Beat the Heat Conference 2025

On behalf of the organizing committee, we are pleased to announce the “Beat the Heat: Conference 2025” taking place on Thursday, 28 August 2025 at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Allschwil.

Scope

This year's "Beat the Heat" conference invites experts, researchers, and practitioners to address the challenges posed by urban heat and explore potential solutions. We aim to provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing, foster networking and strengthening the exchange among the Swiss research, services, and implementation community on the interactions between cities, climate change, and human health. Situated within the field of urban climatology and related disciplines, the conference offers an opportunity to present findings from past and ongoing research projects as well as practical applications in planning and implementation.

Contributions

Contributions are invited on various aspects of urban heat, including measurement, modeling, heat mitigation and adaptation, as well as impacts on health, health systems and social well-being. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions and contributions from young researchers on one of these three topics:

• Mitigation, resilience and impacts
• Measurements and monitoring
• Modelling and simulations

Abstract submission and registration

Abstract submission deadline - 16 May 2025.

Registration deadline - 14 August 2025.
The conference is free however, registration is required.
 

Organizing committee

Martina Ragettli and Mirko Winkler, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Markus Kalberer and Stavros Stagakis, University of Basel

When and where

Date	28 August 2025
Time	09:15 - 17:00 CEST
Venue	Swiss TPH Kreuzstrasse 2 4123 Allschwil Switzerland