2023 Summer School: Science-Policy Interfaces for environmental solutions

From climate change to biodiversity loss or plastic pollution, environmental crises have become more complex and intertwined, calling for active engagement between scientists and policy actors towards science-informed solutions.

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To achieve this, a great number of stakeholders need specific skills and capacities to navigate the science-policy interface related to environmental governance towards ecological transition. In this context, international Geneva is host to a rather unique ecosystem that creates opportunities for science to join the policy table and for policy to inform science on knowledge gaps, thus allowing to pair knowledge and action for the common good across a wide pool of expertise.

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This Geneva Summer School offers a unique opportunity for early career researchers, policy professionals and civil society actors to:

• Explore how science-policy interfaces work in practice in the environmental field
• Learn about strategies, practices, and skills required to span the boundary between science and policy and apply these to the context(s) of participants
• Get practical advice and experience from actors working at the science-policy interface
• Networking with experts and practitioners from the international Geneva ecosystem

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The speakers

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The course will include interactive sessions, conceptual and methodological lectures, round tables and practical activities. It will involve experts and practitioners working at the science-policy interface:

• Alexandre Hedjazi, Institute for Environmental Sciences, UNIGE
• Frédérique Guerin, Geneva Science-Policy Interface
• Jennifer Allan, University of Cardiff and IISD
• Silke Beck, Technical University of Munich and IPBES
• Michel Jarraud, World Meteorological Organization
• Julian Keimer, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
• Karin Ingold, University of Bern
• Melanie Paschke, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
• Mialy Rann, Geneva Science-Policy Interface
• Jose Romero, Formerly at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
• Martin Scheringer, Masaryk University and IPCP Board
• Matteo Tarantino, University of Geneva and University of Milan
• Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University and IPCC
• Agustin Harte, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
• Zhanyun Wang, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
• Charlotte Pavageau, BIOVISION
• Diana Rizzolio, Geneva Environment Network, UNEP
• David Jensen, Digital Transformation Task Force, UNEP

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The programme

Registration and more details are available here.