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Developing competences for Sustainable Futures: a competence model and design recommendations for learning environments

Reiber, Tatjana (2026)
Discussion Paper 9/2026

How can learning formats prepare future change-makers for sustainability transformations? Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience with the MGG Academy, this paper presents a practice-informed competence model and six recommendations for designing transformative learning environments.

Training for International Cooperation in Times of Geopolitical Transformation

Berlin, 12. Oktober 2026

About the workshop International cooperation is facing a new era of profound geopolitical and systemic transformation. After the end of the Cold War and periods of economic growth in various world regions, recent years have introduced far-reaching changes: a growing diversity of actors in international cooperation, significantly changed…

Chasing the trillions: what MDB lending can - and cannot - mobilise

Zattler, Jürgen K. / Kathrin Berensmann / Yabibal Walle (2026)
Discussion Paper 11/2026

Multilateral development banks face increasing pressure to leverage their limited resources as development budgets shrink. Our paper examines the mobilisation potential of their financing instruments—and why higher leverage does not necessarily mean greater development impact.

Health Economics and Development Cooperation Workshop 2026

Bonn, 15. Oktober 2026

The workshop brings together researchers, policy experts and practitioners working at the intersection of health economics, health financing and development cooperation. A particular focus is on current challenges and reform options in global health financing, including domestic resource mobilisation for health, health insurance,…

Beyond markets: how to achieve just and transformative biodiversity conservation

Hein, Jonas et al. (2026)
Policy Brief 25/2026

Conservation needs reform, as current approaches towards biodiversity conservation have not been able to halt biodiversity loss. This policy brief provides a number of suggestions on how to make biodiversity conservation more just, equitable and more effective.

Regulating and mobilising the private sector for democracy protection in the European Union’s trade policy

Sinanoglu, Semuhi / Niels Keijzer (2026)
Policy Brief 26/2026

Democracies face threats from both within and outside. In this brief, we explore a key area of the EU’s external action in terms of its potential to safeguard democracy, namely its trade policy.

Teilnehmer*innen des 62. Postgraduierten-Kurses 2026/2027

Der 62. Kurs des Postgraduierten-Programms (2026/27) am German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) begann am 1. September 2026.

Strengthening Leadership Programmes and their Networks in NRW

Aachen, 05. November 2026

As part of the Science Dialogue series, the in-person session on 5 November 2026 continues the exchange among leadership academies in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) as initiated in 2024. Building on previous discussions of diversity and inclusion strategies and the rationales and impact of leadership programmes, this third meeting deepens…