TRA Sustainable Futures Networking Events
In addition to its general assemblies, TRA Sustainable Futures regularly organizes various events that offer opportunities for networking and professional development. On this page, you will find upcoming events as well as highlights from past events.
Summer School: "Nutritional Epidemiology"
August 24–28, 2026
From August 24-28, 2026, Prof. Dr. Ina Danquah, Hertz-Chair for Innovation for Planetary Health and Director at ZEF and Prof. Dr. Ute Nöthlings, Head of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, hosted 20+ participants and six facilitators for an engaging summer school on Nutritional Epidemiology at ZEF.
Networking Event : Sustainability for Life, Health and Planet
The Transdisciplinary Research Areas “Sustainable Futures” and “Life and Health” hosted the joint networking event "Sustainability for Life, Health and Planet" on October 7, 2025.
Following a joint visit to the exhibition "What the health?" at the Museum Koenig in Bonn, the two TRAs invited participants to continue networking at the IMPULSE venue.
In addition to short keynote talks by Prof. Ina Danquah and Prof. Nicolas Gompel, all participants had the opportunity to introduce themselves in a one-minute flash talk using one slide or an object.
Summer School: "Digital Innovation in Nutritional Epidemiology"
August 25-29, 2025
Hertz-Chair Prof. Ina Danquah, Director at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Head of ZEF's Research Division of Nutrition and Planetary Health (HEALTH), and her team hosted a Summer School at the University of Bonn. The Summer School linked up the themes covered in various collaborative HEALTH projects. Around 25 international PhD students participated.
Workshop: Change Agents for Sustainable Transitions
May 5, 2025
The TRAs Individuals and Societies and Sustainable Futures hosted a workshop for (Post)doctoral researchers at the University of Bonn on the question "How can Individuals, Societies, Institutions, Technologies, and Innovations bring knowledge
into action?" Researchers hat the opportunity to expand their network, learn about funding opportunities and receive feedback in order to deepen their transdisciplinary work.
Science Festival 2024
July 7, 2024
TRA Sustainable Futures took part in this year's Science Festival at the University of Bonn. At the event, the university's Transdisciplinary Research Areas were in the spotlight and presented their work with a science rally for all ages. Interested members of the public were able to experience the benefits and results of transdisciplinary research first hand. Together with the COPLANT study and the Klein-Altendorf sustainability campus, TRA Sustainable Futures gave visitors an insight into what it means to conduct research for a sustainable future.
TRAnsDigital: Digitization of research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
April 26, 2024
The workshop adressed the question what potentials and challenges are associated with the digitalization of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (including Economics).
In addition to the exchange of knowledge and best-practice experiences in workshop sessions on various cross-disciplinary fields of application, the workshop offered the opportunity to make interesting contacts across disciplines and TRAs.
"The Role of Nutrition in Planetary Health"
March 19, 2024
Food systems play an important role in achieving healthy environments, human health, and the health of all living creatures on our planet. This scientific symposium will launch the research concept of the Hertz-Chair “Innovation for Planetary Health” and will provide a platform for interdisciplinary discourse to strive technology and innovation for sustainable futures at the University of Bonn and beyond.
Science Festival 2023
July 9, 2023
The TRA Sustainable Futures was represented at this year’s University of Bonn Science Festival. The event focused on the Transdisciplinary Research Areas, which presented their work in an engaging way through a science rally for visitors of all ages. This gave the interested public the opportunity to experience first-hand the benefits and outcomes of transdisciplinary research. Together with the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob and the Innovation Space NewFoodSystems, TRA Sustainable Futures demonstrated to visitors what it means to conduct research for a sustainable future.
Science Night 2022
May 12/13, 2022
On May 12 and 13, 2022, the Bonn Science Night took place in Bonn’s city center. Under the motto „sustainable research“ (“nach(haltig)geforscht“) numerous exhibitors from the University of Bonn as well as from research institutions and scientific facilities in the region presented current research projects on the topic of sustainability.
