Organisers: University of Greifswald and Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM)

Format: in-person (Greifswald, Germany) and online

FZO Round 2026 is an international, interdisciplinary workshop dedicated to advancing cutting-edge research on resilience at the intersection of environment, climate, security, and governance.

Across the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, resilience has become a lived reality shaped by geopolitical tensions, accelerating climate impacts, ecological degradation, and profound governance challenges. This workshop seeks to move beyond sectoral approaches by exploring resilience as a composite and co-produced process, built from multiple, interconnected “pieces” that only gain strength when viewed together.

Pieces of Resilience aims to create a high-level forum for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to:

• rethink how resilience is conceptualised, operationalised, and governed under conditions of crisis and uncertainty;

• compare regional experiences across Europe, the transatlantic space, and the Global South;

• co-create analytical and methodological frameworks that can travel across regions, disciplines, and policy domains.

The workshop is designed as an interactive, discussion-oriented event rather than a traditional conference. The first day of the workshop will be held in hybrid mode, enabling participation both in person and online.

This edition places particular emphasis on post-war recovery and resilience-building, with a strong focus on Ukraine and other conflict- and crisis-affected contexts, as well as transregional perspectives.