8 defended their Doctoral at thesis at either ETH Zurich or University of Zurich by M60. 3 are scheduled for the next 3 months and 16 until the end of 2025. To be mentioned explicitly, ESR24 has been selected as one of the top 30 young scientists addressing climate change and earning the prestigious Inflection PhD Award. ESR05 participated in the MSCA Science-Policy Pitch Competition 2023 (Toledo, Spain) and won in category “Contribution to wider EU policy priorities“.
Approaching the imminent completion of the RESPONSE DP, the ESRs, the PIs and Partners as well as the great achievements in research, Doctoral training as well as collaborations have been celebrated officially with the RESPONSE Symposium on December 5, 2024. At this event, 27 ESRs presented their individual project though posters and as part of a 17-min documentary (i.e. film).
Fulfilled by M60 and by the end of the fifth year:
Training:
• 22 ESRs completed the PhD Program in Science and Policy, remaining 5 ESRs will finish it by M60+5 (1 ESR have left the program earlier).
• The RESPONSE Summer School has been completed successfully with 17 ESRs and other early career scientists attending in year 3, remaining 11 fellows visited another accredited summer school.
• Secondments: 27 ESRs have finished their secondments. 1 ESR will complete the secondment in M60+5.
• Stakeholder Meetings: 25 ESRs have conducted their stakeholder workshop.
Publications:
• 25 ESRs published in open access and peer-reviewed journal, 60 manuscripts are in preparation or planned.
Conferences:
• First Annual Meeting (M13): At the first Annual Meeting (M13) 14 appointed ESRs presented their research projects.
• Second Annual Meeting (M26): All 28ESRs presented the progress of their individual projects.
• Third Annual Meeting (M38): All 28 ESRs presented the progress of their individual projects.
• 28 ESRs presented their research with 65 talks and 34 posters at national and international conferences.
Policy and Science:
• Policy Outcomes: 12 ESRs have published non-peer-revied publications such as policy briefs (4), white papers (2), fact sheets (2), synthesis reports (2), book chapter (1) or others.
• 27 ESRs have joined one of the Citizen Consensus Conferences for engaging actively with stakeholders in their research field organized by the collaborating competences centers (ESR, 2021; WFSC, 2022, and PSC, 2023).
Public Engagement Activities
• 28 ESRs have participated in outreach and public engagement activities, including blog articles (27), science fairs (13), school class workshops (3) and others.
