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

Thursday 23 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.

1 Welcome and Introduction

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

Speakers: Dr Louis Celliers (Hereon/GERICS), Marie Heidenreich (SynCom/Helmholtz Erde & Umwelt)

2 Scientific input talks

10:45 Coffee Break

3 Input talks from external consultancy/industry/finance/ministry

12:00 Lunch Break and Networking

4 Definition of impact planning and concept for societal impact planning in PoF V as discussion basis

Speaker: Dr Louis Celliers (Hereon/GERICS)

5 Joint discussions on societal impact planning

6 Wrap-up and Next steps

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