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An interactive overview of IIASA’s 2014 research is available in the Scientific Update at www.iiasa.ac.at\/SU14<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n We begin with profound thanks to Peter Lemke who retired in 2014 after five years as chair of IIASA\u2019s governing council. IIASA owes him a considerable debt of gratitude for his support for the Institute and its scientific mission, and we are delighted that he will continue to contribute to our mission and work as an IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellow.<\/p>\n We take this opportunity to thank our 22 member countries <\/a>through their \u00a0National Member Organizations (NMOs) for their support in 2014 and unstinting contribution to Institute life. The Mexican National Committee for IIASA became our 22nd NMO in 2014, and some of its first collaborative work is mentioned in this report. A more detailed insight into all IIASA\u2019s scientific work is also available online as part of our 2014 Scientific Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are pleased to report that, financially, IIASA is in a very healthy and solid state, having received close to \u20ac20 million from our NMOs and through additional contracts and grants in 2014. Between 2006 and 2014 IIASA researchers were awarded highly competitive grants that amounted to \u20ac69 million. This was part of a total funding portfolio of \u20ac329 million from external projects, in which IIASA was and is involved as a principal research partner, most of them in close collaboration with leading science and policy institutions in our NMO countries.<\/p>\n There were 323 research scholars, research assistants, postdoctoral research scholars, and young scientists from 45 countries working at IIASA over the year 2014, supported by an external faculty of 3,475 alumni worldwide, 25% of whom were actively involved in IIASA research. In 2014 IIASA scientists published 247 articles in leading international journals. Citations of IIASA articles have also continued to increase significantly.<\/p>\n We have crosscutting IIASA Future Initiatives underway or in planning that span the globe: the Arctic, the Tropics, and Water Futures. Three successful workshops were held in 2014 by our initiative on Eurasian economic integration. In currently difficult geopolitical times, it was attended by high\u2011ranking representatives from the science, diplomatic, and research communities across the European Union, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China and several other states in the Euro-Asian region.<\/p>\n IIASA\u2019s mission to provide–through excellent systems science–a bridge across geo-political divides is well recognized by world leaders. We are very pleased that IIASA collaboration and membership is growing. For example we are successfully pursuing additional opportunities for membership and collaborations in the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n We are also pleased that major international organizations, most notably the United Nations, are reaching out \u00a0to IIASA for scientific support to substantiate major worldwide discussions and policy agreements such as the COP21 United Nations Climate Conference and Sustainable Development Goals due to be adopted later in 2015.<\/p>\n The tradition of IIASA is interdisciplinary and integrated cross cutting research. As you will see within this report, from our 2014 Scientific Update, and in our bi-annual periodical Options<\/em> ,\u00a0 \u00a0it is becoming increasingly more obvious that a systems and \u201cout of the silo\u2019s\u201d thinking\u00a0 lead to both new scientific insights\u00a0 and discoveries, and it can\u00a0 provide substantial co-benefits to our economy and society.<\/p>\n We thank all of IIASA\u2019s scientists, support staff, and collaborators for their tireless work in 2014 for the support and benefit of IIASA.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0From the Chair and Director General An interactive overview of IIASA’s 2014 research is available in the Scientific Update at www.iiasa.ac.at\/SU14 We begin with profound thanks to Peter Lemke who retired in 2014 after five years as chair of IIASA\u2019s governing council. IIASA owes him a considerable debt of gratitude for his support for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" From the Chair and Director General<\/p> The year saw even closer cooperation across IIASA\u2019s research areas with National Member Organizations (NMOs) and among the Institute\u2019s growing network of collaborators. In 2013 IIASA welcomed new NMOs, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), as representatives of Australia and Vietnam, respectively. After completion of the Global Energy Assessment in 2012, IIASA launched two further flagship projects in 2013: one on the Tropics, initially involving our Brazilian and Indonesian NMOs, and the other on water, which will see development, with partners, of the first-ever global water scenarios. Following up on work with the Arctic Council, IIASA researchers and Finnish policymakers and scientists outlined a new research agenda addressing challenges facing the Arctic region. First steps were taken in establishing an open and in-depth analysis of dimensions of Eurasian economic integration covering Russia, its neighbors, and the European Union. Exciting new projects were adopted by the Advanced Systems Analysis Forum, for example, on decision-making under systemic risk.<\/p> In August IIASA and the European Forum Alpbach launched a global think tank \u2013 the Alpbach-Laxenburg Group, to address the issues of global transformation and to help create sustainable development paths. Some 2050 researchers from 65 countries were involved in IIASA\u2019s research network in 2013: 300 researchers in house, including research scholars, research assistants, postdoctoral research scholars, and young scientists from over 50 countries. IIASA has a network of 3475 alumni worldwide, 25% of whom remain involved in IIASA research. Active, formalized collaboration is conducted with over 300 institutions worldwide.
Financially, 2013 was a record year with over \u20ac9.5 million received from NMOs and over \u20ac8 million from contracts, grants, and donations. IIASA coordinated and partnered in many projects funded by the European Commission and other bodies, and is proud to have received five grants from the European Research Council. Between 2006 and 2013 total external funding to IIASA amounted to over \u20ac62.5million, enabling the establishment of productive new research lines.<\/p>
Scientists Institute-wide worked throughout 2013 to prepare for the release in early 2014 of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Three IIASA programs collaborated to produce the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways which will form part of the research framework for the climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability community in subsequent IPCC reports, and in wider research. IIASA modelers made major contributions to other policy efforts on human development and the environment, such as the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative and the EU Clean Air Policy Package.<\/p>
In 2013 IIASA scientists published 254 articles and IIASA research was cited in over 7300 journal articles\u2014more than in any previous year.
We thank our NMOs for their support in 2013; IIASA\u2019s Deputy Director General, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, for his unstinting personal and scientific contributions; our worldwide network of partnerships; and our scientists and support staff who have made IIASA the center of excellence that it is today.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9Ybw0-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ar14.iiasa.ac.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}