Arqus launches the EDU-CLIMA webinar series on climate change and sustainability

Arqus

22 Oct 2025

The team of the bottom-up initiative EDU-CLIMA has organised a series of webinars about climate change and sustainability with speakers from the six Arqus universities participating in the project (University of Granada, University of Graz, University of Minho, University of Padua, University Wrocław, and Leipzig University), along with a guest speaker from the University of Minnesota.

EDU-CLIMA is part of the cross-disciplinary education for climate action project, a bottom-up initiative funded by the Arqus Innovation Fund, that unites six Arqus universities, coordinated by the University of Graz.

The series will consist of seven webinars that will take place on Wednesday at 16:30 CET.

Date	Speaker	University	Title
29 October	Eva Bauer	University of Graz	From stories to change: digital eco-storytelling as activism in the classroom
26 November	Jana Lo Bello Miller	University of Minnesota	Dreaming towards sustainability. Hope through affect and relationality in climate literacy
17 December	Rui Manuel Nascimento Lima Ramos	University of Minho	How should we approach picture books that promote ecoliteracy in their readers?
21 January	Justyna Deszcz	University of Wroclaw	Let’s talk trash: waste and culture
11 February	Mira Pöhlker	Leipzig University	Integrating research and scientific working into education by the example of EngageMINT
To be confirmed	To be confirmed	University of Padova	To be confirmed
To be confirmed	To be confirmed	University of Granada	To be confirmed