Siying Chen, Mei Ai and Christine Heinzel attended the General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which was held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from 14–19 April 2024.

The Congress of American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 started on April 16, 2024 at Honolulu, Hawai'i. Dr. Emlyn Yang and Mr. Wenhan Feng attended the conference, chaired two sessions and presented research results about STORIES.

STORIES project and Harvard University will convene an International workshop on Climate-resilient development in Southeast Asia at Harvard University, USA, on July 25-26, 2024

Dr. Emlyn Yang, Wenhan Feng and Christine Heinzel attended the 62. German Geography Congress (Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, DKG), which took place from September 19 to 23 at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

Wenhan participated in the Complex Networks Summer School at the University of Oxford, the Computational Social Science Summer School at Huazhong Agricultural University, the Annual Conference of the Asian Social Simulation Association in Wuhan, the Social Simulation Conference 2023 in Glasgow and the Behave ABM Summer School in Brescia, Italy.

In August 2023, Dr. Emlyn Yang, Wenhan Feng and Christine Heinzel from LMU Munich visited the STORIES project partners in China to jointly conduct the first fieldwork phase of the project.

The Congress of European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2023 started on Monday April 24, 2023 at the Austria Center, Vienna. Dr. Emlyn Yang attended the conference, chaired a session and presented research results about household flood responses. Mr. Wenhan Feng presented his study on agent-based model.

STORIES has officially started on April 01, 2023! A kickoff meeting was held in hybrid mode on April 06, 2023, where all the project members in Munich, Chengdu and Kunming participated.

The European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) was organizing a training conference for ERC Principle Investigators in collaboration with the German National Contact Point. Dr. Emlyn Yang attended the meeting and discussed various project management issues with over 100 other ERC project PIs.

The Harvard-China Project (HCP) is an interdisciplinary research program on China's atmospheric environment, energy system, and economy, collaborating across schools of Harvard and partner universities in China. Dr. Emlyn Yang gave an invited talk at the HCP’s research seminar on topic of climate resilience in the Mekong basin.

The Chair of Human Geography at LMU Munich held a two-day international workshop (01-02 December 2022) on Flood Risk and Resilience at Community Level. About 40 people (including speakers and audiences) attended the workshop. The workshop is a planned event of the Sino-German Mobility Program "FReCom". Dr. Emlyn Yang and colleagues took lead in coordinating and organizing the workshop.

As the STORIES project is expected to start in April 2023, it started to call for new members in the end of 2022. This call includes two positions, one postdoc researcher on modeling flood resilience and one PhD student on empirical flood resilience studies.

“How can you live here?” LMU Munich interviewed the PI Dr. Emlyn Yang and reported the STORIES project with the attractive title. The article was published as a highlight on the cover page of LMU’s homepage on 28 September 2022. An introduction video was also released on the same day at LMU’s Youtube channel.

After a long period of preparation on various aspects, ERCEA and LMU Munich as the host institute signed the Grant Agreement on 12 July 2022. The Grant Agreement as an official document formally confirmed the grant to Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang at LMU Munich and the associated aspects regarding the budget management, project implementation, interim reports, ethnic clearance, etc.

The Meeting with Bavarian Young Researchers (Treffen mit Bayerns Wissenschaftsnachwuchs) was hold at the State Chancellery (Bayerische Staatskanzlei) at Munich on the 3rd of May 2022. The meeting was organized to gether Bavaria young researchers who won the ERC Stating Grant early this year. Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang was invited to the meeting and presented his grant STORIES.

Research proposal of the STORIES project was submitted in April 2021. After three rounds of reviews in about 8 months, the ERC Executive Agency announced formally on 10 January 2022 that STORIES was approved for funding. As the host institute, LMU released the news of its four successful grants including STORIES on the same day.