Tropentag 2025:

We are seeking student reporters

Be a student reporter at the Tropentag 2025

Tropentag, the conference on tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development is an annual conference organised by ATSAF e.V. in collaboration with European universities since 1999 (www.tropentag.de). Tropentag 2025 will be organised as a hybrid conference by University of Bonn / ZEF, Germany.
We will have an in-person conference, but all oral presentation sessions will be live-streamed via an online conference platform. The Tropentag 2025 conference will summarize recent disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to address “Reconciling land system changes with planetary health”. To increase the outreach of the event, ATSAF e.V. sponsors a team of 12 student reporters to give an account of the event.

The theme of Tropentag 2025 is
Reconciling land system changes with planetary health
Tropentag 2025 addresses issues such as the urgently needed transformation in agriculture and food systems, agroecology, livestock management, food and nutrition sovereignty, forestry, sustainable water resources and fisheries, environmental conservation, socio-ecology, structural inequalities in the governance of natural resources based on gender, age, socio-economic status and other social categories, in the context of rural development, sustainable natural resources management, and poverty alleviation worldwide.

The following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation:

Jennie Barron, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. for Soil and Environment, Uppsala, Sweden

Anja Gassner, Managing Director, CIFOR Germany gGmbH; Director Europe

Johanna Jacobi, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Agrarökologische Transitionen, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Nzula Kitaka, Egerton University, Dept Biological Science, Kenya

Lerato Thakholi, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands / University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Johannes M. Waldmüller, Department of Political Science, International Politics, University Vienna, Austria

Feras Ziadat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

and as invited speaker in the oral presentation session "cropping systems":

Achille Assogbadjo, Lab of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

To increase the outreach of the event, ATSAF is looking for a team of student reporters to give an account of the event.

What does this mean for you?

As a student reporter, you will attend an online workshop before the conference and a 2-day- workshop just before the conference in September 2025 on journalism & social media. Student reporters will work in an interdisciplinary team of 12 international students who continuously contribute to a multi-author blog with text and visual content from 11th - 13th September 2025 in Vienna at the Tropentag.
In the blog and other media (e.g. instagram, facebook, YouTube) the student reporters will summarize the discussions and report on recent trends, hot topics, or emerging issues during the conference. On Sept 14th, 2024, a final seminar on “The way forward to a professional career” will wrap up the activities.
ATSAF e.V. will cover all travel costs (low emission transportation means are strongly suggested), accommodation, and registration fee for the conferences. Furthermore, every student reporter will receive a flat rate compensation of expenses of 150 Euro.

Who can apply?

The application is open to students affiliated to a European university. Applicants must be fluent in English and should have a keen interest in the topic of the conference, interview and writing techniques, and social media.
Please apply with a short CV outlining your experience in the relevant fields and a motivation letter (maximum 1 page). Please explicitly state your level of skill in the use of visual media, social media, writing for a wider public and/or digital photography or video recording in your application. For more information, visit our website.

Please send your application in one (1) pdf file named 'your‐name‐studenreporter‐2024.pdf' to studentreporter@atsaf.de

Deadline for application is 1 July 2025.

Download this call for application: StudentReporters.pdf