MedClimate

Call for Papers

The Mediterranean and Climate Change: Impacts, people, action

The International Summer School is open to all applicants who are ‘Mediterranean stakeholders’, people who, and organizations that, have an interest in planning and acting for the future of the Mediterranean, especially the future as it will be shaped by dangerous and accelerating climate change.  It will bring together two content areas and two methodologies: oceans, climate change, foresight and participatory simulation.

• learn about the complexity and interactions related to the climate impacts, human, biological and physical resources, sustainability, policy, governance, ethical dimensions and cultural diversity of the Mediterranean basin and its coasts under the impact of severe, inevitable climate change;

• become actors in the definition, building and writing of roadmaps* of policies and actions that need to be adopted and undertaken to adapt to and mitigate against climate change in the Mediterranean basin;

• become familiar with methodologies, such as issues- and solutions-oriented foresight methods and data-driven, decision-focused, participatory simulation (Companion Modelling), that enable stakeholders to participate creatively, collectively and constructively to unravel the complex web of interrelated issues and make decision under conditions of uncertainty;

• engage with, get to know and make friends with fellow stakeholders with a variety of views, problems to solve and solutions to offer;  complex web of interrelated issues.

• break new ground in sharing, creating, learning about and promoting effective ways to engage people and communities to undertake positive action to mitigate and adapt to the ravages of climate change in the Mediterranean.

• Provide a structured, methodologically-proven, creative and participatory framework for participants to learn about, engage with and be challenged by the complex interactions among, and dynamics of, actions, resources, science, sustainability, evolution, ethics, best practices, policy and governance related to the Mediterranean basin and its coasts under the physical and societal consequences of climate change;

• Give participants the experience of being actors in the definition, building and writing of (a) new roadmaps for concrete actions in the Mediterranean basin and along its coasts;

• Allow participants practice three different, but complementary, methodological approaches from the inside, and take back new implementable skills to their place of work;

• Give participants the experience of actually practicing and improving (rather than studying) their personal, social, technical and scientific skills in the negotiation of roadmaps for actions;

• Provide a rich opportunity for participants to do in-depth networking and make meaningful connections with like-minded people;

• Enable each participant to express themselves in their own unique way and at their own level;

• Offer the opportunity for each participant to reap the reward of working closely with others, and of becoming owners of a common work, the (to-be-written) roadmaps for actions for a climate-changing Mediterranean. The roadmaps are likely to be useful later when participants return to their organizations and embark on or continue in their quest for implementing appropriate action.

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