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09/12/2022 - This year's artist in residence at the Potsdam Institute is from the Ukraine. Mariia Mytrofanova, a visual artist and performer from Odessa, was successful in the bidding for the three month residency from September until end of November 2022. During her stay, Mariia Mytrofanova will focus on the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the planet and the world's well-being - and try to implement scientific insights into her art.

10/7/2021 - Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, a Serbian-born architect and theorist living and working mainly in New York, has arrived at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as the new Artist in Residence. He was selected from over 300 international applications for the program and will be a guest in Potsdam from October to December 2021. In addition to publishing numerous articles and books, he has been a research director at Herzog and de Meuron Architects in Basel, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and founder of NAO.NYC ("Normal Architecture Office").

09/15/2020 – Facebook, a major global social media channel, starts a Climate Science Information Center featuring scientific contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and other leading institutions. PIK will contribute alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Marine and Polar Research (AWI), and Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Since long, Potsdam researchers provide scientific information to stakeholders across economic sectors and across the political spectrum, as well as to media and a broader public.