ABSTRACT. Although the environmental problems and their root causes connected to the rapid and totally uncontrolled expansion of the “Anthroposphere” over the Geo-Hydro-Biosphere were analyzed and emphasized by scientists, thinkers, nature lovers, the entire environmental movement and many leaders since the 1960s, humanity seems to be “surprised” and “unprepared” for the environmental crises we are experiencing today.

This is due to the fact that our warnings were weakened, “masked”, marginalized and finally ignored by major parts of the society, as a result of the “noise” created by an extremely complex combination of factors and conditions. Some of them were, and still are, linked to strong vested interests, while quite many are connected to governance failures and incoherent short-term policies at all levels. Many more elements undermining environmentally friendly choices are due to myriads of largely unintentional but detrimental, shortsighted market, communication and cultural interventions following “trends” and new “symbols of success”.

Unfortunately, these trends are augmented unintentionally by new communication and information technologies, leading to a “superficialisation” of knowledge, “tyranny of the picture” and education focusing rather on information than on comprehension based on critical analysis and abstract thinking.

Because of the above, many think that they know enough on key issues, despite the fact that ignorance and misconceptions prevail, even among decision-makers, on serious issues such as climate change.

The lecture will start by briefly positioning humans in nature, which by the way, is also at the starting point of the establishment, already in 1971, of the “Man and the Biosphere” (MAB) programme of UNESCO and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).

It will review rapidly the evolution of the root causes of environmental degradation and specifically the climate crisis, as well as the analysis of the latest trends and key impacts. It will further briefly present the efforts undertaken by the International Community to address the challenges through the Sustainable Development (SDGs), other International Treaties and initiatives. Information will be provided on our pioneering efforts in the Mediterranean and the presentation will conclude with the identification of key points and policies for the needed priority actions that may enhance hope and optimism for our next steps.

ABSTRACT. As climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising social inequalities intensify globally, regions such as Crete and Northern Greece emerge as emblematic territories for developing and enacting systemic and place-based responses. With its unique constellation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks, Greece offers a fertile landscape for rethinking sustainability and resilience through anticipatory and transdisciplinary frameworks. This paper contributes to ongoing discussions on climate resilience by foregrounding the role of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSHA) in co-creating inclusive, forward-looking strategies in concert with STEM and technical disciplines. Focusing on the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks of Northern Greece—specifically the Prespa National Park and Vikos-Aoos Geopark—this contribution explores how these “living laboratories” serve as anticipatory spaces where ecological stewardship, cultural heritage, and community-led innovation intersect. Drawing on fieldwork, participatory research, and collaborative workshops with local stakeholders, we examine how transdisciplinary practices can catalyze actionable change rooted in place-specific knowledge, memory, and aspirations. We argue that anticipatory capacity—defined as the ability to imagine, prepare for, and shape desirable futures—can be strengthened through creative and dialogic engagements that challenge disciplinary boundaries. This paper identifies three key drivers of innovation in these contexts: (1) the interweaving of local ecological knowledge with scientific expertise; (2) the mobilization of artistic and narrative practices to render climate futures tangible and emotionally resonant; and (3) the cultivation of agonistic spaces that embrace contestation as a productive force for socio-political transformation. Through a synthesis of transdisciplinary methodologies, including speculative storytelling, participatory mapping, and arts-based co-creation, the paper illustrates how anticipatory practices can foster situated responses to climate uncertainty. Importantly, we reflect on the role of conflict, contradiction, and plurality in coproducing knowledge, arguing for a shift from consensus-driven models of sustainability to more inclusive and dynamic approaches that honor diverse voices, especially those historically marginalized. Our findings contribute to ongoing efforts by the COST Action CA21166 network to foreground the transformative potential of SSHA in climate resilience discourses. We emphasize that anticipatory dialogue must go beyond forecasting and scenariobuilding to actively reshape the epistemic and institutional architectures that condition responses to climate and social crises. In this sense, Northern Greece’s biosphere reserves and geoparks offer not only models of ecological conservation but also laboratories for democratic experimentation and visionary civic engagement. This paper ultimately invites researchers, practitioners, and communities to reimagine climate resilience as a shared, ongoing practice of world-making. It underscores the necessity of interdisciplinary solidarity and creative action in bridging the gap between knowledge and transformation, and calls for sustained investment in the infrastructures—material, relational, and imaginative—that enable inclusive, just, and sustainable futures.

ABSTRACT. The Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is recognized for its ecological and cultural value. However, growing pressures from unregulated tourism, weak governance, and chronic underfunding have intensified habitat degradation, social conflict, and institutional mistrust. Top-down conservation approaches have struggled to adapt, often sidelining Indigenous and local knowledge systems. Despite the formal introduction of co-management frameworks, local participation in decision-making remains limited and largely symbolic.

This study applies the Critical Institutional Analysis and Development (CIAD) framework to examine how existing co-management arrangements shape conservation outcomes and community inclusion in Sian Ka’an. The analysis identifies persistent power imbalances, institutional fragmentation, and competing interests that marginalize local voices and hinder adaptive governance. Yet, it also highlights opportunities for reform: inclusive co-management has the potential to enhance ecological resilience, equity, and trust if governance structures are reoriented to genuinely support local agency. By tracing the reserve’s historical and institutional dynamics, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of how participatory governance can align conservation goals with social justice. Ultimately, the study underscores the importance of strengthening institutions to ensure they are not only accountable but also responsive to the needs and rights of local communities.

ABSTRACT. This presentation will discuss the ways in which modern understandings of what constitutes as ‘sport’ might be used to facilitate climate action within local communities. The Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector is argued to be an active agent in perpetuating neoliberal and neocolonial ideas of what traditional ‘sport’ is, through its dependence upon foreign aid and corporate social responsibility funding, while adhering to standardised notions of sporting rules and regulations typically formulated within Western society. However, more recent conceptualisations as to what ‘sport’ can be consider more individualised notions of informal games, play, and leisure within local contexts. Building upon previous research (Soares Moura & Scott, 2024) and ongoing work, it is proposed that this lattermost formulation of what ‘sport’ can be through indigenous understandings might be utilised to foster climate action within local communities, by drawing upon their relationship with ecology and natural environment using a Glocalized approach. The synthesis of this research will highlight the importance of grassroots ‘sport’, going beyond previous notions of formalised, regulated, team-based conquest games, and how experiencing the impacts of climate change through community-level activities can help people understand how large global forces affect their local environments. Focus is placed upon how these local encounters with climate change can shape peoples’ understandings of the broader forces at play, some of which are attributable to the global reach of traditional understandings of globalised ‘sport’, and what this means for promoting responsible, sustainable ecologies of modern, informalised, and local-based ‘sport’, in the future.

ABSTRACT. Cycling to Care (C2C) is an inter-generational, action-research initiative. Inspired by the global Cycling Without Age movement, C2C offers slow trishaw rides that voluntarily bring older residents, caregivers and young volunteers into shared contact with their neighbourhood, nature and one another. It is not a medical or “socially prescribed” intervention; rides are co-designed with local NGOs and participants for delight, connection and inquiry. Each outing weaves multisensory observation, memory sharing and gentle movement into a micro-ritual of care. Participants capture feelings, scents, colours and conversations in illustrated bitácoras, turning personal reflection into qualitative data for the wider living-lab. Coupled with artistic way-finding and co-design workshops, these materials can help re-imagine urban spaces as a New European Bauhaus testbed—low-carbon, inclusive and beautiful. This Pecha Kucha traces C2C’s method and early insights: rises in perceived relatedness, place attachment and eco-empathy; the emergence of “emotional infrastructure” along overlooked streets; and lessons from adapting a grassroots cycling practice to hospital ethics, volunteer training and city regulations. We argue that urban resilience can begin with slow, shared motion—pedals, pauses and poetic presence. What futures surface when mobility shifts from throughput to attunement, and how might cycling with care heal, plan and transform urban life? 

ABSTRACT. Climate anxiety, social fragmentation and ecological loss demand new tools for collective sense-making. This panel shows how artistic, emotional and embodied methods can transform urban institutions into living laboratories for climate resilience. Drawing on Barcelona’s ReHEALMS programme and its neighbourhood offshoot Pulmons de Barri, three concise papers and an interactive exercise reveal how hospitals, streets and community groups co-produce rituals that make transition tangible.

Giulia Sonetti maps how intergeneretinal cycling and sensory mapping can help re-imagine the Sant Pau heritage hospital as an anticipatory care campus. Didac Ferrer presents Penjant d’un fil and Aquarel·IA, where citizen water-colour murals converse with generative AI to translate grief and hope into actionable futures. María Carol Sanjurjo shares the artistic intervention at ReHealms and how theey have co-shaped the impact of this EIT/NEB cofunded project. A discussant from the COST SHiFT network will situate these cases within Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves.

The session closes with a mini “thread” ritual: audience members attach one handwritten eco-emotion to a line, collectively sketching a provisional "landscape" of shared affect. The exercise embodies the panel’s claim that feeling together is a prerequisite for acting together.

By merging arts, health research and urban design, Arts of Healing speaks directly to conference themes of transdisciplinary pathways, cultural dimensions of sustainability and living laboratories for transformation. It offers low-tech, replicable practices that any community can adapt to turn vulnerability into imaginative power.

ABSTRACT. This paper analyses the case study of CineEco - International Environmental Film Festival of Serra da Estrela as an example of how this Portuguese Mountainous territory fosters climate resilience through culture. The festival has been held in the municipality of Seia since 1995. As the CineEco (n.d.) festival website page state, “It is the only film festival in Portugal dedicated to environmental issues in their broadest sense”. The projects presented at the festival aim to be at the forefront of changing attitudes, encouraging people to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives. In addition to helping raise awareness about environmental issues, CineEco highlights the need to protect natural landscapes, communities and infrastructure from the destructive effects of climate change not only in the region of Serra da Estrela but also across the world. The festival aims to evoke emotions, and people are more likely to take action to protect what they love or feel a deep connection to. This leads us to the concept of topophilia, coined by Yi-Fu Tuan, in 1974, and described as the “human love of place”. Previously, Baba Dioum (1968) had also stated that “We only conserve what we love, we only love what we understand, and we only understand what we are taught”. Therefore, this case study looks forward to highlighting the importance of fostering the care and love for place, nature and the environment in our society through the use of culture.

ABSTRACT. Understanding literacy as only the ability to read and write is a thing of the past. Literacy today is not only understanding different meanings in various contexts, but also reacting to them in situations, which is mostly achieved by combining experience and knowledge from different areas and disciplines according to UNESCO’s definition. When we introduce the notion of sustainability literacy as coined in the UNSDG, according to which, sustainability literacy is the knowledge, skills and mindsets that allow individuals to become deeply committed to building a sustainable future, the issue becomes even more complex. Twenty-first challenges to the global ecology are only beginning to scrape the surface of literature and literary studies’ potential to understand commonalities that lead to sustainability. This presentation addresses the question: How can literary studies help us to address sustainability challenges, like equality and climate? The aim is thus to explore methods and strategies in literary studies that can offer insights into living in a more just world between us and in how we interact and treat the nonhuman and nature, representing the path to sustainability literacy. It will begin by providing an overview of the meaning of the term ‘sustainability literacy’, followed by a brief presentation of two case studies – one from primary education (elementary school students) and one from higher education and conclude with an overview of potential methods and strategies to be employed in working with students on literary works to enhance their sustainability literacy.

ABSTRACT. Climate science has long presented its warnings in models, variables, tables, and graphs – impressive, complex, startling, frightening results. But for many, these details remain distant, locked away somewhere, leading to ignorance, numbness, and paralysis. Actionism exists only among a few citizens.

In our Citizen Art project, we combine Augmented Reality, Sferism, and Appropriation Art to enable citizens to create climate-related photos or videos on their mobile phones: climate issues play a central role both in the citizens’ creation processes and in sharing of the resulting works. We try to shift the focus from technical presentations to emotional ones, from recipients of information to creative actors and to community engagement.

Our project started with oil on canvas - visions of a possible future status of the Earth with acidic, reddened, desert-resembling, barely habitable areas. These painted futures were passed on to 3D artists who developed the Climate Sphere. This freely available digital globe is waiting to be placed in our world using Augmented Reality techniques on mobile phones. Examples of climate-related real-world elements include fountains as a metaphor for a world in need of cooling, airplanes producing condensation trails, or melting glaciers. Appropriation Art reinterprets physical artworks by adding the Climate Sphere.

In contrast to typical citizen science projects, we provide a semi-finished product that can be completed by creative actions of citizens. In our presentation we will show for the first time examples of digital artifacts created by Citizen Artists.

ABSTRACT. This presentation, drawn from my forthcoming book with Palgrave Macmillan, Leveraging Satire for Environmental Advocacy: Creative Arts in the Chthulucene, offers a critical examination of the concept of resilience in climate action and its implications for emancipatory worlding. While resilience is often framed as a positive and adaptive response to environmental challenges, I argue that it functions as a mechanism that perpetuates the status quo. Resilience, in this sense, is politically inert, relying on traits like optimism, intelligence, and creativity that serve as ideological prescriptions to maintain existing power structures. For some, resilience becomes a means of buying time for crisis managers to uphold business-as-usual practices. For others, it is an exhausting imperative that demands the internalization of stressors and crises, thereby undermining the potential for meaningful political action. Ultimately, resilience and adaptation emerge as placating strategies that hinder systemic transformation.

In contrast, externalization is proposed as a more effective framework for addressing environmental and social challenges. Externalization involves recognizing and politicizing the structural phenomena that resilience seeks to absorb, thereby shifting the focus from individual or collective endurance to the systemic roots of crises. This approach demands a rethinking of resilience as a concept that hinders, rather than facilitates, genuine political and social change. By inviting a reconsideration of how we engage with environmental and social challenges, this critique advocates for a politicization of these issues that moves beyond individual resilience to collective action and systemic change.

To illustrate this critique, I turn to an analysis of the European Green Deal (EGD). While the EGD purports to address climate and environmental challenges through measures such as tax reforms and the Just Transition Mechanism, its reliance on capitalist market mechanisms reveals a commitment to maintaining existing socio-economic structures rather than redistributing wealth or addressing historical inequities. The EGD’s focus on “well-designed tax reforms” to boost economic growth and “resilience to climate shocks” reflects a narrow vision of change that upholds the status quo within a capitalist framework. Furthermore, the EGD perpetuates European parochialism and imperialism by ignoring the historical legacies of colonialism, the Plantationocene, and the systemic inequities that underpin global environmental and social crises. Its limited engagement with the non-EU world, framed primarily through the lens of EU security and geopolitical interests, underscores a patronizing attitude that prioritizes European stability and financial interests over global justice. The question arises: what justice is being pursued when the structural and historical roots of these crises remain unaddressed?

This presentation offers a critical intervention into the discourse on resilience and adaptation, challenging scholars, policymakers, and activists to rethink their approaches to environmental and social justice. By advocating for a shift from resilience to externalization, it calls for a more radical engagement with the systemic transformations needed to address the challenges of the Chthulucene.

ABSTRACT. Within environmental humanities and allied SSH fields, it is long clear that complex societal challenges – like climate change and biodiversity loss – require inter/transdisciplinary responses. While policy rhetoric increasingly acknowledges this need, such as the European Commission’s emphasis on integrating SSH into Research & Innovation (DGRTD, 2021), SSH remains underrepresented and often in a subordinate role, being in service to STEM (Royston and Foulds 2021). This contribution considers how R&I funding must change to enable anticipatory and inter/transdisciplinary dialogue for climate resilience and future-oriented transformation. Our analysis is based on findings from the SSH Centre; a Horizon Europe-funded project aimed at strengthening SSH in climate, energy, and mobility research. Through ten Briefing Notes, we identify persistent barriers to SSH integration. These challenges range from epistemic incompatibilities, SSH marginalisation, and organizational silos, to funding metrics and evaluation criteria. However, we argue that addressing these issues through theme-specific fixes is insufficient for achieving anticipatory and systemic change. In response, we present a Research and Innovation Agenda that proposes a structural rethinking of European funding frameworks, particularly the upcoming FP10. Rather than listing thematic research priorities, the RIA identifies enabling conditions that anticipate and address future societal needs, supporting transformative solutions for climate resilience and environmental protection. Our contribution argues that genuine inter/transdisciplinarity for designing inclusive, just, and sustainable futures will remain aspirational without structural changes that empower SSH and reform project designs to create space for SSH to critically examine and reshape the policy goals that currently define climate research agendas.

ABSTRACT. In the search for social changes that would provide innovative and integrative approaches to overcoming global challenges such as climate change, there arises a need to establish a discourse in which social and humanistic sciences contribute more directly to the environment. From a historical perspective, the Yugoslav Marxism that developed from the 1950s to the 1980s can be an example of how, through dialectical practice, the social sciences and doctrine of Marxist humanism became an integral part of the broader socio-political discourse, providing a social foundation and relevance to the humanization of the living environment. The human-nature relationship evolved across various narratives—from general principles of shaping the human environment and raising ecological awareness, to the idea of environmental science and experimental models in architectural education. Within this framework, the pursuit of urban life in harmony with nature became an interdisciplinary theme in broader architectural discussions in Yugoslavia, engaging fields such as urban sociology, cultural anthropology of city, and ecological activism. This paper presents the fundamental positions on the environment that shaped the architectural culture of socialist humanism in Yugoslavia through concepts developed under slogans such as "man and environment" and "a city tailored to man". In the present moment these examples demonstrate that, through an anticipatory approach, the social and humanistic sciences can offer solutions that foster positive and active socio-ecological dynamics aimed at mitigating or eliminating issues that affect the sustainability and development of cities amid diverse anthropogenic processes contributing to environmental degradation.

ABSTRACT. The dissertation reevaluates Sustainable Development Goals and European Climate Policies, through the lens of planetary boundaries and the limits to Growth that the Doughnut Model of Kate Raworth applies. The study assesses European and local policies on climate change, sustainability, decarbonization and resilience of the cities using tools derived from the doughnut model. The thesis concludes that the doughnut model can be a valuable tool to get a holistic, communicative and participatory overview of the situation in a country or a city. It also offers a clear evaluation of the policies and identifies the various sectors that need improvement to ensure humanity remains within safe planetary boundaries. The assessment revealed a significant gap in European policies to address various environmental boundaries. Additionally, the proposed solutions emphasize the use of AI and IoT, which brings numerous global adverse effects that need careful consideration.

ABSTRACT. This communication explores the multifaceted relationships between children and animals in rural areas, focusing on the central inland regions of Portugal. Drawing from ethnographic research and participatory methodologies with rural children, the study investigates how everyday interactions with animals—companion, wild, and farm—shape children’s experiences, imaginaries, and relational worlds. Grounded in more-than-human and post-anthropocentric perspectives, the analysis moves beyond utilitarian or symbolic readings of animals to consider the complex, affective, and spatial entanglements that emerge between human and non-human lives in rural settings. In these territories, animals are part of the everyday social and ecological fabric. Companion animals such as dogs and cats are not only sources of affection and play but also figures of protection, routine, and emotional support, especially in contexts where peer networks may be limited. Farm animals, including chickens, goats, sheep, and cows, are often integrated into children's lives through domestic chores, family economies, and seasonal rhythms. These relations are marked by a mix of care, responsibility, and ambivalence, as children often witness cycles of life and death, production and consumption, in close proximity. Wild animals—ranging from foxes and boars to birds, reptiles, and insects—evoke a different register of interaction, often shaped by curiosity, fear, stories, and local ecological knowledge. The presence or absence of wild species also reflects broader environmental changes and rural transformations, including land abandonment and shifting human-animal boundaries. By focusing on children's lived experiences and relational ecologies, the communication challenges anthropocentric divisions between nature and culture, challenging essentialised notions of their connections.

ABSTRACT. The proposed paper explores how the paradigmatic framework of integral ecology, as outlined in the encyclical Laudato Si`, can transform the pedagogy of International Political Economy (IPE) to foster anticipatory and participatory learning. IPE is an integrative field embodying both the past and future of social sciences. It returns to the origins before the social science disciplines fragmented and, with its interdisciplinary core, addresses today's complex socio-environmental challenges. Adopting integral ecology enhances IPE's efforts, advancing a more actionable, transdisciplinary approach. Building on this foundation, the proposed paper offers a critical review of existing IPE curricula and the textbooks they use, along with emerging scholarship on the integral ecology paradigm in the social sciences, to identify opportunities for pedagogical innovation necessary for climate resilience. The paper proposes guidelines for three teaching modules centered on development, ecology, and the IPE of knowledge. These modules will not only offer interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary content but will also emphasize participative pedagogies that nurture critical thinking, ethical reflection, and holistic understanding—fundamental aspects of the integral ecology paradigm. Accordingly, the envisioned transformation of IPE teaching addresses not only the descriptive dimension but also the prescriptive one, aiming to cultivate common-good literacy skills as a form of anticipatory learning. In sum, by integrating the principles of integral ecology into IPE education, this study aspires to serve as an incubator for modest yet meaningful renewal in social science pedagogy, equipping learners to address complex global challenges such as climate change, with a more comprehensive, dialogical and ethical perspective.

ABSTRACT. The objective of the current study is to analyze the main challenges and barriers of 30 transdisciplinary initiatives dedicated to sustainability issues and how these identified concerns are associated with other characteristics of the selected projects. In addition, potential solutions are intended to be recommended based on the benefits of the pillars of knowledge co-creation. For analyzing the transdisciplinary initiatives according to their particularities, with a focus on barriers and challenges encountered in the implementation period, the following three steps were followed: (i) running a descriptive analysis of the projects, considering their particularities (i.e., primary purpose, main topic addressed, geographical area, period of implementation, voices of the projects, capacity building, inclusivity and participation, challenges and barriers, benefits and results), (ii) applying the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to identify the associations between these specificities, and (iii) building graphic representations for the groups of projects divided according to their primary purpose, while focusing on their main challenges and barriers. Concluding, the most numerous projects are practice-oriented, targeting a narrower geographical area, while climate management and sustainable practices are the most frequently addressed topics. The barriers found across the investigated initiatives are found to be diverse and can be grouped in the following categories: (i) socio-political barriers, (ii) resource constraints, and (iii) technical and logistical challenges. Given the human-oriented nature of co-creation, the barriers mostly supported by the co-creation pillars concern human resources, their engagement, resistance to change, interests balanced, and effective partnerships. However, they might positively contribute even in such circumstances.

ABSTRACT. The increasing effects of climate change necessitate a re-evaluation of the resilience of agricultural production systems, especially pasture-based livestock systems. This compilation study examines how livestock systems can be transformed under climate uncertainty conditions from an interdisciplinary perspective within the framework of the concept of pastoral resilience. First, the definition, scope and development of the concept of pastoral resilience are summarized in the study; then, the current importance of this concept in the context of climate change is examined. Traditional systems based on small livestock farming offer an important model with sustainable use of natural resources, local knowledge systems and flexible management approaches. In light of field research conducted in the eastern and southeastern regions of Türkiye and international literature, the adaptation capacity of pastoral systems, their relationship with biocultural heritage and environmental resilience are analyzed. In the second section, the integration possibilities of traditional knowledge systems with modern tools such as sensor technologies, remote sensing and data-based decision support systems are discussed. How transdisciplinary approaches overlap with pastoral knowledge is discussed with examples from the fields of social sciences, ecology and engineering. As a result, it is emphasized that livestock systems should be evaluated not only as production units but also as cultural and ecological structures. In this context, issues such as animal welfare, pasture management, ethical production and rural narrative practices stand out as elements that contribute to climate resilience. The study proposes a community-based and inclusive framework that integrates traditional knowledge with modern technologies.

ABSTRACT. This proposal examines universities as key players in advancing climate resilience and societal transformation. As institutions shaping knowledge, infrastructure, and culture, universities are well-positioned to serve as experimental spaces and innovation drivers. The proposal emphasizes both the physical design of campuses—particularly the inclusion of green and accessible spaces—and the participatory processes through which university communities can enact sustainable futures. Growing concerns about mental well-being, ecological degradation, and social inequity are emerging as key drivers for rethinking institutional practices in response to the urgent demands of climate resilience.

Green spaces play a crucial role in this transformation, offering benefits for physical and mental health, biodiversity, and climate regulation. Despite their potential, these spaces are often underutilized, and university communities are frequently excluded from decisions regarding the management of these areas. Strengthening green infrastructure on campuses not only enhances quality of life but also embodies sustainability values.

Based on a participatory study at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), this proposal shares insights into how students and staff perceive sustainability opportunities in campus life. The study supports the co-creation of place-based practices and inclusive decision-making, integrating ecological and qualitative data to bridge research and practice. The findings underscore the importance of green spaces as symbolic anchors for sustainability transitions. The proposal invites reflection on the transformative potential of universities and the co-development of pathways toward greener, more inclusive academic environments. Universities are envisioned as "living laboratories" where innovative practices can be tested and scaled.

ABSTRACT. Twin transitions emerged as a response from policy and research to the pressing problem of climate change. By combining efforts to shift toward a digitalized and sustainable future, these transitions require systemic approaches and transdisciplinary thinking to be realized. However, several practical difficulties increase the levels of uncertainty associated with twining the two transitions. In this study, building upon the experience of an ongoing project that aims to facilitate and expedite twin transitions of agrifood systems, we present the critical steps for architecting the transitional process. Forming a micro-ecosystem of actors who co-innovate toward sustainability is the basis of twin transitions. A process of co-designing paths to a more sustainable future through ideating and envisioning possible futures follows. Then, by engaging in guided anticipation activities, the actors evaluate and choose digital technologies that can enable the pursuit of sustainable and digital futures. Parallel to all these steps, intense up- and re-skilling mechanisms should operate, facilitating the cultivation of skills necessary to extract value from digital technologies, achieve sustainability targets, and build personal and systemic resilience.

ABSTRACT. The accelerating climate crisis is not only an environmental emergency but also a profound psychological one. Increasing numbers of people are experiencing emotions such as grief, anxiety, guilt, and despair in response to ecological degradation—a phenomenon now widely recognized as eco-anxiety. These emotional responses reflect an emerging awareness of our interdependence with the Earth and a deeper sense of planetary belonging. This presentation explores how Ecopsychology- a relatively new field of Psychology- offers a crucial framework for understanding and addressing the emotional dimensions of climate change. By reconnecting individuals with the living world—consciously, emotionally, and experientially—ecopsychology helps transform paralyzing emotions into sources of insight, connection, and action. It offers tools to face the emotional consequences of the climate crisis in ways that empower individuals to take meaningful action for the protection and regeneration of the planet. Voices from Indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon,invited to the International Conference of Ecopsychology in Brazil (July 2025) shared through personal reflections, will be also part of the presentation .Their lived experiences offer invaluable perspectives on relationality, ecological responsibility, and ancestral resilience—reminding us of ways of being that are rooted in deep, reciprocal connection with the Earth. Together, the reflections invite a rethinking of psychological well-being as inseparable from planetary health, and encourage a shift toward a more ecocentric, compassionate, and responsive way of inhabiting the world.

ABSTRACT. Based on a path followed over the last three decades in research and pedagogy on transdisciplinary sustainability this intervention aims to both frame and act as a provocation for the immersive field journey in the living laboratory of Crete embodying themes of innovation, sustainability, and community engagement. Drawing lessons from transdisciplinary research projects including Imagining 2050 (deliberative action research), Dingle 2030 (engaged and co-produced research), Deep Societal Innovation for Sustainability (re-imagining key social institutions) and Just Cities Hub (co-creating climate action on a local level), we will explore various methods and modalities of envisioning and enacting sustainable futures. Equipping researchers and educators for the challenges ahead requires innovative pedagogical approaches and perspectives bridging the global and local, conceptual and contextual, linking social practice and policy in the realm of climate action. Accordingly, we draw on global frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals, complemented by recent literature on inner and outer goals. We will consider lessons from pedagogical practices and paradigms actioned in transdisciplinary sustainability education in UCC, e.g., University Wide Module: Sustainability and Walking the Anthropocene to scaffold the conference participant’s experience.