Pathways Autumn School: Towards Sustainable and Just Futures: Concepts, Challenges, and Practices

Application deadline: 12 May 2025, Event dates: 13-17 October 2025

Join like-minded researchers for a rich 5-day programme in the beautiful French Alps:

“Humanity is facing multiple interlinked environmental, social, and political crises, including anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss, continued structural injustices, geopolitical threats, armed conflicts, and the rise of populism, all of them with devastating effects for the planet and human wellbeing. Attempting to resolve these complex sustainability challenges requires transformative changes that are ‘fundamental, system-wide shifts in views, structures and practices’ (IPBES, 2025)”

“The School allows participants to critically explore and learn both the what and the how of conducting transformative research. What are the main concepts and frameworks mobilised in sustainability science? What does it mean to design and develop research that advances the understanding of complex socio-ecological systems and actively contributes to their transformation? How can researchers adapt or respond to fast moving technological and geopolitical shifts, which challenge the role of experts in societies?”