In a significant stride toward fostering global collaboration on research for sustainable development, Future Earth is launching a new Global Coordination Hub jointly hosted by the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory® at Arizona State University (ASU).

Operating with offices in Germany and the United States, the Global Coordination Hub will enhance coordination across Future Earth’s globally distributed Secretariat and support collaboration among its research networks and partners worldwide. The Hub will coordinate strategic, operational, and communications activities across the network and will be led by an Executive Director based at GERICS in Hamburg, Germany. Wendy Broadgate, Director of the Future Earth Swedish Global Hub, is serving as interim Executive Director until the role is filled.

“The Global Coordination Hub positions Future Earth to work more strategically as a network and gives us the structure to better connect our community and deliver more impactful science,” says Broadgate.

The partnership between GERICS and the ASU Global Futures Laboratory builds on more than a decade of collaboration and reflects a shared commitment to advancing sustainability research and strengthening connections between science, policy and society.

Read more in the full announcements from GERICS and Arizona State University.