Mathias is employed at NORCE and admitted to the PhD programme via the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities.

He is currently working within the H2020-EU funded CONFER project.

CONFER is a research project focusing on climate adaptation through co-production of Climate Services in East Africa. Our main objective is to co-develop dedicated climate services for the water, energy and food security sectors with stakeholders and end-users, to enhance their ability to plan for and adapt to seasonal climate fluctuations. 

• Read more about Mathias' role in CONFER here

Conference paper: Imaginaries of climate services: the Global Framework for Climate Services and institutional power in climate service governance. Workshop 19: Co-production of techno-scientific promises: communities, institutions, and materialities. NESS2024 (The 16th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference), 05.06.2024

Research report

• Jesse Benjamin Schrage; Mathias Venning; James Wintrup et al. (2025). Institutional mapping of the climate service value chain for agriculture in Ethiopia. (external link)
• Jesse Benjamin Schrage; Mathias Venning; James Wintrup (2025). Mapping the institutional landscape of climate service demand, development and delivery for agriculture in Malawi. (external link)

Academic article

• Mathias Venning; Neha Mittal; Scott Bremer et al. (2025). Mapping the Demand, Development, and Delivery of Climate Services in the Greater Horn of Africa. (external link)
• Mathias Venning; Bizuneh Bushaka (2024). Co-ordinating agricultural adaptation: Seasonal forecasts and their influence on rural agricultural rhythms in Ethiopia. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Mathias Venning (2025). Enacting a Global Vision for Climate Services : Institutional discordance in the climate services usability gap in East Africa. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Mathias Venning (2024). Forecasting Seasons: Using seasonal forecasts to decide agricultural rhythms in East Africa. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

• The CONFER project:

CONFER is a research project focusing on climate adaptation through co-production of Climate Services in East Africa. Our main objective is to co-develop dedicated climate services for the water, energy and food security sectors with stakeholders and end-users, to enhance their ability to plan for and adapt to seasonal climate fluctuations.