Workshop on Planning Societal Impact in the Earth and Environment Centers of the Helmholtz Association

Wednesday 29 Oct 2025, 09:45 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Hamburg, Chile House GERICS

This one-day workshop aims to critically assess and collaboratively advance the Helmholtz Center's approaches to measuring and planning societal impact derived from its scientific outputs. This perspective is developed through bottom-up input from scientists in Helmholtz Centers, in association with SynCom.

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome and Introduction

• Goal of the workshop
• Participant's focus on societal impact planning

Speaker: Dr Louis Cellier (Hereon/GERICS)

10:00 → 10:45 Scientific input talks

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:00 Input talks from external consultancy/industry/finance/ministry

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break and Networking

13:00 → 13:30 Definition of impact planning and concept for societal impact planning in PoF V as dicsussion basis

Speaker: Dr Louis Cellier (Hereon/GERICS)

13:30 → 15:30 Joint discussions on societal impact planning

15:30 → 16:00 Wrap-up and Next steps

• Goal: specific recommendations for societal impact planning in E&E in PoF V

Speaker: Dr Louis Cellier (Hereon/GERICS)