Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU)

What is ZEU about?: Since 1998, the Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) has dedicated itself to transdisciplinary research on climate change, resource management, nutrition security, water scarcity and energy transition, through international cooperation, including transition and developing countries.

In this capacity, ZEU is an ideal platform for joint international projects. Since its foundation, ZEU has successfully implemented more than 80 interdisciplinary projects, including capacity-building-projects within DAAD. Currently ZEU leads the SDGnexus Network, a global community of universities, research centres, and stakeholders committed to promoting the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, in the framework of the Higher Education Excellence in Development Programme (EXCEED) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). ZEU recruits its academic members from the faculty of JLU’s departments of law, economics and business studies, social sciences, physics, geography, agricultural sciences, nutritional sciences, biology, as well as environmental management.

Contact: Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU)
Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung (ZEU)
Senckenbergstrasse 3
D-35390 Giessen
Phone: +49 641 99 12700
Fax: +49 641 99 127-09/-19
office@zeu.uni-giessen.de

News: 18/09/2023 | WMO report "United in Science 2023" recently published; 15/09/2023 | Dr. Aliya Assubayeva was awarded the JLU Early Career Researcher Grant for Water Security Study in South America; 09/08/2023 | ZEU member Prof. Jürg Luterbacher has been appointed to the new UN Scientific Advisory Board in his capacity as Director of the WMO Department of Science and Innovation.; 06/08/2023 | In terms of ocean surface temperatures, July 2023 will go down as the hottest month in history; 01/08/2023 | Dr. Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi is the new postdoc researcher in the follow-up project NUKLEUS2; Mehr ...

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Optimism versus realism Climate models point to irreversible climate change. Why are we doing so little about it?

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BIOVALUE » Fork-to-Farm agent-based Simulation Tool augmenting BIOdiversity in the Agri-Food VALUE Chain

CLINT » CLImate INTelligence: Extreme Events Detection, Attribution and Adaption Design using Machine Learning

CROP » Impacts of Compound Weather Extremes in Crops in Germany: Present and Future

DAKI-FWS » Data- and AI- supported early warning system to stabilise the German economy

FURA » Determinants of Food Insecurity in Urban and Rural Afghanistan

GAGTR » Global Agricultural Governance and Transnational Relations

HydroCrowd» Citizen Science in Hydrology

IVAC » Virtual academic collaboration between Justus Liebig University Gießen and the University of Sydney

NUKLEUS » Useful local Climate Information for Germany

SDG^nexus Network » Global Community of Universities, Research Centers and Stakeholders commited to promoting the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development

TRANS-LIVESTOCK » Economic integration of livestock husbandry in the trans-border region of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Water Resources, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling, Erosion and Land Management » Different Projects in Eastern Africa, spanning Environmental Issues such as Water Resources, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling, Erosion and Land Management

: The SDGnexus Network is a global community of universities, research centers, and stakeholders committed to promoting the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. The SDGnexus Network is a part of the DAAD “Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation – exceed” program and, as such, it aims to strengthen higher education for enabling effective and innovative contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.
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