The XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) was held on July 14-20, 2023, in Rome, Italy, with over 3,000 attendees from all over the world, and it is the largest event for worldwide quaternary research every four years.

The Association for Trans-Eurasia Exchange and Silk Road Civilization Development (ATES), in collaboration with the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO), the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment, and Resources (TPESER), organized a one-week exhibition at this congress to promote international cooperation on earth system science and interdisciplinary studies.

ATES' vision and scientific issues aroused wide interest of visitors, particularly those from the Silk Road regions of South Asia and Europe, in the fields of paleoclimate changes across Eurasia, environmental archaeology, and the interaction between environmental changes and human civilizations. During the exhibition, ATES drew a large number of specialists and young scholars to come and consult. Prof. CHEN Fahu of ATES Chair, Prof. HOU Juzhi and Prof. Ailikun from the ATES Secretariat thoroughly explained and communicated with the visitors, welcoming individual scientists and research institutes from all over the world who share the same interest with ATES in carrying out more in-depth scientific exchanges and developing intensive cooperation in the future.

About INQUA

The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) was founded in Denmark in 1928, and currently more than 5000 scientists from 50 countries have joined the INQUA union. INQUA's goal is to further enhance international exchange and cooperation through fundamental and applied quaternary research, to promote interdisciplinary research in quaternary research at the frontiers of geosciences, and to make substantial contributions to the assessment of global environmental change during the recent geological period. The INQUA Congress is the most important and largest scientific conference for worldwide quaternary researchers to communicate and cooperate with each other, and it is held every four years.

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