Citizen knowledge and climate change - online seminar in the framework of the European project TeRRIFICA

With the collaboration of the European project H2020 TeRRIFICA, on co-creation and climate change, the Erasmus + Mehmed project, led by the University of Girona, will organize a virtual seminar focused on citizen knowledge and climate change on Friday 25 March from 10am CET to 12:30 pm CET, with special reference to the situation in the Mediterranean.

The seminar aims to address the essential involvement of citizens in actions related to both knowledge and climate action. In this sense, we will focus on three aspects: citizen science, communication with citizens and the dynamics of co-creation.

The seminar is open to all interested people who wish to attend through this virtual room at Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86735855219 and will be held in English.

Moderated by Joaquim Brugué, Professor of Political Science at the University of Girona (UdG), the seminar will feature the following three papers:

• Media and climate change: communication and citizen perception, by Pep Espluga (Department of Sociology - UAB)
• Citizenship and climate change, by Norbert Steinhaus (Science Shop Bonn and coordinator of the TeRRIFICA project).
• The art of co-creation, by Xavier Jané (Coperfield for Social Good).

The seminar will conclude with an open discussion with all participants.

What is TeRRIFICA?

The EU funded project TeRRIFICA (Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation Fostering Innovative Climate Action) aims to influence climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and foster competence for climate change adaptation and mitigation in six European regions with a specific focus on Responsible Research and Innovation and the co-creation of knowledge.

In a trans-disciplinary partnership, TeRRIFICA involves six European countries, bringing together three research institutions, three non-profit organisations, one public association of universities and one public institution for science promotion. TeRRIFICA is led by WILA Bonn (Bonn, Germany) and the TeRRIFICA consortium is composted by the Rhine-Waal University (Kleve, Germany), the Education for Sustainable Development Association (Minsk, Belarus), the Center for the Promotion of Science (Belgrade, Serbia), the University of Vechta (Germany), the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), Sciences Citoyennes (Paris, France) and the Catalan Association of Public Universities (Barcelona, Spain). The project is funded by the Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission.

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