Sciences Po and CIVICA: Linking the local and the global
21-10-2021
On 28 October, Sciences Po will host the event “Climate Change and the EU: From Evidence to Action” in the CIVICA Public Lecture Series Tours d’Europe.
The event will be facilitated by journalist Dalal Mawad and feature researchers Carola Klöck from Sciences Po, Sebastian Levi from the Hertie School, László Pintér from the Central European University, and Swenja Surminski from LSE, who will share their expertise on climate change and the role of the European Union.
They will engage with students from across the CIVICA alliance who will share their perspectives on their home countries’ strengths and weaknesses when it comes to fighting climate change to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at hand and engage the local and global community.
CIVICA’s Tours d’Europe Public Lecture Series
The “Climate Change and the EU: From Evidence to Action” event will take place in the context of CIVICA’s work package 7 project “CIVICA for Society: Reaching out”. For CIVICA, the Tours d’Europe Lecture Series is an opportunity to engage with the local community to promote democratic values, and work to enact change within European society.
In partnership with CIVICA, Sciences Po aims to engage with current European and global reflections on climate change in the context of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference that will take place between 1-12 November in Glasgow. The common goal is to understand and address the current proposals designed to mitigate and adapt to climate realities, and to assemble a kaleidoscope of perspectives from across Europe and generations.
Linking the local and the global
“We would like to connect our universities together—teaching, learning, research—but also we would like the university to connect with society. The local society in the country where we are, but also the European society at large,” notes Chrys Margaritidis, Dean of Students at the Central European University. Indeed, what are the ways in which we—as students, researchers, members of a larger global community—can work to connect local societies and the larger European community to fight climate change? This is precisely the question that the event hopes to answer.
Join experts from CEU, Hertie School, LSE and Sciences Po, as well as students from all over Europe, for an online event on Thursday, 28 October from 5:30 to 7:30pm. The event will be translated into both French and English. Register here>>
Watch the video below to learn more about the event.
Written by Sciences Po’s editorial team