Applications are now open for the Pathways Autumn School 2025: Towards Sustainable and Just Futures: Concepts, Challenges, and Practices

The Pathways Autumn School creates a learning space for early-career researchers in sustainability science, as a space of connection among scientists from all disciplines who are working to understand sustainability challenges and actively contribute to societal transformations. The 2025 School will focus on the concepts, practices and challenges of a more transformative research agenda within sustainability science. 

The programme includes three main streams:

• Module 1 – Towards a shared glossary for interdisciplinary work in sustainability science
• Module 2 – Learning to engage with societal actors: a case study in the Alps
• Module 3 – Technological and geo-political dynamics: Key challenges for sustainability science

Taking place in Aussois, the French Alps, from 13-17 October, 2025, participants will reflect and engage, both personally and collectively through a shared living space and a 5-day programme consisting of interactive workshops, keynote sessions, outdoor activities and interdisciplinary exchange. 

Doctoral researchers and researchers who finished their PhD within the last 10 years (excluding periods of parental leave) who are living and working in Europe are invited to apply.

Find further information and how to apply on the Pathways website.
The call for applications is open until 12 May 2025 at midnight CEST.

Organizing Committee: 

• Cristina O’Callaghan Gordo (Barcelona Institute for Global Health)
• Guntra Aistara (Central European University, Vienna)
• Helmut Haberl (Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna)
• Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, Paris)
• Nigel Yoccoz (University of Tromsø).
• Stephanie O’Toole (Future Earth, Paris)
• Sandrine Paillard (Future Earth, Paris)
• Shonali Pachauri (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg)
• Victoria Reyes (ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona)
• Wolfgang Cramer (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence)