From 26 to 28 May 2022, the Austrian Lawyers' Commission (Österreichische Juristenkommission) will hold its spring conference on the topic of "Climate Change and Human Rights". With this conference, the Austrian Lawyers' Commission wants to take a look at traditional and proven legal protection mechanisms and examine how far these could be put in the service of climate protection.
On May 18, 2022, the Fundraising Verband Austria (FVA) invites you to the 8th Sciencefundraising Conference.
How can complex contents from science and research be communicated in such a way that people become enthusiastic about them? How can an institution network with different target groups such as alumni, business leaders or philanthropists? And how can you create long-term connections that ultimately result in a commitment to science, research and education?
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights is a regional partner for the Europe & Central Asia Regional Forum 2022, being held on 2-3 May 2022. The Regional Forum aims to formulate concrete recommendations for the improvement of the regional and global minority protection regimes. Regristration is open now and will remain open until April 25, 2022.
What are potential ways forward in order to enhance an understanding of cross-border disaster- and climate-related displacement into Europe? Which steps need to be taken towards more coherent legal and policy responses? The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) cordially invite you to join the panel discussion on April 21st 2022, 6 pm, online (via Zoom).
On April 21, 2022, Michael Lysander Femuth, Scientific Director of the LBI-GMR, will give a lecture on the international legal assessment of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
The online lecture will take place as part of the lecture series "Im Brennpunkt" of the private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
On Thursday, April 7, 2022, Margit Ammer, Senior Researcher at the LBI-GMR and expert on asylum and migration law, will speak at the Open Panel Discussion of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on the topic "Europe's and Austria's responses to the situation of refugees from Ukraine - the implementation of the EU Mass Refugee Directive".
On March 21, 2022, Katrin Wladasch, Senior Researcher at the LBI-GMR, will give a lecture on the topic "Legasthenie: Nachteilsausgleich bei Leistungsfeststellung und -bewertung". The lecture is part of the lecture series of the Austrian Dyslexia Association together with "Lernen mit Pfiff" and the BLT.