Internal events
COPAN jour fixe: each Monday, 1 pm, West Wing, Michelson building (A31), Telegraph hill, Potsdam
External events
2020
InTENSE: 728. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Interacting Tipping Elements in the Natural and Social Components of the Earth System
16 – 19 August 2020, Bad Honnef. Application deadline: 12 June 2020. Details
2019
CRISES workshop 
5 – 6 August 2019, Braunschweig, Germany
COPAN co-organized a workshop on Environmental Crises as Economic, Political and Social Crises at the Georg Eckert Institute. Kindly funded by the Leibniz Research Alliance on "Crises in a globalised World".
Organizers: Tobias Ide, Jonathan F. Donges, Christiane Fröhlich, Kati Krähnert
DominoES Workshop II: 
Social tipping dynamics in the Earth system
17 – 19 June 2019, Cologne, Germany
COPAN, together with GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Science, has organized a workshop on Social Tipping Elements relevant to stay within Planetary Boundaries in the scope of the DominoES project. Funded by the Leibniz Research Alliance on "Crises in a globalised World".
Organizers: E. Keith Smith, Christina Eder, Alexia Katsanidou, Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig, Ricarda Winkelmann
EGU 2019 Session
7 – 12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria
COPAN co-organized a session on Climate tipping points, critical thresholds and ecosystem resilience (CL4.16) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019.
Session conveners: Ricarda Winkelmann, Victor Brovkin, Henk A. Dijkstra, Jonathan F. Donges, Timothy Lenton
LOOPS-4 2019 Workshop 
10 – 13 March 2019, Bad Belzig, Germany
Topic: Earth resilience in the Anthropocene: Integrating nonlinear biophysical and social determinants of Earth system stability for global sustainability
This activity has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Spring and fall schools for gifted university students: "The Earth as a complex system"
September 2017 – March 2019, with German National Academic Foundation
COPAN's Jonathan Donges and Jobst Heitzig together with Jürgen Kurths organize and teach a working group on "The Earth as a complex system" at the Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Kolleg hosted by the German National Academic Foundation. Several student research projects deal with COPAN-related topics. Four week-long spring and fall schools: Sept 2017, Cologne; March 2018, Weimar; Sept 2018, Heidelberg; March 2019 Springe.
2018
WE Heraeus group retreat 
18 - 22 June 2018, Hanauer Hütte, Tirol, Austria
COPAN worked on advancing the Physics of Social-Ecological Resilience during a group retreat (WE Heraeus Klausurtagung), kindly funded by the WE Heraeus Foundation.
Organizers: Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig
DominoES Workshop I:
Social tipping dynamics in the Earth system
4 – 6 June 2018, Cologne, Germany
COPAN, together with GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Science, has organized a workshop on Social Tipping Elements Decisive for the Future of the Anthropocene in the scope of the DominoES project.
Organizers: Christina Eder, Alexia Katsanidou, Jonathan F. Donges, Jobst Heitzig, Ricarda Winkelmann
Challenges at hackhpi2018 hackathon 
26 – 27 May 2018, Potsdam, Germany
COPAN has contributed challenges on finding design elements of sustainable and resilient World-Earth governance in the Anthropocene using machine learning approaches to the hackhpi 2018 hackathon at the Hasso Plattner Institute School of Design Thinking. (see here for a resulting paper)
Organizers: Jobst Heitzig, Jonathan F. Donges
2nd CLISEC-PIK Workshop
23 May 2018, Potsdam, Germany
COPAN has co-organized a workshop on Qualitative and quantitative methods for advancing research on the climate-migration-conflict nexus together with the CLISEC group at the University of Hamburg.
Organizers: Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Scheffran
Focus session at DPG spring meeting 2018 
11 – 16 March 2018, Berlin, Germany
COPAN co-organized a focus session on Physics of Contagion Processes - From Infection Dynamics on Complex Networks to Complex Social Contagion in the section of socio-economic physics at the 2018 spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG).
Organizers: Philipp Hövel, Pawel Romanczuk, and Jonathan F. Donges
2017
Session on "Earth resilience" at RESILIENCE 2017 Conference
21 – 23 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
Topic: Earth resilience at Resilience 2017 Conference
Earth resilience can be viewed as the capacity of the Earth system to sustain a good life for everybody on the planet. Earth resilience depends on Earth system dynamics on a planetary scale, especially feedbacks between the biosphere and the physical environment as well as the complex adaptive dynamics of social systems that are entwined with the planetary ecosystem. Developing better ways of combining and applying knowledge about these social-ecological dynamics of the Earth system is fundamental to identifying the opportunities, constraints and risks of today’s globalized change in the Anthropocene. We aim to generate a transdisciplinary understanding of Earth resilience including its persistence, adaptation and transformation aspects, bringing together emerging social, ethical/philosophical and environmental perspectives.
LOOPS-3 2017 Workshop
25 – 26 January 2017, Potsdam, Germany
Topic: Transformative change and social-ecological resilience in the World-Earth system: modeling, concepts and data
(back to back with the Earth League Symposium “Transformation now!”, January 23 – 24, 2017)
2016
Expert workshop: Social tipping elements for decarbonization
19 December 2016, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Expert workshop co-organized by COPAN as an activity of the Earth League's Earth Doc program.
CCS 2016 Satellite: Network techniques to look at transition phenomena
21 September 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Topical workshop co-organized by COPAN embedded in the Complex Systems Society Conference 2016
EGU 2016 Session
17 – 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria
COPAN is co-organizing a session on SOS! Charting a safe operating space for humanity (ERE1.7) in Programme Group ERE, "Energy, Resources and the Environment" at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016.
Session conveners: Jonathan Donges, Sarah Cornell, James Dyke
Earth’s Safe Operating Space for Humanity: From concept to action 
18 – 20 January 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
COPAN is involved in an Open Symposium and Roundtable Discussion on Earth’s Safe Operating Space for Humanity: From concept to action at the Stockholm Natural History Museum and Artipelag.
2015
EGU 2015 Session
12 – 17 April 2015, Vienna, Austria
COPAN is co-organizing a session on Social-ecological interactions in the Earth System: land, water and ecosystem use, planetary boundaries and sustainability transitions (ERE2.1/HS1.3) in Programme Group ERE, "Energy, Resources and the Environment" at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015.
Session conveners: Dominik E. Reusser, Sarah Cornell, Alice Bows-Larkin, James Dyke, Jonathan Donges, Christopher Reyer
LOOPS 2015 Workshop
Topic: From Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries: Defining the safe and just space for humanity
23 – 25 March 2015, New Forest, Southhampton, United Kingdom
COPAN is co-organizing the LOOPS 2015 workshop together with James Dyke, University of Southhampton, UK.
Planetary boundaries mark precautionary limits for the human perturbation of critical environmental processes. Applying the planetary boundaries concept demands much deeper conceptual, analytic and practical integration of societal and environmental dynamics. A notable attempt as such an integration was the World3 model of Meadow’s et al, the results of which were published in the controversial monograph Limits to Growth. This workshop will focus on operational aspects of co-evolutionary modelling: applying models in/for the real world, addressing contemporary human drivers of coevolutionary change, and the characterisation and quantification of planetary boundaries and their interactions.
Spring and fall schools for gifted university students: "Complex systems perspectives on anthropogenic climate change"
September 2013 – March 2015, with German National Academic Foundation
COPAN's Jonathan Donges and Jürgen Kurths organize and teach a working group on "Complex systems perspectives on anthropogenic climate change" at the Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Kolleg hosted by the German National Academic Foundation. Several student research projects deal with COPAN-related topics. Four week-long spring and fall schools: Sept 2013, Rastatt; March 2014, Cologne; Sept 2014, Berlin-Wannsee; March 2015 Düsseldorf.
2014
HEEECC 2014 Seminar
6–9 December 2014, Bad Honnef, Germany
COPAN co-organized the WE-Heraeus Seminar on Health, Energy & Extreme Events in a Changing Climate.
Anthropocene Campus
14–22 November 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
COPAN's Wolfgang Lucht will contribute to this exemplary model course on the anthropocene. "The curriculum will be tested in the form of an exemplary model course at HKW from Nov 14 - 22, 2014, open to a group of 100 postgraduates who will be selected via an international call for applications. This temporary ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS will be accompanied by a program of talks and discussions in which the participating lecturers will provide insights into the development of the curriculum. Seminar materials, video and audio recordings of lectures and classes, as well as a coursebook will be made accessible online." (more here).
EGU 2014 Session
27 April – 2 May 2014, Vienna, Austria
COPAN co-organized a session on Planetary boundaries, societal interactions, and sustainability transitions within the Earth system (ERE1.10/CL5.1) in Programme Group CL5, "Past-Present-Future Climates" at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014.
Session conveners: Dominik E. Reusser, Diego Rybski, Juergen Kropp, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Prof Fischer-Kowalski, António Ferreira, Axel Kleidon, Wolfgang Lucht, Timothy Lenton, Jonathan Donges, Jobst Heitzig
Orals / Wed, 30 Apr, 08:30–10:00 / Room R14
Posters / Attendance Wed, 30 Apr, 17:30–19:00 / Red Posters
LOOPS 2014 Workshop
16–18 February 2014, Chorin Monastery, Berlin, Germany.
COPAN organized the workshop Closing the loop – Towards co-evolutionary modeling of global society-environment interactions.
Anthropocene Curriculum
September 2013 – December 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
COPAN's Wolfgang Lucht is involved in this model project on knowledge production on the anthropocene. "The ANTHROPOCENE CURRICULUM is an ongoing negotiation across disciplinary lines, taking place as a multistage, online-based process of active knowledge production." (more here).
