About IASC Europe & CIS
The IASC was founded on May 27, 1989 and its legal address has been at Indiana University since then. Various global, regional and topical conferences have been organized in Europe over the years. Since 2018 we started to decentralize our coordination, particularly to facilitate understanding and practice of commons on more regional and local levels. We would like to support communication among the members as well as potential members of the association within the region/country/thematic areas, and reach out to broader external audiences.
Latest News
New research on common land organizations and institutions in the European Alps
Several IASC members report their research on mapping commons across six countries in Europe.
Join World Commons Week 2024 online on December 1-10!
Join webinars to celebrate commons research and practice on December 1 -10.
Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons – 2025
The call for nominations has been extended till 20 November 2024.
Global IASC 2025 Conference: Regenerating the Commons
20th Global Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons will be held on June 16-20th, 2025 at the University of ...
European Common Lands Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 9-13, 2024
Organised by IUCN, IASC Europe & CIS, and ICCA Consortium Europe, this event is set to improve the way rural people in Europe are ...
Join the webinar on Territories of Commons in Europe – July 23, 2024
Multiple IASC members are organizing a webinar addressing the Territories of Commons in Europe.
3rd IASC Europe & CIS Colloquium Series on Commons and Policy in 2024!
The new schedule for the 2024 IASC Europe & CIS Colloquium Series on Commons and Policy is being finalized.
Join World Commons Week 2023 online on December 4-10!
Join webinars to celebrate commons research and practice over the week of December 4th -10th.
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Regional Coordination Team
Tobias Haller
Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Haller is Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Zurich social anthropology, geography and sociology and made his PhD and his habilitation at the University of Zurich. After being project leader in the NCCCR North-South, he was appointed as Director of the Swiss Network for International Studies in Geneva in 2008. In 2009 he became Associate professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Bern until 2014 when he received an extraordinary professorship at the same institute.
Ilkhom Soliev
Professor of Environmental Sociology and Director of the Social Learning and Environmental Governance Lab, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist and interdisciplinary social-environmental researcher with focus on governance of common pool resources. He studies behavioral and institutional change for equitable and sustainable environmental governance. He examines societal transformations and path dependence across natural resource domains of water, land, forests, biodiversity, and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts. Currently he is leading the Horizon Europe Project PLANET4B. His most recent interests include experiential learning, survey experiments, power of discourse and social movements in the context of environmental governance, as well as transdisciplinary approaches to values and rights of nature.