Cross-Border Understanding

摘要

The success of this event inspired the organizers in 2005 to attempt a second round, this time in Berlin, Dresden and Jena. This year "Science & Art in Europe" returned to Warsaw. The lion's share of the organization was undertaken by the Foundation for Polish Science, supported by two partners in Poland, the Polish Academy of Science and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and three in Germany, the European Academy of Otzenhausen, the MPS and the Volkswagen Foundation. The main focus was on ecology, energy and climate, with public lectures delivered by Max Planck scientists Peter Berthold and Gunther Hasinger along with Stefan Rahmsdorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Polish colleagues working in these specialist fields. A symposium entitled "Trade-offs as a response to energetic bottlenecks" prompted an exchange of ideas between scientists frominstitutions including the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Science and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries.