Trainings

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.

Over the course of this training, you'll use CSCCE-created templates to create a Project Canvas describing the three key domains of a project (Foundation, People, and Creation) and the three building blocks of each domain (which include the project’s purpose, benefits, stakeholders, sponsor, and the plan for delivery and evaluation). We use detailed STEM-specific case studies to support you in completing the Project Canvas in small groups, with application sessions intended to aid you in applying the concepts to your own project. Successful graduates from the bootcamp will receive a digital badge to recognize their new skills. 

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: 11 November 2025
Date: 18 November - 23 December 2025

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: 15. November 2025
Datum: 12. - 16. Januar 2026

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. 

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.