BEYOND 2030 - TRAJECTORIES & PRIORITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
With its overarching theme – BEYOND 2030 – TRAJECTORIES & PRIORITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE – the 11th Potsdam Summer School will continue the transdisciplinary and interactive series of events that has been held annually in Potsdam, Germany since 2014. We shall examine all three intertwined dimensions for Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability.
Climate change, resource depletion, habitat destruction, and pollution lead to poverty, intensify geopolitical conflicts, and are forcing migration. All three dimensions require collective action from individuals, communities, businesses, governments, and science.
The aim of the Potsdam Summer School is to bring together talented early-career scientists and young professionals operating in the private sector, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organisations from many different parts of the world to discuss frontier (research) questions on future sustainable development.
All participants of the Potsdam Summer School will be engaged in discussions and will be provided with tools to develop effective strategies to solve the challenges they face in their daily work.
Effective communication of scientific findings and results is an integral part of all research. Working groups will be formed across the topics of the summer school to deal with formats of science communication. The working groups will provide participants with the opportunity to improve their skills in science communication.
We also intend to enable participants to engage with various sectors of the public in their home countries. Our goal is to improve science awareness and help to develop informed opinions and enhance the transferable skills of researchers and practitioners. Experts, stakeholders, and guest lecturers from high level national and international institutes and organisations will contribute knowledge and insights to the Summer School programme which will comprise lectures, various discussion formats, and interactive group work activities.
By invitation only.
