Trainings
Are you interested in actively participating in a workshop? Then take a look at all current course offers here!
Note: The training courses are sorted according to the date of realisation. Please note that any registration deadlines may expire earlier. You will find more detailed information at the respective events.
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13 - 17.10.25
Pathways Autumn School 2025
Futureearth
The Pathways Autumn School creates a learning space for early-career researchers in sustainability science, as a space of connection among scientists from all disciplines who are working to understand sustainability challenges and actively contribute to societal transformations. The 2025 School will focus on the concepts, practices and challenges of a more transformative research agenda within sustainability science.
The programme includes three main streams:
Module 1 - Towards a shared glossary for interdisciplinary work in sustainability science
Module 2 - Learning to engage with societal actors: a case study in the Alps
Module 3 - Technological and geo-political dynamics: Key challenges for sustainability science
Taking place in Aussois, the French Alps, from 13-17 October, 2025, participants will reflect and engage, both personally and collectively through a shared living space and a 5-day programme consisting of interactive workshops, keynote sessions, outdoor activities and interdisciplinary exchange.
Doctoral researchers and researchers who finished their PhD within the last 10 years (excluding periods of parental leave) who are living and working in Europe are invited to apply. Find further information and how to apply on the Pathways website and also on the 2025 School brochure. The call for applications is open until 12 May 2025 at midnight CEST.
23.10.25, Open Innovation in Science Center
Impacts durch Bürger:innen in der Forschung: Mit der OIS Wirkungslogik die Effekte von Partizipation reflektieren
Die Einbindung von Bürger:innen in die Forschung verspricht eine stärkere Orientierung von Forschung an gesellschaftliche Bedürfnisse, neue Forschungsfragen, ein breiteres Verständnis von der Funktionsweise von Wissenschaft usw. Oft müssen trotzdem die Effekte der Einbindung belegt werden, um dessen Nutzen darzustellen.
27. - 31.10.25
Governance, Design and Delivery of Interdisciplinary Higher Education
Utrecht University
Utrecht University has adopted a comprehensive approach to broadening and deepening its interdisciplinary teaching & learning portfolio on all levels of education (bachelor’s, master’s, PhD and continuing education). We combine theory and experiments in the governance of interdisciplinary higher education (IHE) with educational development and teacher professionalization for IHE and with research of IHE. We provide this introduction via lectures, experiential learning and time for reflection. The aim is for participants to reflect on and improve interdisciplinary endeavors at their own institution by learning from the course’s lecturers and fellow participants.
This course has been designed for educational leaders and policy advisors in higher education and for designers of and teachers in interdisciplinary higher education.
Find out more online here.
28.10.25, ITD Alliance
Inaugural Workshop for new Working Group Project: Recognising the Contributions of Integration and Integration Experts
The inaugural workshop of the Recognising the Contributions of Integration and Integration Experts Project (Value Project) of the Integration Experts and Expertise (IEE) Working Group is open to everyone in the ITD community who is interested in exploring how the contributions of integration and integration experts could be recognised and valued.
16.11.2025, Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement
Mini-workshop: Designing for effective decision-making during virtual meetings
Meetings and virtual events often involve asking attendees to make decisions. Decision-making invokes numerous considerations, including how to negotiate power dynamics, empower everyone to express their opinions, and actually reach the outcome(s) you desire. In this Mini-workshop, you will explore four broad decision-making modes (authority rule, consultation, voting, and consensus) and then use the PACT framework to plan a decision-making process. You will leave prepared to deploy decision-making processes in a way that invites all attendees at your meetings and events to contribute.
18.11.25-23.12.25, TU Berlin, Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace
Who rules whom through which form? - Bureaucracy and Democracy - Betzavta/TINS_D Workshop
This workshop explores the paradoxes of bureaucracy and its uneasy alliance with democracy. Bureaucracy promises fairness, clarity, and equal treatment - yet often delivers rigidity, alienation, and a loss of responsibility. What starts as a safeguard of justice becomes a labyrinth of forms in which no one decides and no one can be held accountable.
Application Deadline: 21 October 2025
Date: 18 November - 23 December 2025
12.01.26-16.01.26, TU Berlin
Frieden. Hurra, endlich wieder Krieg. Wissenschaften und Universität in friedlichen und kriegerischen Zeiten.
Der Workshop eröffnet eine fachübergreifende Reflexion darüber, was Krieg und Frieden bedeuten, wie Forschung und Lehre dazu beitragen und welche Rolle Wissenschaftsfreiheit dabei spielt. Die Teilnehmenden gehen der Frage nach, ob Forschung und Lehre tatsächlich Wege zum Frieden eröffnen – und wenn ja, auf welche Weise. Oder ob sie eher Strukturen stabilisieren, die Gewalt, Unterdrückung, Ungleichheit und Krieg begünstigen. Welche Verantwortung tragen die einzelnen Disziplinen, welche die Universität als Ganzes? Und wie verändern sich Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Gehorsam und Widerstand, wenn es nicht nur um abstrakte Erkenntnis, sondern um die Bedingungen des Friedens geht?
Anmeldefrist: 31. Oktober 2025
Datum: 12. - 16. Januar 2026
26-30.01.2026, Centre for Development and Environment
Co-designing pathways for transformative change. Online International Winter School on Sustainable Development for Bachelor’s and Master’s Students
Current global sustainability challenges are increasingly complex. Truly understanding what’s at stake requires knowledge on systemic interactions and on competing claims by different actors. Science has a major role to play in informing negotiations and solutions to guide the societal transformations.
The Online International Winter School on Sustainable Development for Bachelor’s and Master’s Students kicks off on 2 December 2025 with preparatory tasks and activities. The main programme will take place from 26 to 31 January 2026. Apply anytime until 15 October 2025.