Analysen zu Flucht richten oft den Blick auf erwerbsfähige Geflüchtete, z.B. Frauen mit Kindern. Weit weniger bekannt ist die Situation von (älteren) Ankommenden mit besonderen Gesundheitsbedarfen, etwa mit chronischen Erkrankungen, Behinderungen oder psycho-sozialen Unterstützungsbedarfen.
The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) celebrated its 3rd anniversary in December 2025. Since the launch of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) in July 2022, over 800 organisations worldwide have signed the agreement, committing to enact changes in how they assess research and researchers. This makes CoARA arguably the foremost initiative that is seeking to inspire and coordinate change in this important area.
On 18 September 2025, we first announced our new Certificate peer learning programme for gender in emergencies. The first course, a primer on the topic, then launched on 6 October. As of 21 January 2026, the gender community of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) now reaches 6,592 practitioners.
Registration is officially open for the Canada Student Journal Forum (SJF) 2026, happening February 17 – 19. This national gathering brings together student journal teams, authors, faculty mentors, and academic leaders from across the country. Registration for this virtual event is free.
Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Randy Napier of Perry, Kentucky For most travelers, the signs on Kentucky Route 15 are just green boards at the edge of Perry County. For people who grew up in the hills around Hazard, they tell a story.
Appalachian History Series – Highlander Folk School in Monteagle: Labor Education and Civil Rights Organizing on the Cumberland Plateau If you follow old U.S. 41 up Monteagle Mountain, you climb out of the Sequatchie Valley into a high, wooded plateau that feels apart from the rest of Tennessee. Near the community of Summerfield in Grundy County, a small campus once sat among the oaks and sandstone outcrops.
Appalachian Figures Series – The Story of Charles Davis of Perry, Kentucky On paper, “Charles Davis” ought to be the kind of name that disappears into the background of Perry County history. It is common, Anglo, and shared by more than one man on the North Fork. Yet when you start working through the records, the Davises refuse to stay generic. One Charles Davis from Hazard carried a rifle from the hills to the Olympic Games.
Abandoned Appalachia Series – Nuttallburg, Henry Ford, and a Smokeless Coal Town in the New River Gorge If you follow Keeneys Creek down from the highlands of Fayette County, West Virginia, the pavement narrows to a one lane road and drops into a gorge that feels closed off from the rest of the world. Trees lean over the hood of your car, rock walls press close, and the sound of the New River grows louder around each curve.
Appalachian History Series – The Johnstown Flood of 1889: Disaster in the Conemaugh Valley On the last day of May 1889, a muddy wall of water rushed down a narrow Appalachian valley toward the industrial town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Within minutes it ripped houses from their foundations, swept locomotives away like toys, and left thousands of people dead or missing.
There are many challenges associated with the curation, publication, acquisition, and usage of semantic mappings. This post examines their philosophical, technical, and practical implications, highlights existing solutions, and describes opportunities for next steps for the community of curators, semantic engineers, software developers, and data scientists who make and use semantic mappings.
Accelerationists vs. catastrophists in the decade defining convergence