Climate
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. While we have acquired substantial knowledge about physical climate changes and to some extent their impacts on society, new knowledge is needed about how to achieve deep, rapid and sustainable transformation of society.
Main content
Education is a key part of this, since society needs citizens and practitioners that integrate understanding of climate change in big and small decisions. Yet transformation of society to meet the climate challenge means that we must think about education in new ways. In the climate pillar of Bergen School of Global Studies we aim to develop courses and student activities that encourage interdisciplinarity, problem-oriented learning, and sustainable innovation.
The pillar is led by the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), an interdisciplinary research centre based at the Faculty of Social Science. While we have acquired substantial knowledge about physical climate changes and to some extent their impacts on society, new knowledge is needed on how to achieve deep, rapid and sustainable transformation of society.
The overarching goal of CET is to produce actionable knowledge that can inform policy and practice about how to achieve deep, rapid and sustainable transformation of society to mitigate climate change. To achieve this, CET initiates and conducts problem-oriented social science research in collaboration with researchers from other disciplines, and with the involvement of public and private sector user partners when appropriate. CET will bring together scientists from a variety of social science and other disciplines, and strengthen itself as a broad and visible interdisciplinary knowledge hub regionally, nationally and internationally.
Electives
Not all elective courses will work with the content and/or schedule of your master's programme.
Please contact the student information centre at the relevant faculty for more information.
