On 5-6 December 2023 as part of PACT4Ukraine project and DAAD project “Science Diplomacy in Active Conflicts” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg will host an international conference: “State-building in face of crisis: challenges and lessons learned” in Erlangen and Nürnberg. The conference will include discussions on topics such as democratisation processes, good governance, EU integration, the rule of…
November 10th is the birthday of Elisa L. Zamfirescu, the woman who inspires the name of our EELISA Alliance. She was the first female engineer in Europe and, after a successful career as leader of several geology laboratories, she became an activist for disarmament and against nuclear threats during the Cold War times. In addition,…
Four days after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the EU sanctions imposed on Russia as well as the wider political context would make the continuation of the ExoMars program—a joint ESA and Roscosmos (Russian federal space agency) space mission scheduled for…