Unsure about your future path in academia?

JENAINNOVATION invites you to an event focused on academia, the impact of research, and your own path within it.

Through a series of presentations, JENAINNOVATION offers participants the opportunity to reflect on their own paths both within and outside of academia and to discuss how research can extend beyond publications and find its way into practical application.

In various presentations, JENAINNOVATION will introduce its offerings and highlight different ways to further develop ideas—whether through
collaborations, validation projects, targeted funding and support instruments, or by founding your own company. At the same time, the event provides a space for exchange with other researchers, experts in knowledge transfer, and the JENAINNOVATION team.

JENAINNOVATION is a joint initiative of Friedrich Schiller University, the University Hospital, and Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is to support teams and organizations in transforming research findings and scientific ideas into practical applications. To this end, innovation processes are supported from the initial idea through to practical application, and collaboration between academia, industry, and partners from across society is fostered.

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WHEN: July 9, 5:00–7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Abbe Center of Photonics, Auditorium (at Beutenberg Campus: Albert-Einstein-Straße 6, 07745 Jena)

Geoanthropology of the Biosphere: Integrated, Long-Term, and Global Approaches to Human-Biosphere Interactions

The Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology addresses the critical challenges of the 21st century by bringing together insights from various disciplines to study climate change, the biodiversity crisis, the overexploitation of natural resources, and the sustainable survival of human communities. Using laboratory, field, modeling, and interpretive approaches, the Institute investigates the fundamental dynamics of the human-Earth system that have given rise to the multifaceted crises of the “Anthropocene.”

The symposium brings together experts who, in various ways, examine the relationship between the sociotechnosphere and the biosphere at the local, regional, and global levels, as well as across different timescales. The presentations will focus on new approaches to researching, understanding, and modeling our species’ long-term interaction with this crucial component of the Earth system. The speakers come from various disciplines and will shed light on different aspects of the human-biosphere system.

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WHEN: June 22, 11 a.m. – June 23, 5 p.m.

WHERE: Volkshaus Jena (Carl-Zeiss-Platz 15, 07743 Jena)