Berlin – November 03, 2026 -- Seventy-two percent of German civil society organizations look to their future with confidence, even as 73% name bureaucracy and administrative burden as a key obstacle, according to the first Zuversichtsbarometer ("confidence barometer") from the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

AURORA, Colo. – November 03, 2026 -- The NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem now connects research datasets from 18 NIH programs, and University of Colorado Anschutz researchers are helping evaluate whether the shared infrastructure delivers measurable value, according to a new paper in Patterns.

The initiative spans human genetics, the microbiome and emerging technologies. It aims to make complex datasets easier to find, interpret and analyze, including for researchers without advanced programming or bioinformatics expertise.

Beijing – November 01, 2026 -- Nearly 200 Chinese and foreign guests will convene in the port city of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, from November 2 to 5 for the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue·Ningbo, themed "Openness and Connectivity for Shared Opportunities."

Attendees include mayors of Ningbo's international sister cities, foreign diplomats in China and representatives of international organizations. Organizers aim to build consensus on openness and cooperation and to foster a new ecosystem of city-to-city collaboration.

SHENZHEN, China – October 31, 2026 -- A previously disclosed hydrogen-production catalyst collaboration supported by Wenge AI's ScienceOra platform reported a 38% improvement in catalyst activity and cut the design stage from several months to 30 minutes. Wenge AI (1956.HK) demonstrated the platform's catalyst design workflow at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit.

BEIJING – October 30, 2026 -- The 11th Global Mazu Culture Forum opens October 31 in Putian, Fujian Province, with overseas guests from 47 countries and regions and the release of version 2.0 of China's open-source Mass Conservation Ocean Model (MaCOM).

MaCOM 2.0 goes open-source worldwide at the Putian forum

The forum runs through November 2. It comprises a main forum, 10 thematic forums and supporting events across 13 additional venues. MaCOM was developed independently by China and will be available globally as open-source software.

Wiesbaden – October 30, 2026 -- Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) will publish four datasets on Thursday, 5 November 2026, led by September manufacturing orders and turnover, and will follow on Friday, 6 November with the September production index.

Thursday brings manufacturing, services and labour cost data

Release No. 385 covers manufacturing orders and turnover for September 2026. Destatis will also publish services turnover for August 2026 (No. 387) and the labour cost survey for 2024 (No. 388).

Berlin – October 29, 2026 -- The EUstay project will produce ten multimedia content packages over the next 12 months, each covering one EU-funded Interreg cohesion project, and make them available free of charge to local media and stakeholders.

SHANGHAI – October 27, 2026 -- The Shanghai Technology Business Incubation Association (STBIA) and the World Laureates Foundation (WLF) signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the opening of the World Top-performing Incubator Conference 2026, held on October 26 at the Lingang Center.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October 27, 2026 -- Eagleview told emergency managers that a below-average 2026 Atlantic hurricane season does not mean low risk, pointing to 1992, when six named storms still produced Hurricane Andrew and $27.3 billion in damage. The geospatial intelligence (GeoAI) provider issued a preparedness briefing after NOAA, Colorado State University and AccuWeather all projected a below-average season.

Christchurch – October 19, 2026 -- Colossal has bought a giant moa egg from Artemis Gallery in Louisville, Colorado, and will return it to New Zealand for care under the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, with a repatriation ceremony planned for December.

The egg was found in New Zealand on January 14, 1966, and spent roughly six decades in a private American collection before it resurfaced at public auction. Auction records indicate it may come from a Moa Hunter-period burial site dating to around AD 1300. Further research is needed to confirm that provenance.