September

Knowledge Lab Doctoral and Post-doctoral Researchers

The second edition of the Knowledge Lab on Human Rights and Sustainability brought together participants and lecturers from around the globe to discuss a multitude of topics related sustainability and human rights as well as practical issues regarding the early career stage in academia. For an overview of speakers, please have a look here.

  June

New Gender Working Group

RISC-RISE is more than happy to announce the new working group on gender. The group aims to foster gender equality, from perspective interseccional, and promote inclusive growth across regions recognition of diversity. The primary objective is to integrate gender perspectives into regional policies and initiatives, ensuring that women and marginalised genders actively participate in social, economic, and political spheres. More details can be found here.

  April

RISC-RISE International Conference

Our 2023 (moved to 2024) conference was themed “SDGs and Social Justice: Measures to Support Inclusive Communities”. It was hosted by the University of Johannesburg and the University of Pretoria. 

  September

Doctoral and Post-doctoral School now Knowledge Lab

The 2023 Knowledge Lab for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers was themed Human Rights and Sustainability. To keep the spirit of inclusive participation, the knowledge lab took place virtually for two weeks. Special feature this year was an infographics workshop to practice sharing crucial information in a fun and informing way. Thank you all for participating!

  October

Best Article Prize

Congratulations to Sandy Medina-Valdivia and her colleagues for winning the Regions & Cohesion best article prize 2022!

The winning article can be found here!

  September

Doctoral and Post-doctoral School

Our annual doctoral and post-doctoral schoon on Comparative Sustainable Regional Integration took place virtually again. Through this virtual forum, we were able to bring together students and experts from all around the world, such as Australia, Colombia, Luxembourg, Mexico, South Africa and Vietnam.

A big thank you goes out to all speakers who shared their valuable knowledge during two weeks and to all students for their active participation in the school.

  November

RISC-RISE Best Article Prize

1^st place: Sandra Häbel, Normative policy coherence for development and policy networks: EU networks in Vietnam

2^nd Place: Sébastien  Dubé, A supposed fifth wave of Latin American regionalism and human needs

  November

2021 Rovert V.H. Dover Prize

2021 Robert VH Dover Prize awared to Harlan Koff et al. for their article on ‘Promoting participative policy coherence for sustainable development: Inclusive dialogue through “push-pull-match”