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This year, the ECPR General Conference took place from September 8th to 11th, 2026 in Kraków and brought together more than 2.000 political scientists from all around the world. The IPS was very engaged and contributed to several sections in different research fields of Comparative Politics, Sustainability Studies and Knowledge Research.

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Die Public Climate School (PCS) bringt vom 9. bis 15. November 2026 Klimabildung in Schulen, Universitäten und Gesellschaft. Viele Institutionen präsentieren eine Woche lang ein vielfältiges Programm rund um Klimagerechtigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratiebildung. In diesem Jahr sind auch die JMU und das IPS wieder dabei.

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Im Rahmen der CHARM-EU Annual Conference an der Åbo Akademi University in Turku/Finnland organisierte Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach (JMU) gemeinsam mit Nelli Piehl (AAU, Finnland), Martin Meggele Sjøen (UiB, Norwegen), Nina Shiel (TCD, Irland) und Àdám Tóth (UU, Ungarn) einen Workshop zum Thema “CHARM-EU Values in the Classroom: Practical Methods”.

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On September 19th, 2026, Dr. Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach gave an online lecture on “Public Policy and the Far Right” as part of the Graduate course on “The Far Right in the 21st Century: Electoral and Party Impacts and Political Agendas” at the Brazilian universities UFRGS (Rio de Janeiro) and IESP-UERJ (Porto Alegre).

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Sabine Kehr und Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach haben im Rahmen des Themenschwerpunkts „Demokratie unter Druck“ einen Beitrag zum Thema „Herausforderungen und Konsequenzen in demokratischen Krisenzeiten“ in der DVPB-Zeitschrift „Forum Politikunterricht“ veröffentlicht.

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From July 6-8, 2026, MARKOPOLO members Ulrike Zeigermann and Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach (both JMU Würzburg) participated at the 5th International Workshop on Public Policy (IWPP) of the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) in Ottawa.

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What role do Small Island States play in current international debates on climate, the environment, and ecocide? Jun.-Prof. Ulrike Zeigermann and Dr. Philipp Gieg explore this question in their article "Judicialization as contestation: Ecocide, the small island states, and the international politics of environmental justice", which has just been published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

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