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