The project will organize a workshop as means for capacity building of early-career researchers from the Asia-Pacific region and Central and Eastern Europe to discuss the issue of scale in earth system governance with an emphasis on research challenges and analytical problems related to scale and local case studies. The workshop will also serve as an important networking opportunity and platform to initiate and combine momentum for new research. The main outcomes of this project will be: increasing understanding of early-career researchers of issues of scale as analytical problem of governance for sustainable development, in particular in relation to local level case studies; bringing together a community of researchers working on governance for sustainable development and environmental management in general to jointly learn, stimulate dialogue and initiate new research endeavours; linking existing networks of early-career governance researchers in the Asia- Pacific region with such in central and Eastern Europe, thereby also highlighting Russia as host country that part of both regions; contributing to the crosscutting theme of Scale within the research framework of the Earth System Governance Project.