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Spring Semester 2025

CAS ETH in Climate Innovation

ETH Zurich

If you wish to 1) meet experts and get up-to-speed with the foundations of Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Finance, Climate Risks, Climate Communication, Role of Policy, Biodiversity, Transition Management and Leading the Change; 2) dialogue with practitioners; and 3) enter a network of like-minded individuals working collectively to support the transition towards net zero emissions, this “Science into Practice” programme is for you.

Working with real-world case studies, the Climate Innovation programme empowers climate leaders with the necessary skills and knowledge to support and lead the transition towards net zero emissions. The programme is aimed at professionals (3 years +) from business, industry, the public sector and non-governmental organization who deal with complex problems related to climate change.

Application Period: 01.09.24 - 30.11.24

Dates:
Introductory Online Programme (1 Day): February 2025
Module 1 (Climate Crisis, Transformations & Climate Justice): 14 & 15 March 2025
Module 2 (Leadership & Methodologies): 28 & 29 March
Module 3 (Transition Management & Leading the Change): 11 & 12 April
Module 4 (Risks & Finance): 9 & 10 May
Module 5 (Role of Policy & Problem Statement): 23 & 24 May
Module 6 (Biodiversity & Excursion): 6 & 7 June
Immersive Block Course: 23-28 June

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04.05.25 - 22.06.25

Project Managment Training Courses

Institute for Peace and Dialoge

Course Objective This project management course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation in project management principles and best practices. By the end of this course, participants will:

• Gain a deep understanding of the project management landscape, including essential domains and tasks.

• Develop practical skills necessary to manage projects effectively across various industries.

• Enhance confidence through hands-on simulations and practical scenarios.

• Be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to excel as a project management professional.

- I Session: Sunday, 4 May - Sunday, 11 May, 2025 

- II Session: Sunday, 1 June - Sunday, 8 June, 2025 

- III Session: Sunday, 15 June - Sunday, 22 June, 2025

Each Session has same 5 days course topics. Applicants need to select one of the Session for participation.

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07.05.2025

CSCCE Mini-workshop: Giving and receiving feedback

Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement

Do you tend to take professional feedback personally? Is it uncomfortable for you to give feedback to your team? Whether you’re in a supervisory role, or on the receiving end of feedback as a content creator, student, or postdoc, feedback can be a tricky (but necessary) part of your career. 

In CSCCE’s upcoming Mini-workshop, Giving and receiving feedback, we discuss the human side of feedback, from the perspective of both giver and receiver (including triggers, common reactions, and how to deliver feedback effectively), and dive into the three different types of feedback (as described by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone): appreciative, coaching, and evaluative.

If you find it hard to receive feedback on your work, or you’re a leader looking to give feedback in a more constructive way, we hope you’ll join us!

Date: 07 May 2025
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08.05.2025

Webinar “Tourism, Life Quality & Municipalities”

Alpine Town of the Year

Places to Live, Places to Visit: How Municipalities Combine Quality of Life and Tourism

What do municipalities need to ensure a good life for their residents – while also being welcoming to guests? How can everyday life for locals be harmonized with an appeal to visitors? And how can tourism be embraced and appreciated by the local population? These questions are in the focus of the fourth webinar hosted by Allianz in den Alpen and Alpine Town of the Year on 8 May 2025.

Fresh Ideas for Livable Destinations

Forward-thinking municipalities and tourism associations go beyond traditional administrative tasks. They create opportunities for participation, support authentic local projects, invest in inclusive dialogue, and develop sustainable tourism concepts that respect both people and nature. Across the Alps, innovative solutions are emerging that benefit residents and guests alike – shaping a future that is vibrant and worth living in.

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08.05./15.05./23.05./12.06.25

Anstehende Webinare des Open Innovation in Science Centers

Open Innovation in Science Center

Entdecken Sie mit uns neue Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Kunst und Innovation! In drei spannenden Webinaren des LBG Open Innovation in Science Centers beleuchten wir kreative Methoden in Forschung und Care, zeigen, wie künstlerische Prozesse Impact sichtbar machen, und vermitteln praxisnahes Wissen zu Health Design Thinking. Jetzt anmelden und gemeinsam neue Wege gehen!

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Die einzelnen Webinare:

• 08. Mai: Gemeinsam Forschen: Von Einbindung zur Co-Creation https://ois.lbg.ac.at/events/gemeinsam-forschen-2/

• 15. Mai: Arts&Science Collaborations – Wie Kunst und Wissenschaft einander bereichern können https://ois.lbg.ac.at/events/arts-and-science/

• 23. Mai: Impact, Kreativität & Care – Wie können kunstbasierte und kreative Methoden den Impact von transdisziplinären Care-Projekten erfassen? https://ois.lbg.ac.at/events/impact-kreativitaet-care/

• 12. Juni: Health Design Thinking – Vom Gesundheitsproblem zum innovativen Lösungsansatz https://ois.lbg.ac.at/events/health-design-thinking/

27.05.25

Peer-coaching Workshop on the ‘sticky-bits’ (i.e. difficult moments) in transdisciplinary research collaborations. 

Enjust - Working Group on Environmental Jusitce in Transdisciplinary Contexts

Our 'sticky-bits' kick-off event at the Enjust conference in Hamburg confirmed a strong interest among colleagues for a safe sharing and learning format on transdisciplinary practice. 

As a follow-up, our first online session will take place on 27th May, 3-5 pm CET on Zoom.

 In line with transdisciplinary ethics, we believe that everyone can bring experience or thoughtfulness to the table. So the session is aimed at academic and non-academic participants who would like to present their issues with a particular collaboration, or contribute to discussing other participants’ tricky situations, conflicts, moments of doubt, etc. in transdisciplinary projects. We will practice active listening and peer-coaching in a confidential setting.

Outline of 2-hours sessions roughly as follows:

• Mutual introductions, concept on safe space ethics + definitions of transdisciplinary work

• 45-60 minutes for developing and peer-coaching the case study (break-out sessions possible)

• A general discussion at the end for take-aways and outlook.

The session is limited to 20 participants. For better planning, please let us know via email if you’d like to participate. Please also tell us whether you wish to present your own case and to have it discussed by the group (optional!).

We envisage two more sessions to follow in the autumn on 9th September and 4th November. 

If you are interested in the peer-coaching sessions but cannot make it on the 27th May, feel free to express your general interest through this short survey. It will help us discern availabilities and needs within the group, to pre-match cases with recurrent themes, your time zones for coordinating sessions, and whether you’d want to take on an active role. e.g. coaching or presenting a case. Taking on active roles is optional - there is no obligation to coach or to receive feedback on your case.

Date: 27 May 2025
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16 - 20.06.25

GIS and spatial analysis in interdisciplinary research

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Were you ever thinking it would be useful to create compelling maps and visuals to present your data and analysis results to a broader audience more effectively? Were you ever hoping to be able to extend your statistical analysis of demographic and epidemiological data through means of geospatial analytics? How much would you learn from studying spatial distributions and spatial patterns of mortality and how these relate to environmental conditions and population characteristics?

This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to tackle these and many other tasks. It is designed as an introductory class to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) suitable for graduate and postgraduate students with interest in research ranging from social to environmental sciences as well as interdisciplinary settings including demography, epidemiology and data science. Students will learn about GIS tools and their underlying principles and how to apply GIS to analytical and mapping-related tasks.

The course will introduce basic theoretical and practical elements of GIS and the geospatial sciences that are important to get started on an independent GIS project, handling and managing geospatial data, creating maps and conducting GIS-based analysis. Students will work in QGIS software on tasks typically encountered in their research or in GIS-related work generally. The concepts discussed during lectures will be directly put into practice to better understand underlying mechanics, results, problems and important implications resulting from decisions made based on such results.

Date: 16 - 20 June 2025
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

16.-17.06.24

SSH Energy 2025 - Futuring inter- and transdisciplinary energy research, for whom, by whom?

ETH Zurich

How does our research integrate divergent practices and worldviews, who do we involve and why, and what guides our energy research? The 5th Swiss Social Sciences and Humanities Energy Research Workshop (SSH Energy 2025) seeks to learn from SSH energy initiatives with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches into energy transitions. Join us to explore how you can integrate diverse practices and perspectives into your energy research.

This annual workshop is organised within the project "Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society" (SWEET programme).

Date: 16 - 17 June 2025

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25.06.25

Online-Webinar: Vorstellung Reallabor-Mapping im Kontext Bauen & Wohnen

Deutsches Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Bezahlbaren Wohnraum im urbanen Bestand zu schaffen, erfordert innovative Ansätze und praxisnahe Lösungen. Mit einer digitalen Landkarte zu Reallaboren und innovativen Praxisbeispielen stellt die acatech Plattform „Bauen & Wohnen“ gemeinsam mit dem Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in einem Online-Webinar ein neues Mapping-Tool vor. Neben der Vorstellung von laufenden und abgeschlossenen Projekten wird erklärt, welche Daten dahinter liegen, wie es genutzt werden kann und welche Relevanz es für die Schaffung von bezahlbarem Wohnraum haben kann.

Datum: 25. Juni 2025

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23. - 27.06.25

Nachhaltigkeit demokratisieren

Technische Universität Berlin

Bildungsurlaub/Blockwoche

Was zählt in deinem privaten und beruflichen Leben mehr - das Ergebnis oder der Prozess? Hast Du die Antwort schon und willst, dass andere sie einfach akzeptieren? Oder ziehst du es vor, endlos zu diskutieren, ohne ins Handeln zu kommen? - Wen beziehst Du in Entscheidungsprozesse ein und wen schließt du aus? Wann fühlst du dich selbst einbezogen/ausgeschlossen? - Worüber darfst du mitentscheiden und wo bleibst du außen vor? - Wie kannst Du im Privat- und Arbeitsleben für Demokratie und Nachhaltigkeit eintreten?

Der Kurs beruht vollständig auf der Interaktion der Teilnehmenden. Wir erkunden, was Demokratie bedeutet und wie sie zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen kann. Jeden Workshoptag werden wir zahlreiche Aktivitäten gemeinsam durchführen und reflektieren, so dass wir demokratisches Handeln in einem konkreten Kontext einüben und dieses Wissen in andere Kontexte übertragen. Durch diesen erfahrunsgbasierten Lehr-/Lernansatz erleben wir es unmittelbar, was es heißt, das eigene Privat- und Berufsleben zu demokratisieren und damit zu einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation beizutragen - auch wenn dies heißt, in Konflikte zu gehen und diese gemeinsam beizulegen oder manchmal auch mutig auszuhalten.

Datum: 23. bis 27. Juni 2025
Anmeldeschluss: 07. Mai

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01 - 10.07.25

ipd Summer academy

Institute for Peace and Dialogue

Institute for Peace and Dialogue (IPD) is proud to announce the International Summer Academy, which are to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Its image as one of the most favourable places for traveling has made it more interesting to offer an exited and comprehensive program for our participants. Nowadays unfortunately several frozen or ongoing conflicts between or within states still exist. Conflicts are different and if we look to the world mankind, how they are facing many new challenges, coupled with new dangerous situations, i.e. terrorist acts, non-legal arming of conflict sides, re-determination of borders, establishing new countries in the world map, non-providing territorial integrity, trafficking of arms, drugs and human; disputes on the implementation of transnational energy projects, democratization and false elections, revolution and internal political conflicts, armed guerrilla movements, violation and discrimination by nationalists, world economic crisis, climate change and unsafely biodiversity etc. Unfortunately, the list is long. Conflicts are related and an integral part of human beings, as conflicts cause violation of human rights. Existing conflicts weaken every kind of cooperation between nations, states and Institutions. Without lasting mutual cooperation and understanding, the future prosperity of the world would remain only as a good dream. Taking into consideration of peaceful behaviour and engagements, we can make a decision on the strict belief, that opportunities for solving all kind of conflicts are feasible.

Date 01 - 10 July 2025
Application Deadline: 05 June 2025
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14. - 17.07./ 11 -14.08.25

Introducing TAH Impact Academy Summer Courses 2025 in Prague

Charles University

Charles University, as a founding member of the TAH Centre, is pleased to introduce the TAH Impact Academy's inaugural summer courses. Taking place in Prague, these professional development opportunities bring together experts from technology, art, and humanities to create a genuine transdisciplinary learning environment. Students, faculty members and researchers are invited to participate in either "Art-Tech for Higher Education" (July 14-17) or "Future Tech & Social Justice" (August 11-14). Both courses are eligible for Erasmus+ funding, with applications closing May 31, 2025.

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18. - 22.08.25

Summer School: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Integration in Science, Policy and Practice

ETH Zurich

Description

Integration is an integral part of inter- and transdisciplinary research. It implies the co-production and synthesis towards a problem and its potential solutions. It is a fundamental process when collaborating across disciplines and thematic fields and working at the interface between science, policy and practice. Drawing on empirical cases students work in a hands-on experiential setting.

Expected learning outcomes
Meeting environmental and societal challenges requires responses that integrate a wide range of perspectives from different disciplines (i.e. interdisciplinary integration), as well as from science, policy and practice (i.e. transdisciplinary integration).

Integration, in this context, is an integral part of inter- and transdisciplinary research. It implies the co-production and synthesis of different knowledges, perspectives, insights, interests, expectations and collaborative approaches towards a problem and its potential solutions. It is a fundamental process in research when collaborating across scientific disciplines (e.g., natural and social sciences) and thematic fields (e.g., policy analysis) and working at the interface between science, policy and practice. The summer school offers a hands-on experiential setting together with empirical cases situated at that interface.

At the end of the summer school students are able to:

• Understand and analyse different theories, concepts, methods and tools of integration and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

• Apply methods and tools of integration to selected case studies and critically reflect on their potentials and limitations.

• Communicate and collaborate with others in different contexts and forms, bringing in own viewpoints, recognising others, and synthesising ideas.

Date: 18 - 22 August
Application Deadline: 01 May
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If you are an ETH student or not a member of the ENHANCE Alliance Universities, please see these link with further details: https://www.vorlesungen.ethz.ch/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/lerneinheit.view?semkez=2025S&lerneinheitId=192018&lang=en

15 - 16.09.25

Team Science Workshop

Team Science Consulting

With new discoveries and technologies over the past few decades, we have seen an exponential increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research.  Funding agencies have responded by shifting more and more resources into collaborative research.  The result has been more team science being done by both small and large teams, rather than individual researchers. Collaborations bring additional challenges, both to the researchers and to individuals managing projects, programs, and teams.  Whether you are a PI, a project/program manager or a research development professional, questions abound:  How do you shift culture and behavior while also effectively managing resources, people and ideas?  What are the first steps to creating an effective team where everyone is on the same page?  How do you manage those inevitable “itchy-scratchy” moments?  The goal of this workshop is to provide you with tools to put evidence-based Science of Team Science (SciTS) research into practice with your team(s).  This foundational knowledge will provide you with a variety of insights, skills, and resources you can take back to your team(s) and immediately put into practice.  (FYI - Advanced topic workshops coming in 2026) 

Date: 15 - 16 September 2025

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13 - 17.10.25

Pathways Autumn School 2025

Futureearth

The Pathways Autumn School creates a learning space for early-career researchers in sustainability science, as a space of connection among scientists from all disciplines who are working to understand sustainability challenges and actively contribute to societal transformations. The 2025 School will focus on the concepts, practices and challenges of a more transformative research agenda within sustainability science. 

The programme includes three main streams:

• Module 1 - Towards a shared glossary for interdisciplinary work in sustainability science

• Module 2 - Learning to engage with societal actors: a case study in the Alps

• Module 3 - Technological and geo-political dynamics: Key challenges for sustainability science

Taking place in Aussois, the French Alps, from 13-17 October, 2025, participants will reflect and engage, both personally and collectively through a shared living space and a 5-day programme consisting of interactive workshops, keynote sessions, outdoor activities and interdisciplinary exchange. 

Doctoral researchers and researchers who finished their PhD within the last 10 years (excluding periods of parental leave) who are living and working in Europe are invited to apply. Find further information and how to apply on the Pathways website and also on the 2025 School brochure. The call for applications is open until 12 May 2025 at midnight CEST.

27. - 31.10.25

Governance, Design and Delivery of Interdisciplinary Higher Education

Utrecht University

Utrecht University has adopted a comprehensive approach to broadening and deepening its interdisciplinary teaching & learning portfolio on all levels of education (bachelor’s, master’s, PhD and continuing education). We combine theory and experiments in the governance of interdisciplinary higher education (IHE) with educational development and teacher professionalization for IHE and with research of IHE. We provide this introduction via lectures, experiential learning and time for reflection. The aim is for participants to reflect on and improve interdisciplinary endeavors at their own institution by learning from the course’s lecturers and fellow participants.

This course has been designed for educational leaders and policy advisors in higher education and for designers of and teachers in interdisciplinary higher education.

Find out more online here.