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This workshop explores the paradoxes of bureaucracy and its uneasy alliance with democracy. Bureaucracy promises fairness, clarity, and equal treatment - yet often delivers rigidity, alienation, and a loss of responsibility. What starts as a safeguard of justice becomes a labyrinth of forms in which no one decides and no one can be held accountable.

Application Deadline: 11 November 2025
Date: 18 November - 23 December 2025

Der Workshop eröffnet eine fachübergreifende Reflexion darüber, was Krieg und Frieden bedeuten, wie Forschung und Lehre dazu beitragen und welche Rolle Wissenschaftsfreiheit dabei spielt. Die Teilnehmenden gehen der Frage nach, ob Forschung und Lehre tatsächlich Wege zum Frieden eröffnen – und wenn ja, auf welche Weise. Oder ob sie eher Strukturen stabilisieren, die Gewalt, Unterdrückung, Ungleichheit und Krieg begünstigen. Welche Verantwortung tragen die einzelnen Disziplinen, welche die Universität als Ganzes? Und wie verändern sich Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Gehorsam und Widerstand, wenn es nicht nur um abstrakte Erkenntnis, sondern um die Bedingungen des Friedens geht?

Anmeldefrist: 15. November 2025
Datum: 12. - 16. Januar 2026

Fribourg: jeudis 22 janvier, 29 janvier, 5 février et 19 février 2026, de 14h00 à 17h00

Lausanne: jeudis 12 mars, 19 mars, 26 mars et 2 avril 2026, de 14h00 à 17h00

Cette formation de quatre demi-journées a pour visée d'offrir un espace de rencontre pour explorer collectivement les enjeux temporels inhérents aux processus de la transition écologique, à partir de l'expérience personnelle et/ou professionnelle des participant.e.s. Elle invite les participant.e.s à une réflexion sur les temporalités de la crise climatique, et sur les rythmes des transformations qu’elle induit, afin que chacun.e puisse développer son pouvoir d’agir et dégager des pistes d’action qui soient à la fois stratégiques, équitables et porteuses de sens.

Toute personne engagée activement dans la conduite de processus de transition, ou intéressée par les enjeux d’accompagnement et de formation associés aux processus de transition socio-environnementaux peut s'inscrire.

L'inscription est gratuite dans la limite des places disponibles (max. 15 participants par atelier). 

January 23, February 20, March 20, April 24, May 22, June 19, 2026,

4:00pm – 5:00pm CET, online

Following the interest generated by the first season of the Tea Time Talks (TTT), the Temporalities, Rhythms & Complexity Lab welcomes again all those - students, researchers or professionals - who are looking for an informal and yet stimulating virtual space to exchange or explore new ideas, start conversations, and develop new or unexpected connections.

TTT offer a playground for intellectual exploration, and a favorable environment for testing concepts, exchanging points of view and refining our thinking. These conversations (in English) revolve around the TRC Lab's research themes (time, space, rhythm, complexity, rhythmic intelligence, rhythmanalysis) and the themes that ground the work conducted at the Sunkhronos Institute (transformation, transition, emancipatory education, critical pedagogy, life history, experiential learning).

Current global sustainability challenges are increasingly complex. Truly understanding what’s at stake requires knowledge on systemic interactions and on competing claims by different actors. Science has a major role to play in informing negotiations and solutions to guide the societal transformations. 
The Online International Winter School on Sustainable Development for Bachelor’s and Master’s Students kicks off on 2 December 2025 with preparatory tasks and activities. The main programme will take place from 26 to 31 January 2026. Apply anytime until 15 October 2025. 

We warmly invite you to participate in our workshop on Power and Transformative Change in ITD research, hosted by the SNSF project Translating Transformations & co-organized with td-net.

In this project, we draw on critical social theory to develop practical tools that help make hidden power dynamics more visible—so that meaningful transformation in collaborative research and practice can take place.

During the workshop, participants will be introduced to three newly developed tools designed to support transformative change and transformative learning in inter-/transdisciplinary (ITD) collaborations and their outcomes.

Date: 06 February 2026
Registration Deadline: 26 January 2026

Experience democracy in practice, reflect on it and transfer it
to your own academic teaching and research.
Away from authoritarian teaching and towards joint learning.

The workshop is primarily designed for lecturers, tutors and colleagues working in higher-education didactics. A small number of spots are also reserved for people who are active in educational work outside the university, as the exchange across different educational contexts enriches the workshop and broadens the perspectives we bring into higher education.

Application deadline: 21 December 2025

We – the Art of Hosting community – see collective intelligence and participatory methodologies to give it life as a creative way forward.  
 
Join us to learn, experiment and practice during the “Art of Participatory Leadership” training, near Geneva, on March 18-21st 2026!
 
We’ll explore 
- how to navigate, individually and collectively, through constantly evolving and quite unpredictable conditions in the world around us
- how to increase engagement of colleagues and stakeholders across disciplines, departments and organisations
- how to make the professional environment and the ways of working richer and more productive. 
 
Experiment with methods and approaches and live the ethos for ensuring your meetings and collaborative processes matter.

New LeadCampus training and continuing education offers on integrative leadership (12.6.2026), knowledge integration (03.07.2026) and researchers’ roles in inter- and transdisciplinary projects (on demand) offered by the Inter- and Transdisciplinary (ITD) Research Group at Eawag in close collaboration with WSL and TdLab (ETHZ).

Research for whom? Whose knowledge counts? How can we make research practices more inclusive? And how can Citizen Science contribute to solving societal challenges? 

We are back with the 5th edition of our Citizen Science School series! This summer school focuses on the topic “Co-Creating Knowledge: Transforming Research Through Citizen Science”. Are you interested in Citizen Science and its participatory approaches? Are you a Master’s student, doctoral candidate, postdoc, or practitioner aiming to develop a Citizen Science project idea? Or are you already planning or implementing a project? This program will give you the tools and methods to take your Citizen Science journey further.

Application Deadline: 15 February 2206