Trinational Summer School from 25th to 29th of September

The trinational summer school offered 20 PhD and master students from various disciplines, in the framework of Eucor Universities, the opportunity to learn interactively about innovative formats and methods of transdisciplinary research.

The sustainable transformation of our society does not only require the production of knowledge and the development of scientific solutions. In order to implement scientific findings successfully, it is necessary to deal with the social framework conditions. This requires close cooperation between science and society. The subject of transdisciplinary research is to design and structure this cooperation in a scientific and practice-oriented way.

During the summer school, the students discovered and tried out different transdisciplinary formats and methods based on a case study on climate adaptation of the city of Emmendingen (north of Freiburg, Germany). As the trinational Upper Rhine region is particularly affected by heat and as even higher temperatures and more frequent and longer heat periods are expected in the future, cities and municipalities are called upon to quickly develop adaptation strategies and measures. The PhD students tackled these issues concretely and in direct cooperation with the City of Emmendingen.

For more information see here.