25 April 2025 / Budapest
25 April 2025 / Budapest
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. (registered office: 2600 Vác, Vám utca 13. hereinafter referred to as the provider, data controller) as the data controller, acknowledges the contents of this legal notice as binding. It undertakes to ensure that all processing of data related to its activities complies with the requirements set out in this Policy and in the applicable national legislation and European Union acts.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. reserves the right to make changes to this information at any time. It will of course inform its audience of any changes in due time.
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Tideus Innovation, Development and Services Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. is committed to protecting the personal data of its customers and partners and attaches the utmost importance to respecting the right of customers to information self-determination. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. treats personal data confidentially and takes all security, technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of the data. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. describes its data management practices below.
If you wish to contact our Company, you can contact the data controller using the following contact details. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. will delete all e-mails received by it, together with the sender’s personal data, after a maximum of 2 years from the date of the communication.
Name: Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd.
Registered office: 2600 Vác, Vám utca 13.
Company registration number: 13-09-190838
Name of the court of registration: Company Court
Tax number: 26213240-2-13
Telephone number: +36 30 225 4000
E-mail: info@tideus.com
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
Name: Zsolt Szalóczy
Phone number: +36 30 225 4000
The Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. processes the following data voluntarily provided by the data subject in relation to attending the World Adaptation Forum:
Name
E-mail address
Signature
The World Adaptation Forum event will be recorded on video and audio in accordance with the provisions of the Hungarian Civil Code on public appearances and public recordings (Civil Code, § 2:48 (2)). Participants were informed of this prior to registering for the event and when their registration was confirmed. The purpose of the recording is to record the event to verify that it has taken place. The footage may also be published on the event’s website and social media platforms.
If you do not wish to be included in the footage, please notify the person who recorded the footage or our Data Protection Officer.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. selects and operates the IT tools used for the processing of personal data in the provision of the service in such a way that the processed data:
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall take appropriate measures to protect the data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, disclosure, deletion, or destruction and against accidental destruction. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall ensure the security of data processing by implementing technical, and organisational measures to provide a level of protection appropriate to the risks associated with the processing. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall retain the following during the processing
The purpose of processing the data provided during registration is to determine the eligibility of participants to attend the event.
The purpose of the audio and video recording of the World Adaptation Forum event is to record the event for the purpose of verifying that the event has taken place. The recordings may also be published on the event’s website and social media platforms.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd.’s data management is based on voluntary consent and legal authorization. In the case of processing based on voluntary consent, data subjects may withdraw their consent at any stage of the processing. In certain cases, the processing, storage, and transmission of some of the data provided is required by law and we will inform our customers separately. We would like to draw the attention of the data providers to the Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. to the fact that if they do not provide their own personal data, the data provider is obliged to obtain the consent of the data subject. Its data management principles comply with the applicable data protection legislation, in particular with the following:
Your personal data (i.e. data that can be associated with you personally) may be processed by us in the following ways: on the one hand, your participation in the event will be identified on the basis of the name and e-mail address provided by you during the online registration, whereby you will sign the attendance sheet, and on the other hand, by participating in the event, you agree to be included in the audio and video recording of the event.
Data related to the World Adaptation Forum event may be transferred to the event organisers.
The data subject may request information on the processing of his/her personal data, and may request the rectification, erasure, or withdrawal of his/her personal data, except for mandatory data processing, and may exercise his/her right to data portability and objection in the manner indicated when the data were collected, or by contacting the controller at the above contact details.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall take appropriate measures to provide data subjects with all the information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR and all the information referred to in Articles 15 to 22 and 34 of the GDPR concerning the processing of personal data in a concise, transparent, intelligible, and easily accessible form, in a clear and plain language.
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller feedback as to whether or not his or her personal data are being processed and, if such processing is ongoing, the right to access the personal data and the following information: the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom or with which the personal data have been or will be disclosed, including in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations; the envisaged period of storage of the personal data; the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing and the right to object; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; information on the data sources; the fact of automated decision-making, including profiling, and clear information on the logic used and the significance of such processing and its likely consequences for the data subject. The controller shall provide the information within a maximum of one month from the date of the request.
The data subject may request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her processed by Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. and the completion of incomplete data.
The data subject shall have the right to have personal data relating to him or her erased by Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. without undue delay upon request if one of the following grounds applies:
The erasure of data cannot be initiated if the processing is necessary:
Upon the data subject’s request, Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. will restrict the processing of data if one of the following conditions is met:
Where processing is restricted, personal data, except for storage, may be processed only with the consent of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or of an important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her which he or she has provided to the controller in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and to transmit these data to another controller.
The data subject shall have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to processing of his or her personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, or necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, including profiling based on those provisions. In the event of an objection, the controller may no longer process the personal data, unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for doing so which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
The data subject has the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time.
The data subject may take legal action against the controller in the event of a breach of his or her rights. The court shall rule on the matter out of turn.
Complaints may be lodged with the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information:
1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9-11
Address for correspondence: 1363 Budapest, Pf. 9
Phone: +36 1 391 1400, +36 30 683 5969
Fax: +36 1 391 14 10
E-mail: ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu
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We inform our customers that the court, the prosecutor, the investigating authority, the law enforcement authority, the administrative authority, the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, the National Bank of Hungary, or other bodies authorised by law may request the data controller to provide information, to disclose or transfer data, or to provide documents. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall disclose personal data to the authorities only to the extent and to the extent strictly necessary for the purpose of the request, provided that the authorities have indicated the exact purpose and scope of the data.
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Iñigo Capellán-Pérez – Principal Investigator at the University of Valladolid
Iñigo Capellán-Pérez is an Industrial Engineer with a double degree from the University of Valladolid and ENSAM-Arts-et-Métiers (France). Master in Electric Energy and Sustainable Development and PhD in Economics „Development and Application of Environmental Integrated Assessment Modelling towards Sustainability” at the University of the Basque Country (2016). His research focuses on analyzing and modelling energy-economy-environment systems using System Dynamics. His main areas of study include the transition to renewable energy amid fossil fuel depletion and climate change, techno-sustainable limits of renewables, the net energy and material requirements of this transition, and the technical and social transformations needed for sustainability.
Raphaël Stevens – Eco-Adviser and a Fellow Researcher at the Momentum Institute
Raphaël Stevens is a Belgian researcher exploring societal collapse, and pathways to renewal at the Momentum Institute in Paris. He is the author of several books including the international bestsellers „How Everything Can Collapse” (Seuil, 2015 with P. Servigne) where the term ‘collapsology’ was first introduced, and „Another End of the World is Possible” (Seuil, 2018, with P. Servigne and G. Chapelle). With a degree in Eco-Counselling and an MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College, he bridges theory and practice through public lectures, workshops, and socio-ecological activism through curated exhibitions in cultural venues. His research combines complexity thinking and post-normal science to explore regenerative futures beyond collapse.
Ginie Servant-Miklos – Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ginie Servant-Miklos is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experiencein education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural. Her research and education work focuses on developing innovative pedagogies for societal impact. She developed the Experimental Pedagogics educational design framework, co-founded the Bildung Climate School with Prof. Rutger Engels, and is the author of Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It. She is a Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network for educational innovators, and the chair and founder of the FairFight Foundation, a women’s empowerment charity.
Ugo Bardi – Professor Emeritus at the University of Florence
Ugo Bardi is a former lecturer in physical chemistry at the University of Firenze, Italy. He is now active as a full member of the executive committee of the Club of Rome, a fellow of the World Academy for Art and Sciences and the Italian Society of System Dynamics Executive Committee. His research is dedicated to ecosystemic trends, climate change, resource depletion, energy circulation, and system dynamics modelling. His most recent book is „Exterminations – Preparing for the Unthinkable” (2024) and he is working at a new book titled „The End of Overpopulation”. He writes on his blogs „The Seneca Effect” and „The Living Earth”, where he examines the collapse of complex systems and the current modifications of the ecosystem created by human activity.
Derrick Jensen – Eco-philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Deep Green Resistance Movement
Derrick Jensen is an American writer and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition, though he rejects the label „anarchist”. Utne Reader named Jensen among „50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World”, and he has been called „the poet-philosopher of the ecology movement”. Jensen is the author of more than twenty books including Endgame Vols. 1 & 2, The Culture of Make Believe, The Myth of Human Supremacy, and more. He is the co-author of Bright Green Lies and Deep Green Resistance. He holds a degree in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, a degree in mineral engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines and has taught at Eastern Washington University. He is coming to Budapest as part of his 2025 European tour.
Kornélia Radics – Director of the Regional Office for Europe at the World Meteorological Organization
Kornélia Radics joined the WMO as Director of the Regional Office for Europe in 2023. Between 2013-2022 she was the President of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, and she served as the Permanent Representative of Hungary with WMO, EUMETSAT and ECMWF. She was also the President of WMO Regional Association VI and the Chair of the Aviation Advisory Committee of EUMETNET. Under her leadership the Hungarian Meteorological Service undertook an extensive modernization process and implemented free and open meteorological data policy. With 30 years of experience in operational and applied meteorology, climate change and multilateral diplomacy she brings a wealth of knowledge. She holds MSc in Meteorology, MSc in Astronomy, and PhD in Earth Sciences.
Péter Buda – Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Peter Buda is a former senior counter-intelligence officer with an academic background in applied history, intelligence studies, international relations, and religious studies. He has been studying the relationship between the collapse of civilisation and national security for some two decades. His intelligence studies have included research on different scenarios of US grand strategy and the impact of these scenarios on the security implications of climate change. In particular, he is interested in the human drivers of security issues, i.e., the mental dimensions (bias, miscalculation, panic, etc.) that may contribute to the escalation of pre-existing challenges and the inaccuracy of our predictions of malfunctions of our complex adaptive systems.
Ferenc Jordán – Researcher at the Institute for Biological Research in Cluj-Napoca
Ferenc Jordán is biologist focusing on systems ecology. By ecological network analysis he studies the food webs of multi-species ecological communities, marine overfishing, habitat connectivity and animal social networks. He is involved in highly multidisciplinary activities with various scientists and artists. He was Branco Weiss Fellow of the Society in Science foundation in Zürich, Switzerland, Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in Germany and Principal Investigator at University of Parma in Italy. Currently he leads his research group in Cluj-Napoca, and he is external associate at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. Increasingly involved in science communication, he is highly interested in the future of our species on this planet.
András Gelencsér – Rector Emeritus of the University of Pannonia
András Gelencsér is an air chemist, professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, former rector of the University of Pannonia, and internationally renowned researcher on the links between air pollution and climate change. His main research interests are atmospheric chemistry related to air pollution and climate change, in particular atmospheric aerosol chemistry. He was the first to identify the process of humus formation in the atmosphere. His article with the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry has become one of the most cited publications in the field. He published a monograph on carbonic aerosol in the Dutch Springer. To date, more than 4200 independent references have been made to his scientific papers.
Szilvia Gyurkó – Founder and Director of On A Rocking Horse Child Rights Foundation
Szilvia Gyurkó is a freelance child rights consultant and researcher based in Hungary. She develops and implements training and research projects in several European countries and publishes articles on child rights in online and print media. Between 2012-2014 she worked as the Director of the Hungarian Committee for the Rights of the Child at UNICEF. She then worked as a consultant for the Eastern Europe regional office of the Swiss-based international children’s relief organisation Terre des Hommes. She currently heads the On A Rocking Horse Child Rights Foundation-ECPAT Hungary, which develops programmes on children’s rights, child participation and child protection. She is also a doctoral student in social innovation design at the MOME Doctoral School.
Zoltán Pogátsa – Associate Professor at the University of West Hungary
Zoltán Pogátsa is an economist, sociologist and expert in international political economy. Associate professor at the University of West Hungary, lecturer at the Central European University, ELTE and the University of Verona and Between 2005 and 2015 he was a member of the Regional Competitiveness Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2013, he was awarded a Greek State Scholarship to study the Greek crisis in Athens, and has published a book summarising the results of his work. He lectures on topics such as the economics of European integration, international political economy, the economics of Central Europe, EU policies. His research interests include European integration, with a special focus on peripheral countries.
Csaba Kőrösi – President of the United Nations General Assembly
Csaba Kőrösi joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983 and served in various countries, including Greece, Israel and Libya. He was also the Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations and served as vice-president of the General Assembly from 2011 to 2012. He was Deputy State Secretary responsible for security policy, multilateral diplomacy and human rights before being appointed Director of Environmental Sustainability in the Office of the President of Hungary. From 2022 to 2023 he served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 77th session. He is a recipient of the Hungarian Order of Merit. He was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Greek Order of the Phoenix.
János Zlinszky – Associate Professor at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University
János Zlinszky is Senior Advisor at the Institute for the Integrity of Creation, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, and emeritus associate professor in sustainability science, environmental policy and water diplomacy with PPKE and NKE. He serves on the advisory Boards of the Equilibrium Institute, and the Ludovica College (both in Budapest). During the development of the Sustainable Development Goals, he served as senior scientific adviser for the Co-Chair of the UN Open Working Group. His earlier positions include European Parliament Delegate Member of the Board and the Bureau of the European Environment Agency (EEA); Head of Department for Strategy and Research in the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations, Hungary.
Alexandra Köves – Associate Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest
She is an ecological economist, associate professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, head of the Research Centre for Ecological Economics at the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies. In her teaching and research, she focuses on topics related to ecological economics, Degrowth and decision sciences, seeking opportunities to create a radically different, ecologically sustainable and socially just economy. She tries to popularize this research field to a wider audience. She hosts a Hungarian podcast called „Zöld Egyenlőség” with now more than 160 episodes, and is also the founder and co-host of the English-language podcast Economics for Rebels. She is also vice-president of the European Society for Ecological Economics.
András Gelencsér – Rector of the University of Pannonia
András Gelencsér is an air chemist, professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, rector of the University of Pannonia, and internationally renowned researcher on the links between air pollution and climate change. His main research interests are atmospheric chemistry related to air pollution and climate change, in particular atmospheric aerosol chemistry. He was the first to identify the process of humus formation in the atmosphere. His article with the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry has become one of the most cited publications in the field. He published a monograph on carbonic aerosol in the Dutch Springer. To date, more than 4200 independent references have been made to his scientific papers.
David Korowicz – Director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative
For nearly 20 years David has worked as an analyst and consultant on human systems ecology, emerging large-scale systemic risk, and societal response strategies. Areas of research included societal vulnerability, de-stabilisation and collapse dynamics, integrated global risk, and preparedness and planning. As a consultant he’s worked on a range of projects including the socio-economic impacts of severe pandemics, and exercise/ simulation/ process design to investigate catastrophes and preparedness. As director of Risk and Response at the Geneva Global Initiative he explored with senior political, contingency, military and other officials from a range of countries their capacity to address mounting global challenges including catastrophic irreversible disruption. David is a physicist by training.
Simon Michaux – Associate Professor at the Geological Survey of Finland
As an Associate Professor of geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) in KTR, the Circular Economy Solutions Unit, he holds a Basic degree in Bach App. Sc in Physics and Geology and a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from JKMRC University of Queensland. With 18 years of work experience in the Australian mining industry focusing on research and development, 12 months in the private sector at Ausenco, and 3 years in Belgium at the University of Liege researching Circular Economy and industrial recycling, he brings a wealth of knowledge. His long-term objectives involve the transformation of the Circular Economy into a more practical system for the industrial ecosystem, addressing the twin challenges of technology mineral scarcity and the transition away from fossil fuels.
Jem Bendell – Professor Emeritus at the University of Cumbria
Before the summer of 2023, he held the position of a full Professor of Sustainability Leadership and served as the Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. Additionally, he was the Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-Founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. A significant transformation in his career commenced in 2017 as he took a year out to study the latest climate science and released the Deep Adaptation paper, which gained widespread attention. His latest book, „Breaking Together,” was published in 2023 and provides a comprehensive approach to the systemic challenges humanity faces in the upcoming years.
