IDEA League Summer School 2021
Climate Change and University Campuses
University campuses potentially may have a high impact on climate change mitigation, as they accommodate various high educated and skilled communities, who are well organised through students’ organisations, research and administrative bodies, and workers' unions, among others. There is an increasing number of attempts to develop university-wide strategic plans and actions to combat climate change. Yet, a limited number of initiatives have been taken to mobilise university communities as active agents to mitigate climate change. This summer school facilitates an online interactive platform, the Climate Combat Lab (CCLab), which brings together students and academics to exchange and develop ideas on developing, testing and disseminating climate change mitigation strategies and action plans for university campuses.
The programme aims to:
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Identify the drivers of climate change on the university campuses
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Identify a range of effective practices addressing climate change mitigation
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Develop a climate change mitigation strategy operationalising a new participatory model for inclusive strategies and actions plans.
Format of the Summer School
Due to the worldwide restrictions concerning Covid-19, this summer school is organized in an online format.
Expenses
There are no registration, tuition, and accommodation fees. This Summer School is held digitally; there are no travel expenses.
The themes of the summer school are, in turn, to draw attention to climate change, to learn about the strategies implemented, to adapt these strategies to IDEA and ASPIRE university campuses, and to create new solutions through the exchange of students' ideas. In the summer school organized for 3 days, and 5 workshops under each theme were designed. Maps, concept boards, and other materials produced at the end of each workshop can be shared via the digital platform and students can continue to discuss the topics in blog format.
Themes
Programme
Climate Change and University Campuses (25-27 August 2021)
This programme is scheduled according to the Central European Time (CET).
Speakers
In alphabetical order
Lecture Videos
Workshop I. Governance by Prof Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Workshop III. Design by Prof Eugenio Morello
Workshop IV. Circularity by Prof Niklas von den Aßen
Workshop V. Education by Prof Davis Bookhart
Welcome Speech by Prof Ute Habel
Keynote Speech by Ms Naomi Hoogervorst
Keynote Speech by Prof Christa Reicher
Combat in Numbers
Partner Universities
10+
University Professors
50+
Students Applied
150+
Participation
How to Apply?
This summer school takes place between August 25-27th 2021 on the CCLab online platform.
Registration for the summer school is open until:
June 21st 2021.
This online summer school requires no registration, tuition, and accommodation fees.
Who can apply
Application is open to Master and Ph.D. Students of the member universities of the IDEA League Alliance http://idealeague.org
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RWTH Aachen University;
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Delft University of Technology;
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ETH Zürich;
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Politecnico di Milano;
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Chalmers University of Technology.
This summer school is also open to students from the ASPIRE League (http://www.aspireleague.org) alliance.
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology;
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Nanyang Technological University;
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Tsinghua University;
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Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Login to SiROP
In order to apply you need to log in to SiROP with your university account. When your email belongs to a partner university the affiliation is created automatically. For more information please visit IDEA League registration website.
Organisation & Contact
Local Organisation
Student Associations
RWTH Aachen University Chair and Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism
Prof. Christa Reicher, Director
Dr. ir. Ceren Sezer, Research Associate
Seher Ulusoy, Student Assistant
Caner Telli, Student Assistant
Supporting Team
Elina Krause, B.A, IDEA League Network Coordinator, RWTH Aachen International Office
Hanna Potulski, MSc, Research Associate, Chair and Institute of Urban Design and European Urbanism
Hannah Wilms, RWTH Aachen, Uni.Urban.Mobil.
Krongkwan Jearwattanakanok, RWTH Aachen, Uni.Urban.Mobil
Jiabo Zhang, RWTH Aachen, Energybirds
Ben Sydlik, RWTH Aachen, Energybirds
Niklas Weitzel, RWTH Aachen, Energybirds
Jan Priesmann, RWTH Aachen, Chair of Energy Systems Economics
Saraf Nawar, TU Delft, Green TU
Thomas Arblaster, TU Delft, Green TU
Marco Guerini, Politecnico di Milano, IDEA League Student representative
