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Governing in the nexus Over the last 4 years, the MAGIC team has engaged with policy-makers in the European Commission, European Parliament, national and local governments, establishing a dialogue about the challenges that the nexus poses to governance. Some recurrent questions are: How can we make sure that improvements in one area (say, support...

A team of MAGIC researchers presented the project in a special session entitled "Governing the water-energy-food-nexus: Governance in complexity" at the International Seminar on Environment and Society—Current Challenges and Pathways to Change, which was held from 2-3 March 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. In this panel, organized and chaired by...

MAGIC, in the person of Raimon Ripoll Bosch (Wageningen University), actively participated in the Inaugural World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, from 23 – 28 February 2020.  The inaugural forum was organised by bioDISCOVERY, a Global Research Project (GRP) of FutureEarth, fostering collaborative interdisciplinary activities on...

The seventh edition of the Energy Congress of Catalonia (COENERCAT 2020)–'Energia i Emergència Climàtica' was held on 14 and 15 February 2020 at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona, and focused on climate emergency and the factors that influence CO2 emissions, as well as on how these issues affect the design of the energy model of...

MAGIC coordinator Mario Giampietro gave a striking 'ExPhil' talk at the 2020 SDG Conference in Bergen under the provocative title "Sustainable Development Goals and Technical Innovations: Can we escape the fate of cyborg salmons?"  The keynote was part of the session "Technology, Innovation and Industrial Transformation: torchlight for...

A systems perspective on sustainable agriculture – the new ‘MAGIC’ approach | European Parliament | Brussels | 30 January 2020  Sheila Ritchie, MEP of the Renew Europe Group and member of the AGRI Committee hosted a ‘MAGIC’ breakfast at the European Parliament in Brussels. The meeting explored how MAGIC can bring a new approach to...

More than 200 scientists and policy makers gathered at the EU Conference on Modelling for Policy Support in Brussels this past Tuesday and Wednesday (26-27 November) to identify common challenges and solutions in the use of models to support policy making. The event, organized by the Competence Centre on Modelling of the Joint Research Centre...

Maddalena Ripa (UAB) was invited to present MAGIC results at several important events in China during the month of November 2019. On Thursday 14 November 2019, she presented selected results at the 8th International Workshop on Advances in Cleaner Production in Sanya under the title: 'Exploring complexity and contradiction in outsourcing:...

It's finally out: MAGIC's brand new open access e-book: 'The Circular Economy in Europe—Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries' by authors Zora Kovacic, Roger Strand and Thomas Völker. The book presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013,...

On  Tuesday 12 November 2019, the EU DataViz 2019 conference brought to Luxembourg City some 350 visualization experts. The highly international cohort included a diverse group of professionals, administrators, and academics from both the public sector and the private sector. The Autonomous University of Barcelona's Ansel Renner reports: “It’s...