CIB Café

On July 10, 2025, we welcomed Prof. Markus Bresinsky at the CIB Café. He is a political scientist and economist with extensive experience as a policy analyst and consultant and holds a chair in International Politics and Social Sciences. At the 15th Café event, Markus Bresinsky reported on the scenarios for Russia’s development after 2030,

On April 3, 2025, Dr. Wolfgang Hauser and Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle introduced the Serious Gaming platform “Futurescapes Navigator” developed within the ZuWaKo project. The platform builds upon the logic of Cross-Impact Balance analysis (CIB) (Weimer-Jehle 2006). CIB describes a system as a network of descriptors with mutual cross-impacts, which foster or hinder the development of

On February 20, Heiner Kaufmann, senior corporate developer at the Swiss Federal Railways SBB, presented the SBB scenario space 2050. This scenario approach supports the strategy development at SBB, preparing the company to plan for and to adapt to future changes in its contexts. He proposed multiple possibilities to use generative AI in the course

“A novel analytical framework for backcasting – Integrating Cross-Impact Balance Analysis with Actor Analysis to generate transformation pathways to sustainable futures” was the title of the talk by Dr. Mert Duygan from the Centre for Development and Environment CDE, University of Bern on October 10, 2024. Mert presented a new way to apply CIB to

On July 25, 2024, Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle presented and launched the new online version of the CIB software ScenarioWizard. The ScenarioWizard is the free software for easy use of the qualitative system and scenario method CIB (Cross-Impact Balance Analysis). CIB was developed about 20 years ago by Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle. The new web application provides an

On July 4, 2024, Dr. Norman M. Kearney Dr. Norman Kearney from the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern was our guest at the ZuWaKo CIB-Café #9. He presented his work around „Nature based solutions for sustainable food systems: agroforestry in Peru“. Norman has developed an application (Prophesy) that advances options to carry

CIB-café #9 took place on June 6, 2024 (14:00-15:00 CET). Dr. Christian Sponagel from the University of Hohenheim gave a talk about pathways to prevent biodiversity decline in agricultural landscapes. He presented four different pathways that can be considered plausible options to reduce biodiversity decline in Germany developed with CIB and the policy recommendations to

On February 29, 2024, Sigrid Prehofer from ZIRIUS at the University of Stuttgart presented her work with CIB in the ReMoDigital  project. She explained the various roles that CIB can play in a multi-model ensemble and highlighted the function of CIB for sensemaking, i.e. the interpretation and synthesis of modeling results.