Beat the Heat Conference 2025
Zeit
Veranstaltungsort
Kreuzstrasse 2
4123 Allschwil
Karte auf Google Maps anzeigenThis year's "Beat the Heat" conference invites experts, researchers, and practitioners to address the challenges posed by urban heat and explore potential solutions. The aim is to provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing, foster networking and strengthening the exchange among the Swiss research, services, and implementation community on the interactions between cities, climate change, and human health. Situated within the field of urban climatology and related disciplines, the conference offers an opportunity to present findings from past and ongoing research projects as well as practical applications in planning and implementation.
Contributions
Contributions are invited on various aspects of urban heat, including measurement, modeling, heat mitigation and adaptation, as well as impacts on health, health systems and social well-being. Particularly encourage are interdisciplinary submissions and contributions from young researchers on one of these three topics:
- Mitigation, resilience and impacts
- Measurements and monitoring
- Modelling and simulations
Abstract submission and registration
Abstract submission deadline - 16 May 2025.
Registration deadline - 14 August 2025.
The conference is free however, registration is required.
Organizing committee
Martina Ragettli and Mirko Winkler, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Markus Kalberer and Stavros Stagakis, University of Basel
