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xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"scientific-synthesis\"\n    >\nScientific synthesis<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"reframing-complexity-through-collective-intelligence\"\n    >\nReframing complexity through collective intelligence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientific synthesis at LCSES offers a unique intellectual space for reframing complex socio-environmental questions, developed through integrating diverse disciplines, data science, and novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks. At LCSES Science-Synthesis-Lab, interdisciplinary groups of researchers converge around shared questions, creating fertile ground for bold, novel insights. Disciplinary boundaries are dissolved and new narratives emerge, narratives that are not only intellectually transformative but also relevant to real-world decisions. In this context, we foster co-development of research questions with stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring that science is actionable and contextually relevant.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section  wp-block-unilux-blocks-content-card-full-width py-0\">\n    <div class=\"container 2xl:max-w-screen-2xl\">\n        <div class=\"max-w-11\/12\">\n            <div class=\"content-card content-card--right  wp-block-unilux-blocks-content-card\">\n    \n<h2 class=\"content-card__heading has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"    >\n<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content-card__visual wp-block-unilux-blocks-content-card-visual-area\">\n    \n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-image-video-wrapper\">\n    <figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-scaled.jpeg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/10\/28160634\/Post-its_brainstorming-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 3\/2; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/section>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper content-card__overlay\">\n<a class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-button-highlight-rounded bottom-left\" \n    href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcses-en\/about\/#how-we-work-where-ideas-grow-together\"\n    target=\"_self\"\n>\n    \n<span class=\"btn-highlight-rounded__name wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">How we work<\/span>    <span class=\"icon-rounded\">\n        <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-right icon--lg\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-right\"><\/use><\/svg>    <\/span>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"content-card__body  wp-block-unilux-blocks-content-card-free-area\">\n    \n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"a-meeting-environment-designed-for-breakthroughs\"\n    >\nA meeting environment designed for breakthroughs<\/h2>\n\n<p>LCSES Science-Synthesis-Lab aims at lowering the \u201cactivation energy\u201d for creativity. We offer distraction-free environments, structured yet flexible collaboration formats, and support from experienced facilitators and data scientists. LCSES Science-Synthesis-Lab supports working groups, meeting in person over multiple sessions, allowing time for associative thinking, trust-building, and deep engagement. Whether one is an early-career researcher seeking meaningful collaboration or a senior scholar ready to explore new frontiers, this is a place to think together \u2013 and differently.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"from-insight-to-impact-across-scales\"\n    >\nFrom insight to impact \u2013 across scales<\/h2>\n\n<p>Synthesis science is not confined to theory. It is designed to be actionable, whether informing global frameworks like IPCC and IPBES, supporting innovation in underrepresented regions or testing policy ideas at the Luxembourg-EU scale. The goal is to co-create knowledge that matter: grounded in evidence, shaped by diverse voices, and ready to be applied. If you are motivated to build interdisciplinary teams that generate new science and drive change, science synthesis offers the infrastructure and ethos to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    The combination of logistical support, postdoctoral or senior fellowships, complex data management, informatics and computing capability or expertise, and most of all, opportunity for group discussion and reflection lowers the \u2018activation energy\u2019 necessary to promote creativity and the cross-fertilization of ideas.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">(Baron et al. 2017)<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><\/div><\/div>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"funding-mechanisms\"\n    >\nFunding mechanisms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ulux-list\">\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">LCSES will invite, through periodic calls, up to three <strong>Synthesis Working Groups<\/strong> per year. Aiming to team up with international and interdisciplinary participants with scientises from LCSES workshop groups will be hosted at the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/maison-schuman\/\">Maison Schuman<\/a> building.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">LCSES will support workshop groups with funding for <strong>PostDocs<\/strong>, which provide high level support for synthesis workshop teams.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">LCSES will also open funding for <strong>early career scientists<\/strong> that wish to develop themselves and the interdisciplinary field of socio environmental systems based on research proposal in line with LCSES research ambitions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">LCSES will further develop a specific <strong>PhD program<\/strong> to introduce students to independent smaller science-synthesis projects and workshops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First calls will open in 2026<\/strong>. We are currently establishing the team in the synthesis lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-buttons btn-list justify-center\"><li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-custom-button\"    aria-disabled=\"false\"\n    >\n    <a\n        role=\"link\"\n        aria-disabled=\"false\"\n                    href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/lcses-en\/lcses\/join-us\/\"\n                target=\"_self\"\n        class=\"btn btn--primary\"\n            > Join us<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"py-0 wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"interdisciplinary-research-at-the-university\"\n    >\nInterdisciplinary research at the University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary research is at the heart of the University of Luxembourg, supported also by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/research-en\/ias\/\">Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)<\/a>, which offers funding instruments to foster collaboration within the university: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ulux-list\">\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">\u2018Distinguished\u2019 \u2013 joining forces with international scientists; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">\u2018Audacity\u2019 \u2013 for audacious interdisciplinarity research; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">\u2018Young Academics\u2019 \u2013 to attract outstanding PhD candidates and Post-doctoral researchers; and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"ulux-list-item\">\u2018Brainstorm\u2019 \u2013 forums to exchange on emerging research reflexion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"read-more\"\n    >\nRead more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-button-list-v2\">\n<li 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