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On May 20 and 21, 2025, 14 researchers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany met in Warsaw (Poland) for the third project workshop on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe.

On April 25, 2025, our colleague Larissa Deppisch successfully completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen.

Representatives from four research projects met at the Thünen Institute for the workshop “Cooperation in a Nutshell” to exchange ideas on cooperative approaches in agri-environmental protection and to initiate future collaborations.

In their article for the online journal European Countryside, Petra Raue, Lynn-Livia Fynn and Kim Pollermann examine the role of women in rural development using the example of EU-funded LEADER regions.

Stefan Becker and Regina Grajewski presented the implementation cost analysis approach at a workshop of the EU CAP network.

A recent magazine article co-authored by Johannes Wegmann draws parallels between coal phase out and peatland rewetting.

Thünen study on the geography of discontent at the conference “Unfinished Statebuilding and Contested Democracies”

The Institute of Rural Studies is strongly represented at this year's 35th International Geographical Congress in Dublin (Ireland).