Kim Doell among the 2024 Falling Walls Global Call Winners
Kim Doell, a junior group leader at the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, has been honoured as one of the 2024 Falling Walls Global Call winners. The award celebrates researchers who have submitted "ground-breaking projects."
“It is really an honour to have the Manylabs Climate project selected as one of the winners for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year in the Social Sciences & Humanities category!” says Kim Doell, who leads the Environmental Collective Behaviour (ECo) Group at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour.
Kim Doell led an international team of hundreds of behavioural scientists and climate psychology experts focused on developing and testing 11 psychological interventions to enhance climate awareness, policy support, and pro-environmental action. Through a large-scale experiment involving over 59,000 participants from 63 countries, Doell's team identified the need for tailored interventions, revealing significant variations in effectiveness across different contexts. They also created an open-access WebApp to help users discover effective strategies for their local areas. Doell's work underscores the importance of understanding diverse psychological responses to combat climate change effectively.
About the Falling Walls Science Summit
Falling Walls Science Summit is the forum for global science leaders with focus on science driven breakthroughs. The summit takes place every year in Berlin from 7 – 9 November, the anniversary day of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This holistic approach of international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral discourse is globally unique and attracts leading researchers, CTOs, science strategists, sciences funders, policy makers and media worldwide.
Key facts
- Kim Doell heads the Environmental Collective Behaviour (ECo) Group at the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz.
- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz is a global hotspot for the study of collective behaviour across a wide range of species and across scales of organization. It is a Cluster of Excellence within the framework of the German Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.
