Conferences and workshops (since 2019)
- In October 2025, Prof. Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen participated in the 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals in Shanghai, China. More than 2,000 Chinese and international scholars participated in the event.
- In September 2025, Mang Hung Do and the team of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), headed by Dr. Quoc Thong Ho and Ms. Phuong Linh T. Nguyen organized the one-week training of enumerators and data checking assistants at the UEH in Ho Chi Minh City.
- In September 2025, Manh Hung Do and the team of the Kasetsart University (KU), headed by Prof. Dr. Thanaporn Athipanyakul and Dr. Jumtip Seneerattanaprayul organized the one-week training workshop of enumerators and data checking assistants at the KU in Bangkok.
- In July 2025, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote and Prof. Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen were invited to provide speeches on their research at the International Conference of Economists 2025, the 18th National Conference of Economists, and 18th Graduate Conference in Economics. In addition, submissions of TVSEP research papers by Thi Minh Nguyet Tran and Kasem Kunasri (both LUH) were accepted for presentation at the conference.
- In July 2025, the Kasetsart University (KU) organized a TVSEP data user workshop which was well attended by about 50 TVSEP data users from different universities from Thailand (including KU, Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thaksin University etc.). The organizing team included Prof. Dr. Suwanna Praneetvatakul (KU and TVSEP Co-PI) and Prof. Dr. Thanaporn Athipanyakul (KU and TVSEP affiliate). The lectures on Stata were taken over in Thai language by Prof. Kasem Kunasri (Leibniz University Hannover (LUH)), Dr. Chompunut Nuntajit (Ramkhamhaeng University) and Prof. Dr. Uchook Duangbootsee (KU) with support from Thi Minh Nguyet Tran and Prof. Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen (both LUH). The introduction into the TVSEP project was given by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote (LUH).
- In June 2025, Anna Gasten, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote,Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Dr. Eva Seewald, participated in the German Development Economics Conference and provided in a poster session some information on the TVSEP Project to promote the use of its data to a wider academic audience. The international conference was well attended and took place at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
- In March 2025, TVSEP organized together with the College of Economics, Law and Government at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (CELG-UEH) an International Conference on „Poverty dynamics and sustainable development in Thailand and Vietnam“. Prof. Dr. Phạm Khánh Nam, Rector of CELG-UEH, and Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez co-organizer from the University of Cologne, opened the two days conference which was attended by around 70 participants especially from Vietnam, Thailand and Germany. The event featured 9 sessions with 29 engaging presentations, all of which were followed by lively discussions and highly appreciated by the participants. The conference started with a keynote speech by Ulrike Grote and Trung Thanh Nguyen and ended with a podium discussion, moderated by Javier Revilla Diez, on further research needs and the future of TVSEP with contributions from Phạm Bảo Dương (Vice Rector of Bac Giang Agricultural and Forestry University and Co-PI), Phạm Khánh Nam (Rector of CELG-UEH and TVSEP Board Member), Nipon Poapongsakorn (Director of the Thailand Development Research Institute and TVSEP Board Member), Tuantong Jutagate (Vice President of Ubon Ratchathani University), Christiane Joerk (German Research Foundation DFG) and Trung Thanh Nguyen (PI of TVSEP project).
- In March 2025,Prof. Trung Thanh Nguyen and Dr. Manh Hung Do from Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) and the TVSEP team (Eva Seewald, Nguyet Tran, Dr. Oliver Burau, Tri Anh Nguyen, Ole Lück, Kasem Kunasri, Gokul Paudel) in cooperation with the College of Economics, Law and Government (CELG) organized a „TVSEP data user workshop“ at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH).
- In September 2024, the training of the team leaders, enumerators and data checking assistants started in Ubon at the Ubon Ratchathani University (UBU). The team of UBU, headed by Nopporn Tantisirin, organized the one week training workshop in cooperation with teams from LUH (Ulrike Grote, Manh Hung Do and Eva Seewald) and Cologne (Ole Lück).
- In September 2024, Manh Hung Do, Ulrike Grote and Eva Seewald conducted a data user workshop in the computer lab of the Chiang Mai University.
- In September 2024, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote and Dr. Manh Hung Do were invited speakers at the International Conference on Asian Economic Development (AED2024) under the heading “Sustainability of Asian Economy under Global Conflict“ held by the Faculty of Economics at the Chiang Mai University.
- In July 2024, two TVSEP sessions were organized at the International Conference on Economy, Law, and Government 2024 (ELG2024) which was officially held by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH).
- In July 2024, the International Conference on Economy, Law, and Government 2024 (ELG2024) was officially held by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH). Ulrike Grote was invited to give one of the keynote speeches. She presented the topic “Digitalization: Opportunities and Risks for Sustainability” and referred to TVSEP research linked to digitalization.
- In February 2024, Manh Hung Do, Ulrike Grote, Trung Thanh Nguyen and Nelson Ochieng participated in a Survey Solutions workshop. This workshop was organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, and provided an excellent introduction into Survey Solutions, a free software developed by the Data group of the World Bank.
- In October 2023, Ulrike Grote provided the keynote address at the 12th International Conference on Asian Economic Development (AED2023) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
- In September 2023, Robyn Blake-Rath, Luzia Deißler, Ulrike Grote, Nelson Ochieng, Brigitte Ruesink and Eva Seewald participated in the international Tropentag confernce in Berlin. At this conference, three papers related to the TVSEP long-term project were presented.
- In June 2023, Robyn Blake-Rath participated in the German Development Economics Conference in Dresden. The conference was organized by the Verein für Socialpolitik, the Technical University Dresden, together with, the ZIS and sponsored by the KFW.
- In May 2023, Robyn Blake-Rath and Soschia Karimi participated in the 5th workshop on "Applied Economics" for young scientists which took place in Hannover.
- In March 2023, Ulrike Grote and Hermann Waibel organized a symposium and a session at the conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) in collaboration with the Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ) in Tokyo with a total of eight presentations based on TVSEP data. For the program, see button 'ASAE conference 2023' below.
- In May 2022, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Ute Rink organized the International TVSEP Conference on “Shocks and resilience in rural Southeast Asia” in Göttingen. The conference included 54 in person and about 30 online participants, two keynotes and a panel discussion on the “Prospects and challenges of long-term panels”. Beyond participants affiliated to German universities, international participants came from Australia (U Queensland, Wilfried Lauriel U), Canada (U Saskatchewan), Spain (UAB, Barcelona), Thailand (TDRI, Kasetsart U, Ubon Ratchathani U), UK (U Manchester, U Cambridge), and USA (Cornell U). Moreover, best past publications were showcased and best research prizes were awarded. The easing of travel restrictions also made it possible for five colleagues from Thailand to participate in presence in the international TVSEP conference and a face-to-face coordination meeting between the Thai and the German partners took place. For the conference program, see button 'TVSEP conference Göttingen' below.
- In February 2022, Hermann Waibel and Niels Wendt held a seminar with Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff in Bangkok to explore cooperation opportunities. ADB is particularly interested in the 2020/21 special COVID-19 survey for measuring the impacts of its loan to Thailand on the rural population. Furthermore, ADB supports a project on organic rice in the province of Yasothon, a neighboring province to the TVSEP province Ubon Ratchathani. Hence, the TVSEP data could be used as counterfactual in impact assessment studies.
- In February 2022, the Vietnam Country Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a conference (hybrid) with Joseph E. Stiglitz as keynote speaker and Achim Steiner, Administrator of UNDP. Hermann Waibel was invited to a special session to give a speech on TVSEP’s research output in Vietnam.
- In December 2021, Hermann Waibel together with Sabine Liebenehm, Mark Brooks and Chompunuch Nantajit organized a session with the title: "Panel Data Collection and Sustainable Land Use in Asia" at the 10th Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASEA) International Conference in Beijing (online).
- In November 2020, Ulrike Grote gave a seminar on the TVSEP project at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, UK. The research stay of the doctoral student Eva Seewald in spring/summer 2022 at the University of Cambridge has continued the cooperation with C-EENRG and the exchange on TVSEP research.
- In September 2020, TVSEP’s partner university in Thailand, the Ubon Ratchathani University, in close cooperation with Hermann Waibel and active involvement of the TVSEP Team, organized its "Annual Data User (Online) Conference". The purpose of the conference was to present and discuss results and progress of research carried out by TVSEP data users from Thailand and Vietnam. About 60 participants attended the conference.
- In May 2020, Stephan Thomsen and Wiebke Stein organized an online workshop with project partners from Thailand and Vietnam and TVSEP data users to facilitate exchange on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the survey areas. The workshop was attended by around 40 international researchers.
- In January 2020, Wiebke Stein and Ute Rink represented the TVSEP at the DFG booth at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA meetings) in San Diego.
- In 2019, Stephan Thomsen organized a TVSEP conference session at the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) in Singapore in which he and three other TVSEP researchers (Sabine Liebenehm, Andre Gröger and Wiebke Stein) presented findings from TVSEP projects.
Furthermore, TVSEP researchers including doctoral students and post-docs have presented and discussed results at many international and national conferences which contributed to the increased visibility of the TVSEP project internationally. During the last three years, these included the following:
- 6th Mahidol Migration Center (MMC) Conference, Bangkok (Thailand) 2022;
- German Development Economics Conference, Hohenheim/Stuttgart 2022;
- German Development Economics Conference, Hamburg (hybrid) 2021;
- World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA) 2021 (online);
- International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2021 (online);
- European Economic Association Annual Conference 2020 (online);
- German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2019;
- International Association on Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) and World Bank Conference "New Approaches to Defining and Measuring Poverty in a Growing World" (Washington D.C. 2019);
- Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) Junior Researcher Conference (Freiburg 2019),
- Sustainability and Development Conference, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA, 2019).
Awards
In 2025, Manh Hung Do received the Victor Rizkallah Award for his outstanding PhD thesis on "Rural Development Policies in Southeast Asia: Impacts on Household Livelihoods, Welfare and Rural Transformation".
In 2022, Sabine Liebenehm received the Best Paper Award at the International TVSEP Conference in Göttingen, whereas the Best Student Paper Awards went to Maria Hart and David Granada.
In 2021, Wiebke Stein received the Victor Rizkallah Award for her outstanding PhD thesis on “Debt, Personality and Well-being in Southeast Asia”.
In 2020, Sina Bierkamp received the Hans Hartwig Ruthenberg Graduate Award for her outstanding Master thesis that used TVSEP data.
