CCES Winter School - Science Meets Practice
Education & Research Units
Integrative Elements
News & Events
News from the CCES office
CCES supports synthesis projects
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Report ‘Energiezukunft Schweiz’
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Scientific Events
Symposium on deep geothermal energy at the 9th Swiss geoscience meeting, 2011
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International Workshop ‘Small Scale Radiocarbon Analysis’
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Outreach
Climpol: Final public event of two transdisciplinary case studies
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Education
Second edition of the CCES Winter School ‘Science Meets Practice’
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Research
Understanding groundwater formation dynamics as a prerequisite to safeguard future drinking water supply
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Information on the CCES Winter School 2012: Documents
Strengthening the dialogue between science and practice
How can scientists lead a true dialogue with citizens? This is the topic of the CCES Winter School “Science Meets Practice”.
A dialogue between science and practice requires the capability of scientific community members to understand and critically reflect their scientific activities and their consequences for society and the environment. It is crucial that scientists themselves elaborate, in dialogue with stakeholders, relevance and implications of scientific findings. The CCES Winter School supports these efforts and enhances the capability to create interactions beyond scientific boundaries.
Linking environmental science and practice
By joining the Winter School, participants are acquiring knowledge and skills for the dialogue between science and practice and are improving their capabilities to understand and analyze the foundations of their research as well as the societal implications of its results. Together with their peers the participants reflect on their own scientific projects with respect to their societal embedding, relevance, and consequences. The Winter School is an opportunity to get in touch with stakeholders from administration, policy, and the civil society fostering the dialogue beyond the scientific community.
Building dialogue capacity beyond the scientific community
The Winter School provides insights into theoretical and methodological foundations on the challenges of knowledge exchange and dialogue between science and practice. It offers media and knowledge management training for enhancing stakeholder involvement. Selected case studies support group work discussions and analysis. Students-stakeholders network meetings are organized for testing techniques in view of identifying diverse expectations and needs. Together, the Winter School participants and stakeholders work towards developing ideas for better linking environmental science and practice.
The CCES Winter School was run for the first time in January and February 2011. It was supported by ETH Sustainability, the coordination office for sustainability at ETH Zurich, and Innovedum, the ETH fund fostering teaching innovation projects at ETH Zurich.
