📖 New Reader out now! Together for a Caring Economy and Society 🌱
With contributions from Christina Plank & Lisa Lorenz (IDR)!
✨ Visions, strategies & steps toward a just future.
📚 Read (in German) for free: fairsorgen.at
#FairSorgen #CareEconomy #IDR

🌾 Where does our food come from? Who grows it—and how?
At #KinderUni, we explored these questions with students in a workshop on food systems, farming, and rural life—co-led with @oebv_via_campesina & @BNK.
👩‍🌾 Stories of work, heritage & change.

#SwiftProject
📸 BStadlmayr / CVoigt

📢 FUTURES – Transforming climate social futures receives €1.22M from FWF’s #ConnectingMinds program. Led by BOKU, the project centers youth voices in climate justice & co-creates urban futures in Salzburg.

👉 www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/deta...

#BOKUresearch #FWFfunded #ParticipatoryResearch

In may experts met at BOKU to discuss gender equality in agriculture. The dialogue focused on the 2028 CAP reform and how to make farming more inclusive & viable - especially for women, youth & gender-diverse people. Find the final report here: swiftproject.eu/files/2025/0...

✨The #SwiftProject has just published its 5️⃣ recommendations for a gender-transformative #CAP. Right in time for the @ec.europa.eu's 2028 discussions.
Highlights:

✖️ NO "add women and stir" approach
✔️ YES prioritising gender, creating equal playing fields, rejecting gender norms

LINK t.ly/mmXzX

✨And here are the steps 4 and 5: Farm workers and seasonal migrants are the backbone of our food system. Yet many face exploitation, low wages, and unsafe working conditions.
This needs to be addressed in the #CAP.
✊#SWIFTProject

LINK t.ly/mmXzX

In light of the climate crisis and growing social inequality, the exhibition "climate-social city" presents 15 artistic perspectives on a climate-just society. From April 3 to 30, 2025, the artworks will be displayed at public locations throughout the city center of Linz; www.klimasoziale.at

What will a climate-social city of the future look like? The exhibition "Climate-Social City" presents 15 artistic visions of a climate-just society. From April 3 to 30, 2025, the works will be displayed at public locations and shop windows throughout Linz's city center. klimasozial.at

🌐 Food System Transformation Workshop! 🌾

📅 Jan 29–30, 2025
⏰ 09:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online (Zoom)
✉️ Register: andreas.bauer@boku.ac.at

Let’s talk #FoodSystemTransformation:
🌟 Emerging trends in theory & practice
🌟 Entry points for change
🌟 Struggles & paths forward

🌎Humanity is facing an interlocking complex of social, ecological, and economic crises. Do we need a completely new economic paradigm to inform systemic transformation? This topic is being discussed by experts at a conference on 15th January.

👉wu.at/matters-nature

A meta-documentary about double standards in times of climate crisis, the privileges of car traffic in the city and the possibilities of fighting against it. With: Mira Kapfinger (Stay Grounded), Patrick Scherhaufer (BOKU), Christoph Schwarz (Filmmaker); Moderation: Christina Plank (IDR BOKU)

We had a great IDR team meeting. Unfortunately not everyone could be there. Lots of ❤️ to everyone out there.

💧Call for Applications - Limnology and Wetland Management (LWM)💧
The next "International Joint Master's Degree Programme in Limnology & Wetland Management (LWM)" starts in October 2025! You can apply for LWM via:
👉https://ipgl.boku.ac.at

🎞️Impressions on LWM: www.youtube.com/channel/UCCA...

🦋 BOKU Institute of Development Research is now on Bluesky!
We’re excited to share fascinating insights, updates, and everything about BOKU IDR with you here. Follow us and stay informed ➡️ bokuviennaidr.bsky.social