11th Franco-German workshop "Gateway to the Arctic" held on Germany's highest mountain
Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities co-organised the workshop "Gateway to the Arctic"
The 11th workshop of the Franco-German series "Gateway to the Arctic" was held at the research station "Schneefernerhaus", close to the summit of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, September 9 through 11. Funded by the Franco-German University in Saarbruck, it was co-organised by Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities and Director of the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, together with Dr Klaus Grosfeld, director of the REKLIM network and Dr Renate Treffeisen, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute (German Polar Institute) climate office. This year's workshop was dedicated to the theme of "Melting Glaciers in a Changing World". More than 20 international early stage researchers and master students from a number of French and German Higher Education institutions participated in the event featuring several guest lectures from Estonia, France, and Germany, providing both natural science and humanities perspectives on the subject.
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