Trainings

January 23, February 20, March 20, April 24, May 22, June 19, 2026,

4:00pm – 5:00pm CET, online

Following the interest generated by the first season of the Tea Time Talks (TTT), the Temporalities, Rhythms & Complexity Lab welcomes again all those - students, researchers or professionals - who are looking for an informal and yet stimulating virtual space to exchange or explore new ideas, start conversations, and develop new or unexpected connections.

TTT offer a playground for intellectual exploration, and a favorable environment for testing concepts, exchanging points of view and refining our thinking. These conversations (in English) revolve around the TRC Lab's research themes (time, space, rhythm, complexity, rhythmic intelligence, rhythmanalysis) and the themes that ground the work conducted at the Sunkhronos Institute (transformation, transition, emancipatory education, critical pedagogy, life history, experiential learning).

We – the Art of Hosting community – see collective intelligence and participatory methodologies to give it life as a creative way forward.  
 
Join us to learn, experiment and practice during the “Art of Participatory Leadership” training, near Geneva, on March 18-21st 2026!
 
We’ll explore 
- how to navigate, individually and collectively, through constantly evolving and quite unpredictable conditions in the world around us
- how to increase engagement of colleagues and stakeholders across disciplines, departments and organisations
- how to make the professional environment and the ways of working richer and more productive. 
 
Experiment with methods and approaches and live the ethos for ensuring your meetings and collaborative processes matter.

What counts more in your private and professional life - result or process? Do you already have the answer and want others to just accept it? Do you prefer to endlessly discuss without getting into action? - Whom do you include in decision making processes and whom do you exclude? When do you feel included/excluded yourself? - What are you allowed to take decisions upon and what is kept beyond your reach?

16 February > 13 April 2026
16 Online Meetings

Der Kurs beruht vollständig auf der Interaktion der Teilnehmenden. Wir erkunden, was Demokratie bedeutet und wie sie zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen kann. Jeden Workshoptag werden wir zahlreiche Aktivitäten gemeinsam durchführen und reflektieren, so dass wir demokratisches Handeln in einem konkreten Kontext einüben und dieses Wissen in andere Kontexte übertragen können.

Datum: 18. bis 22. Mai 2026
Anmeldeschluss: 07 April 2026

The workshop is organized in collaboration between ETH Zurich, Eawag, WSL, and td-net. This interactive workshop brings together researchers interested in exploring diverse forms of science‑society relations. A novel typology of science-society relations developed within the Anthro:Relate project will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange experiences from different research contexts and to jointly reflect on factors that enable transformative science–society collaborations. The program includes facilitated discussions, reflection pitches by invited experts, a peer‑to‑peer coaching session, and concludes with an apéro.

Date: 26 May 2026
Registration Deadline: 19 May 2026

New LeadCampus training and continuing education offers on integrative leadership (12.6.2026), knowledge integration (03.07.2026) and researchers’ roles in inter- and transdisciplinary projects (on demand) offered by the Inter- and Transdisciplinary (ITD) Research Group at Eawag in close collaboration with WSL and TdLab (ETHZ).

At the Green Policy Lab, a Summer School co-organized by the University of Vienna and IIASA, you’ll explore how researchers can meaningfully contribute to green and evidence-informed policymaking. Through an immersive programme combining hands-on learning, expert input, and international ex- change, you’ll discover what it takes to navigate the science-policy interface and make your research count. Join us and become part of a growing community shaping greener and more resilient futures!

Apply by 9 March 2026
Date: 06 - 10 July 2026

Research for whom? Whose knowledge counts? How can we make research practices more inclusive? And how can Citizen Science contribute to solving societal challenges? 

We are back with the 5th edition of our Citizen Science School series! This summer school focuses on the topic “Co-Creating Knowledge: Transforming Research Through Citizen Science”. Are you interested in Citizen Science and its participatory approaches? Are you a Master’s student, doctoral candidate, postdoc, or practitioner aiming to develop a Citizen Science project idea? Or are you already planning or implementing a project? This program will give you the tools and methods to take your Citizen Science journey further.

Application Deadline: 15 February 2206

The 6th Swiss Social Sciences and Humanities Energy Research Workshop (SSH Energy 2026) opens a forum for researchers, modellers, practitioners, and policymakers to critically reflect on what connects us as an SSH community, and how we shape discourses that support a just energy transition. Integrating social sciences and humanities into energy research and policymaking is vital, but the approaches by which this integration is achieved warrant careful consideration, given their potential to shape transformative change.

Date: 16 - 17 July 2026
Registration deadline: 29 May 2026

Unfortunately, the list is long. Conflicts are related and an integral part of human beings, as conflicts cause violation of human rights.
Existing conflicts weaken every kind of cooperation between nations, states and Institutions. Without lasting mutual cooperation and understanding, the future prosperity of the world would remain only as a good dream. Taking into consideration of peaceful behaviour and engagements, we can make a decision on the strict belief, that opportunities for solving all kind of conflicts are feasible.

Date: 04 - 14 August 2026

The Summer School strengthens master’s and PhD students’ competences in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, focusing on co-creating transformative knowledge with diverse actors. Through hands-on tools, and collaborative experiments, participants explore challenges in designing and conducting research that meaningfully responds to societal needs.
Date: 24 - 28 August 2026
Appliaction Deadline: 30 April 2026

For some time now, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have been rethinking capital and work beyond purely economic terms. Ideas such as Pierre Bourdieu’s mapping of social, cultural, and symbolic capital, James Coleman’s concept of “social capi- tal,” and John Guillory’s use of cultural capital in debates about canon formation have shown that “capital” operates across many dimensions of life and multiple disciplines. More recently, concepts such as “genetic capital,” “biovalue,” and “biocapital” have foregrounded the growing intertwining of biotechnology and capitalism.

Summer school date: 31 August - 4 September 2026
Application Deadline: 19 April 2026