Five parallel courses
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) sparked much research, spanning a wide range of disciplines, and drew attention to neglected social issues. However, given the current challenges posed by climate change, it is legitimate to ask whether or not they have been helpful (enough) in creating good strategies for sustainable development?
The United Nations stresses the importance of research and higher education institutions for a post-2015 agenda. New knowledge, critical assessments, and scientific methods must inform discussions on what should follow the MDGs. These new “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDG) provide the framework for the scientific courses and discussions at the Bergen Summer Research School in June 2015.
Moreover, at BSRS2015 we acknowledge the complexities involved in both addressing and solving the challenges inherent in the eventual implementation of the SDG. Hence, we will cross both disciplinary boundaries and geographic borders, by bringing together an international panel of researchers and PhD candidates from the natural and social sciences as well as from the humanities and law.
Critical analyses, creative solutions and open debate are all welcome here! In addition to the courses, 10-12 roundtables will be arranged, where scholars from the different courses meet for even broader discussions with policy-makers and representatives from various sectors of society.
The BSRS 2015 will be organised in five parallel courses aimed at PhD students and junior scholars. They will all be held in English.
Paper presentations at BSRS will be ECTS credited.
Below is a preliminary presentation of the courses: