Days: Thursday, September 11th Friday, September 12th
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Hybrid event taken place at the Conference Center of Mediterranean Agronomique Institute of Chania (https://confer.maich.gr/halls/index.html)
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Alsyllio Agrokipiou, 1 Makedonias, Chania, 73100
Topic: CA-21166 Management Committee MeetingTime: Sep 11, 2025 09:00 Athens
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| 11:30 | Facing the Climate Crisis – Much more than an environmental issue (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Title: Reimagining Resilience through Living Laboratories: Integrating Transdisciplinary Approaches in Northern Greece’s Biosphere Reserves and Geoparks (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Beyond Symbolic Inclusion: Advancing Participatory Governance in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve. (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Sensing sport ecology: Feeling climate action through modern conceptions of sport. (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Cycling to Care (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Arts of Healing: Creative Practices for Just Urban Transitions (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Carol |
| 15:15 | Fostering Climate Resilience Through Culture: the case study of CineEco - International Environmental Film Festival of Serra da Estrela (abstract) |
| 14:30 | The Potential of Literary Works for Achieving Sustainability Literacy (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Citizen Art: A Climate Sphere augments our realities (abstract)  PRESENTER: Gerhard Knolmayer |
| 15:00 | Rethinking Resilience: From Placation to Externalization (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Enabling Conditions for Meaningful SSH Integration in Climate Research: Research and Innovation Agenda for FP10 (abstract) PRESENTER: Vojtěch Gerlich |
| 15:30 | A City Tailored to Man: Humanistic Marxism and Urban Environmental Discourse in Yugoslavia (abstract) |
| 15:45 | Reevaluating Sustainable Development Goals and the European Climate Policies that influence the cities, through the Lens of the Doughnut Model. (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Peteinaki |
| 14:30 | Sustainable Ties? A glance at Children–Animal relations in Rural inland Portugal (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Learning Forward: Integral Ecology as a Paradigmatic Framework for IPE (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Basic pillars of knowledge co-creation as potential solutions to main barriers and challenges of transdisciplinary projects (abstract) PRESENTER: Simona-Roxana Ulman |
| 15:15 | Rethinking Livestock Systems for Pastoral Resilience under Climate Uncertainty (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Reimagining Universities for Anticipatory Sustainability and Transformative Change (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Twin transitions in agrifood sector: Architecting the process (abstract) PRESENTER: Panagiota Sergaki |
| 17:00 | Facing Climate Change: The Importance of Ecopsychology for Planetary Awareness and Climate-Related Emotional Response (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Tales of Futures Past: What’s the story with transdisciplinary and anticipatory dialogue for climate resilience? (abstract) |
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Facilitators: Catarina Cadima, Didac Ferrer-Balas, Giulia Sonetti
This workshop is an immersive and co-creative experience designed to connect participants with the Samaria Gorge through diverse artistic expressions, exploring its sustainability challenges, and transforming concerns into action. It builds upon the methodology of "Penjant d'un fil" (Hanging by a Thread), a community-based art project initiated in Cala S'Alguer and Espai Mosaik, Barcelona, which used artistic creation to navigate eco-emotions and deepen collective awareness of our relationship with a fragile planet. Then it moves to group creations and discussions about complex challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality. The workshop takes a hands-on creative approach, using collage, clay modelling, drawing and other methods to encourage out-of-the-box engagement with the challenges.
Our purpose is to explore how community-based, imaginative engagement can help to rekindle awareness and foster a sense of community, shared responsibility and protection of such places (essential for the preservation of this environmental and cultural heritage). Through an integrative arts-based workshop, the objective is to promote an open, inclusive space to explore these complex challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality and inspire participants to feel and share grief, hope, and concern for the future of the site. These fantastic places set the stage and allow us to think about how we can make real changes to deal with these problems and explore how we can use the land to test new ideas, listen to the marginalised communities and learn from the land practices and governance models of these territories and the way people live together. Furthermore, it aims to transform the individual's ideas into shared plans, solutions and activities that benefit the community.
The workshop is based on the idea that change begins with awareness and connection. The workshops create a dynamic ecosystem of co-creation by encouraging participants to reflect on their own practices and values and then to share and build on these reflections with others. Also, invites participants to reconsider their role as citizens, and to explore how creativity, empathy, and collaboration can help us meet today's pressing global challenges with resilience and vision. The process values the act of coming together and thinking critically and creatively in a shared space.
Didac Ferrer (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Catarina Cadima (University of Porto, Portugal)
The event is open and free access. It's a hybrid event which takes place at the Center for Mediterranean Architecture, Old Harbour Chania .
Time: Sep 12, 2025 18:00 Athens
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