Day 1: Thursday, August 28, 2025
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Available
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Words of Welcome & Opening Addresses
- Heinz Fassman, President, OEAW
- Hon. Michael Ludwig, Mayor, Vienna
- Joachim von Braun, President, PAS
- Wim van Saarloos, President, European Academies Science Advisory Council
- His Eminence, Cardinal Peter Turkson, Chancellor, PAS & PASS
- Hon. Norbert Totschnig, Federal Minister, Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management, Austria (video)
- Jürgen Schneider, Head, Climate Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate- and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management
9:35 – 10:35 a.m.
Challenges and Best Practices for Resilience – Mayors and Local Leaders
Moderator: Jachim von Braun, President, PAS
- Hon. Ricardo Rio, Mayor, Braga, Portugal, Global Parliament of Mayors Exec. Committee Chair
- Hon. Henriette Reker, Mayor, Cologne
- Hon. Nina Abrahamczik, Member, Vienna City Council
- Ada Ámon, Executive Director, Budapest Climate Agency
- Alastair Hannaford, WHO Youth Council Co-Chair, World Organization of the Scout Movement representative
10:40 – 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:05 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Innovations and Entrepreneurship – New Ways of Addressing Climate Adaptation of Cities and Subregions
Moderator: Elena Lopez-Gunn, Founder and Director, ICATALIST & Senior Research Fellow, Royal Elcano Institute
Panelists:
- Gesa Ziemer, Professor, Digital Urban Cultures, HafenCity University
- Brigitte Mohn, Member, Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
- Bianca Carvalho, WHO Youth Council, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines representative
- Frederik Galtung, Co-Chief Facilitator, Catalyst Now
- Alvaro Soldevila, Lead, Programs & Resilience Practice, Resilient Cities Network
12:10 – 12:40 p.m.
Mitigation, Adaption, Societal Transformation (MAST) - Resilience Concepts, Challenges, and Actions
Moderator: Sr. Helen Alford, President, PASS
- Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Council, PASS
- Cornelia Richter, Bishop designate, Evangelical Church of Austria & Chair, Systematic Theology and Hermeneutic, Universität Bonn
- Markus Gerhartinger, Environmental Officer, Archdiocese of Vienna
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:50 – 3:00 p.m.
Innovative Financing Resilience & Insurance
Moderator: Bianca Pitt, Co-Founder, SHE Changes Climate
Participants:
- Hon. Anne Hidalgo, Mayor, Paris
- Hon. Matteo Lepore, Mayor, Bologna
- Christof Reinert, Head of Risk Management Partners, on Future of Modeling Climate Risk, Munich Re Insurance
- Urtė Petrulytė, WHO Youth Council, World Organization of the Scout Movement representative
- Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO & Founder, We Don’t Have Time
- Christin Braak-Forstinger, Founder & CEO, Chi Impact Capital
3:05 – 4:15 p.m.
Weather Disasters, Recovery and Prevention
Moderator: Frank McGovern, Vice Chair, JPI Climate
Panelists:
- Elina Bardram, Director for Climate Resilience and Information Management, European Commission, DG CLIMA
- Hon. Cornelia Weigand, County Commissioner, Ahrweiler District
- Hon. Paula Llobet Vilarrasa, Councilor for Innovation, Technology, Digital Agenda and Investment Capture, Valencia
- Elena Xoplaki, Acting Head, Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Group at the Institute of Geography, Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- Ronit Batra, Climate Cardinals
4:20 – 5:20 p.m.
Interactive "European / Vienna Café Consultation on MAST Solutions" led by Youth (incl. Coffee Break) (MAST – Mitigation, Adaptation, Societal Transformation)
- All participants assemble in 12 Conversation groups in round tables
- Each table has a Youth chair and a rapporteur from the Youth group and one scientist
- Each table has a set of thematic challenges related to the MAST agenda to address and to identify solutions,
- Participants may move between tables
- The discussions are moderated by the chair from Youth participants
- The Youth rapporteurs report back in the following session, each presenting up to 3 calls to action for solutions to the identified challenges
Youth Facilitators:
- Corinna Fortunato, WHO Youth Council, European Network of Medical Residents in Public Health representative
- Natalia Pidmurniak, Youth Council, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Head of the International Medical Youth Diplomacy Department
- Lieke Vivianne Schipper, International Federation of Medical Students Association
- Kadrie Adem, MD, InciSioN Global Representative
- Olha Dybkaliuk, World Scouting
- Habib Olatunji Alagbo, WHO Youth Council representative, Health Education and Literacy Working Group
- Evangelia Savvidou, WHO/Europe EVID-ACTION Youth Alcohol Network, Youth Advisor
- Pauline Hastenteufel, Youth Health Organization
- Daniel Cieślak, Youth Climate Council Poland
- Mehmet Yağız Güzel, Vice President of Capacity, European Medical Students' Association
- Balkiss Abdelmoula, MD, MPH, WHO Youth Council Representative, World Medical Association Junior Doctors’ Network Deputy Chair
- Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Chair of Planetary Health Working Group, International Youth Health Organization representative
5:20 – 6:30 p.m.
Reporting Back of Calls to Action by Youth Leaders to Plenary
Chair: Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Chair of Planetary Health Working Group, International Youth Health Organization representative
7:00 p.m.
Conference Dinner
Location: Jesuit Hall
Day 2: Friday, August 29, 2025
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Available
8:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Climate Change and Health Including Extreme Heat
Moderator: Andy Haines, Professor, Environmental Change & Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Panelists:
- Muha Hassan, WHO Youth Council, WMA-Junior Doctors Network representative
- Beth Stinchcombe, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations representative, WHO
- Lamia Messari-Becker, Professor, Energy-efficient Building Technology, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer, United Nations Human Settlements Programme
- Sascha Müller-Kraenner, CEO, Deutsche Umwelthilfe
9:50 – 10:50 a.m.
The Change of European Mountain Areas – Glaciers, Water, Rocks and Landscapes
Moderator: Jakob Rhyner, Professor Emeritus, Global Change and Systemic Risks, University of Bonn & Chair, Science Advisory Committee, OEAW Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research
Panelists:
- Show of short part of new film “Requiem in Weiss” by Harry Putz
- Thomas Stocker, Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern
- Keywan Riahi, Director of the Program on Energy, Climate, and Environment at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria)
- Harry Putz, Filmmaker
- Sofia Bergqvist, Youth Health Organization, Human Geographer
10:55 – 11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Coastal Resilience (North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean)
Moderator: Costas Papanicolas, President Emeritus, Cyprus Institute
Panelists:
- Hon. George Hatzimarkos, Governor, South Aegean Region and President, Association of Greek Regions
- Nadia Pinardi, Professor. Physical Oceanography, University of Bologna and Director, Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience
- Antonio Navarra, President, The CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change)
- Jacek Piskozub, Vice Chair, Committee for the Climate Crisis, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Melinda Martins, WHO Youth Council, Youth Environment
12:25 – 1:25 p.m.
Land Use, Water, Agriculture, Food System, Bioeconomy
Moderator: Cecilia Tortajada, PAS & University Glasgow and Singapore, Environmental Science and Sustainability, Water
Panelists:
- Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Jaime Flores Cabeza, Deputy Director, Canal de Isabel II
- Vera Eory, Climate Change Researcher, Edinburgh Campus
- Julia Weatherhogg, Programme Management Officer, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
- Hinda Sahir, WHO Youth Council, Act4Food representative
- Louise E.M. Vet, Netherlands Institute of Ecology & Emeritus Professor, Evolutionary Ecology, Wageningen University
1:25 – 2:20 p.m.
Lunch
2:25 – 3:35 p.m.
Foresight and Scientific and Policy Innovations
Moderator: Wim van Saarloos, President of EASAC, Professor emeritus of theoretical physics, University of Leiden
Panelists:
- Örjan Gustafsson, PAS and University of Stockholm
- Inge Jonckheere, Head, Green Solutions Division, European Space Agency
- Dino Žujić, MD, Director, Standing Committee on Public Health, International Federation of Medical Students Association
- Eleni Zika, Head of Sector, European Research Council
- Frank Ewert, Scientific Director, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research & Professor, Crop Production, University of Bonn
- Pascale Braconnot, Climate Scientist, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace
3:40 – 4:50 p.m.
Societal Transformation - Building Resilience with All Stakeholders in Multi-level Governance
Moderator: Katja Čič, WHO Youth Council, Youth Representative Manager, International Youth Health Organization, Slovenia
Panelists:
- Hon. Henriette Reker, Mayor, Cologne
- Hon. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Former Prime Minister, Iceland
- Hon. Serhii Morhunov, Mayor, Vinnytsia
- John Schellnhuber, Director General, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Nadia Pinardi, Professor. Physical Oceanography, University of Bologna and Director, Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience
4:55 – 5:25 p.m.
Way Forward with Call to Action, Statements from Youth and Closing Remarks
- Joachim von Braun, President, PAS
- Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Council, PASS
5:25 – 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments