A challenge-based approach
The Arqus Winter School is the beginning of a unique educational journey. It will engage you as students in thinking about what it means to be a European Citizen, and how this citizenship is being galvanized around societal challenges. It is a challenge-based approach to educating critically engaged European citizens, and it is being run in parallel at all seven Arqus universities this semester.
Traditionally, concepts of citizenship have been connected to notions of territory and statehood and the implicit or explicit rights and responsibilities of people who live there. European citizenship necessitates reimagining this concept, moving away from concrete geographical boundaries and toward more abstract ideas and ideals suchas peace, prosperity and equality.
Contemporary universities have the power to make substantive contributions to discourses and models of active, engaged citizenship by developing interdisciplinary, challenge-based and student-led pedagogies that empower students to critically reframe, reflect upon and address the challenges we face today.
Key Principles
Engaged European citizenship
Challenge-based research
Transdisciplinarity
Student-led
The Winter School
The winter school brings together six students from each of the seven Arqus universities. It aims to invest these students with interdisciplinary research ideas, skills and resources to enable them to develop group research projects on climate risk in each Arqus city. At some universities the six winter school participants might be the only ones taking this course, while at others the six students might be part of a larger class, and they will need to form research groups and relate their experiences to others in their class.
Participating in the school ensures students develop working knowledge of: Climate impacts, risks and vulnerability; from the city up to the European scale. What climate risks mean for engaged European citizenship. Conducting transdisciplinary research.
Rethinking climate risk and science
9:00 - 12:00 - Open plenary session. Link to connect
Framing the winter school: studying sustainability and citizenship in an uncertain world
Jakob Grandin, University of Bergen
European citizenship, environmental challenges and populist discourse in perspective
Pietro De Perini, University of Padua
Short break
Transdisciplinary ways of studying climate risks
Scott Bremer, University of Bergen & Silke Beck, Leipzig University
Moderated discussion
Brief intro to the workshop
12:00 - 12:30
Break
12:30 -
Workshop: Creatively introducing cities and its climate risks
Lunch
Continue workshop exercise
Mapping the natural causes of climate risk
9:00 - 11:00 - Open plenary session. Link to connect
High Risks from Climate Change
Douglas Maraun, University of Graz
The impact of climate change on the risk of flooding
Andrea D’Alpaos, University of Padua
Short break
Climate change and habitat shifts. Who are the winners?
Alius Ulevičius, Vilnius University
Global warming in the coastal strip: from the origin to the impact mitigation interventions assessment of scenarios
Miguel Ortega Sánchez, University of Granada
Moderated discussion
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:30
Workshop: Interpreting maps of climate risks.
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 14:30
Workshop session 2
15:00 - 16:00
Plenary discussion
Making connections: climate risk and social transformation
9:00 - 11:00 - Open plenary session. Link to connect
How climate risks emerge from connections between natural and social worlds
Scott Bremer, University of Bergen & Silke Beck, Leipzig University
Individualisation of risk and implications for future climate risks
Christian Kuhlicke, Leipzig University
Short break
Challenging Chronos to Face Climate Change
Sacha Loeve and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Université de Lyon
Moderated discussion
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:30
Workshop: Systems mapping of the processes combining in ‘creating climate risks’
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 14:15
Workshop session 2
14:30 - 16:00
Communication and dissemination workshop
Scenarios of responding to climate risk
9:00 - 11:00 - Open plenary session. Link to connect
Disruptive, top-down policy mixes for rapid decarbonization
Alfred Posch, University of Graz
Bottom-up grassroots initiatives for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Ilona Otto, University of Graz
Short break
Governing climate risk
Stina E. Oseland, climate director, Bergen Municipality | European Environmental Agency | Alfred Posch/Ilona Otto, University of Graz
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:30
Workshop: Plotting future scenarios of climate risks at a European scale
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 14:15
Workshop session 2
15:00 - 16:00
Plenary discussion
Climate risk and European Citizenship
9:00 - 11:00 - Open plenary session. Link to connect
Changing conceptions of citizenship and collective identity in the context of climate change
Pawel Karolewski, Leipzig University
Shooting for the stars: keys to enhancing citizenship to mitigate climate risks
Ozana Olariu, University of Granada
Short break
The law of climate change and public/citizen participation
Isabelle Michallet, Université de Lyon
How Fairness Considerations are Relevant for Effort-Sharing in Responding
Lukas Meyer, University of Graz
Moderated discussion
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 12:00
Workshop: Individual reflection
12:00 - 12:45
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Workshop session 2: Engaging with climate risk – principles of European citizenship under climate risk
14:30 - 15:30
Ending of the winter school
Speakers
Jakob Olof Grandin
Pietro de Perini
Scott Bremer
Silke Beck
Douglas Maraun
Andrea D’Alpaos
Alius Ulevičius
Miguel Ortega
Christian Kuhlicke
Sacha Loeve
Bernadette Bensaude
Alfred Posch
Ilona M. Otto
Stina E. Oseland
Pawel Karolewski
Ozana Olariu
Isabelle Michallet
Lukas Meyer
Learn more about the Arqus Collaboratory Programme
is courtesy of Reto Stockli and Robert Simmon, Earth Observatory. Nasa.