China Research Meets STEM

China Research Meets STEM
Invitation to a networking event

With this pilot event we wish to provide an exchange platform for STEM researchers and scholars researching Chinese society, politics or culture (China scholars) in the Berlin-Potsdam area. The goal is to let the two groups share knowledge, experiences and ideas.

If you as a STEM researcher have questions on Chinese society, politics or culture, or wish to add China-related social sciences aspects into your work (maybe a future proposal), this is the event for you. Likewise, if you are a China scholar and wish to learn more about science in contemporary China, could imagine to support a STEM team, or maybe even design research on scientific knowledge production, come and find your partners.

We welcome all interested China scholars and STEM researchers to join this first networking event and express their hopes, uncertainties and questions. 

Time: 15:00 – 17:00, 25 September 2025 (Thursday)
Venue: Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS), Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam
Event type: facilitated in-person event, where a brief plenary introduction will be followed by “table hopping” to allow for efficient, personal interaction
Language: English

Please, register with Agota Revesz revesz@gfz.de, who also welcomes your questions and comments.

This is the final event within the framework of the ASK („Awareness, Security and Knowledge in International Collaboration”) project of GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences. 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Agota Revesz, Projects and International Affairs, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Adina Deacu, Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow of RIFS at GFZ

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The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is Germany's national centre for Earth system research. It is one of 18 centres belonging to the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest research organization.

RIFS is legally and administratively part of GFZ and conducts research with the goal of understanding, advancing, and guiding processes of societal change towards sustainable development.

The Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China (CCST) at the TU Berlin offers interdisciplinary China-specific teaching and research and is also a China competence training center.