It offers a programme of keynotes and small group activities to encourage discussion, collective reflection, interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among all participants: speakers, organizers and early career researchers.

Main topics include:

• How can historical perspectives contribute to understanding the present and exploring possible futures?
• How can positive narratives or utopia enable actions?
• How can integrated research on biophysical and social conditions help identify leverage points towards a more sustainable future?
• What role does, should, could and can research play in opening up the space for more pluralistic and radical visions for sustainability?
• How to steer and engage in transdisciplinary projects?

We invite doctoral researchers and researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 10 years (excluding periods of parental leave) who are living and working in Europe to apply. We aim at assembling a group of early career researchers from across Europe with a variety of backgrounds in terms of disciplines, approaches, visions, themes, and research practices, who share the wish to reflect and act on how research can better contribute to societal transformations. As a prerequisite for participation, participants need to be pursuing research related to the autumn school’s core themes and questions. Additionally, participants are expected to have sufficient proficiency in English to be able to actively participate in the autumn school.

Application deadline is the 31st of May. 

For more information and to send in an application, click here.