The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change is once again offering a range of exciting courses in the winter semester 2025, which we particularly recommend. Registration is now open.
- "Arts and Climate Change" is an interdisciplinary course that unites students from the University of Graz, and students from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz to collaboratively explore climate change topics. Students will form small groups combining members from both universities to investigate climate change issues through social and natural sciences and artistic lenses. Guided by a team of lecturers from both Universities, each group will work independently on a selected topic. The course includes an initial workshop to form groups and discuss topics, one to two intermediate meetings for progress assessment, and a final workshop where groups showcase their projects through performances or exhibitions. The aim is to integrate scientific understanding with artistic expression, fostering a comprehensive approach to addressing climate change
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- Physical climate change essentials and implications for the low carbon transition: introduction of key scientific insights is followed by explore-it-yourself modeling and interactive-learning in student teams, based on simple online models and tools for understanding energy balance principles shaping global temperature, interlinkages of emissions to global warming, connections of global warming to regional climate changes, and carbon management to limit global warming compliant with the Paris climate goals.
- Design of an efficient and just low carbon transition: Allocation of the global carbon budget to countries, subnational regions and sectors based on different fairness principles; what we can learn from Integrated Assessment Modeling; policy tools: the spectrum of climate policy instruments and their respective strengths and necessary design considerations, criteria for getting net-zero strategies right for companies, states and municipalities; core elements of net zero pathways across sectors (housing, transport, industry, energy, agriculture) and their interdependence.
- Wednesday, 11:45–13:15
- 60 Studierende – 7 Universitäten – 1 Ziel: zweisemestrige Wahllehrveranstaltung zum Thema
Nachhaltigkeit, mit Fokus auf den Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Masterstudierende
und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende aller Studienrichtungen sind herzlich eingeladen, sich
für diese interdisziplinäre, universitätsübergreifende Lehrveranstaltung mit Impact zu
bewerben, Praxiserfahrung sowie ECTS zu sammeln - Ausgewählte Studierende aller Studienrichtungen nehmen die Herausforderung an, in interdisziplinären Teams und mit Partner:innen aus der Praxis nachhaltige Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln und umzusetzen.
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