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Green light for spatial science Leibniz research network

In future, leading research institutions will pool their expertise in spatial science in the Leibniz research network "Spatial Knowledge for Society and Environment". The Leibniz Association's Executive Board has…

Innovative strength is unequally distributed in Germany

Despite increasing digitalisation, innovations are still concentrated in the large cities and their immediate surroundings. Regions far away from the metropolises remain lagging behind. One reason is the deficits in…

Final conference and policy roundtable in the "RurAction" project

The EU-funded research and training network "Social enterprises in structurally weak rural areas -…

Mobilität in Zeiten der Globalisierung

Unter der Überschrift "The Making and Unmaking of Spatial Orders: Mobilities under the Global…

IfL in brief

Against violence and arbitrariness at universities in Belarus

In a joint declaration, representatives of the scientific community call for an immediate end to violence against all members of universities and other scientific institutions and the immediate release of all persons arrested arbitrarily and without legal basis.

What do we have in common?

In the late July this year, Berlin based Architecture collective, c/o now, preparing video-work as a contribution to the upcoming Tbilisi Architecture Biennial approached our colleague Lela Rekhviashvili to reflect on the core question of the Biennial 2020: What do we have in common?

Wir bieten ...

"ein zentrales und modernes Office im Herzen von Berlin", "hohe Lebensqualität an der norddeutschen Küste", "einen bevorzugten Standort mitten im Herzen der fränkischen Metropolregion" – Unternehmen werben in Stellenanzeigen ganz unterschiedlich für ihr geografisches Umfeld.