Scientific events

2nd to 6th February 2026

Important societal issues require to solve problems of increasing complexity. A key vector of progress relies on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches.
The objective of the winter school is to review the different approaches, numerical and experimental techniques to tackle the complexity of today’s engineering environmental and health-related problems. All the courses are illustrated through various up-to-date examples. Two days are devoted to practical laboratory work, combining (…)

December 2nd to 4th, 2025

The 5th conference on Stochastic Weather Generators, “SWGEN 2025 workshop”, will take place from December 2nd to 4th, 2025 at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) in Grenoble, France (2 rue de la Papeterie, Domaine Universitaire – 38100 Gières). There is no registration fee for the workshop ; participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
This international workshop will present the latest developments in stochastic weather data generators and a (…)

6-10th October 2025

The date for the 16th International Paleolimnology Symposium is the 6-10th October 2025 in Aix-les-Bains, France. The goal of the IAL-IPA joint meetings is to celebrate research on lakes from multiple perspectives with a focus on the sediment record as both Earth System Archives and social and cultural memories of Human societies.
This conference aims to bridge the gap across a broad range of disciplines that work within the overarching theme of Earth System and (…)

From 14 to 18 september 2025

The International Mountain Conference will take place from September 14 to 18 in Innsbruck, Austria. On this occasion, the living lab VIVALP team - a research program on Nature-based solutions led by Sandra Lavorel (LECA) and Isabelle Arpin (LESSEM) - has proposed a session: “NbS in protected areas: an opportunity to improve management pratices?”
International Mountain Conference will take place from September 14 – 18 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria. IMC builds upon the previous mountain (…)

23 & 24 june 2025

The conference “Residue and Oblivion: Manufacturing Toxic Legacies” will take place on June 23–24, 2025, in Grenoble, at the Pacte research laboratory. This event offers a cross-reflections based on the exemplary case of asbestos in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Asbestos has become a thing of the past. The subject of social struggles in the 1970s, expert battles in the following decade, then media scandals at the end of the 20th century (Henry, 2007), asbestos was for a long time (…)

June 23-27, 2025

The CBH Graduate School of UGA organizes interdisciplinary summer schools aimed at master’s and doctoral students of UGA. They are based on participatory methods with research, industrial and other socio-economic partners. This year, the school "reducing the carbon footprint of research" is co-organized with the DefiCO2 research consortium. These schools are a unique moment of exchange, sharing and creativity between students from all backgrounds. Why not taking this opportunity to redesign (…)

From January 19 to 31, 2025

Opening of the 32nd session of ERCA, the international school on atmosphere, on Monday January 20, 2025, 9 a.m., at the Maison Climat Planète, 70 rue de la Physique, St-Martin-d’Hères university campus. The European Research Course on the Atmosphere (ERCA) offers a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in cutting-edge research and collaborate with leading experts from across Europe. Scheduled for January 2025, this newly redesigned ERCA school aims to help attendees advance their (…)

Friday, june 28, 2024 - 1:30 p.m.

Friday, june 28, 2024 - 1:30 p.m. Alexandre Legay, Alice Copie, Antoine Bierjon, Antoine Ehret et Jean Lavigne - IGE, IPSL, INRAE
Les Sacoches du Climat’ (i.e. ’The Climate Panniers’) is a scientific outreach initiative led by a collective of 8 young climate researchers, complemented by esteemed French climatologists that were invited to join the collective by riding tandem with us. The initiative was designed to raise awareness of climate issues in rural areas, regions that are often (…)

Jeudi 30 Mai à 11h

Jeudi 30 Mai 2024 - 11h00 Sandra Lavorel, Directrice de recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d’écologie alpine (LECA)
Conservation, sustainable management and restoration of biodiverse ecosystems have the potential to support people’s adaptation to climate change. A wide range of such nature-based solutions for adaptation are being experimented and implemented around the world. Yet, one of the biggest challenges is their scaling-up for attaining simultaneous goals of climate mitigation and (…)

14 & 15 march 2024

The 27th AGM will be held in Grenoble on 14 and 15 March 2024. The meeting will take place in the campus of University Grenoble Alpes, in the MaCI building. The AGM is organized every year in one of the Alps main city (Zurich, Munich, Milan, Innsbruck, Grenoble). The goal of the meeting is to foster rich exchanges about glacier related research. Early career scientists are highly encouraged to participate, and the inscription at the conference is free of charge. practicals informations (…)