On 7-11 July Professor Elena Korosteleva was invited to Uzbekistan in the capacity of electoral observer. She observed elections in Samarkand, on Sunday 9 July, having visited 5 polling stations, engaged in conversations with citizens, political parties’ observers, and members of the electoral commission. She further spoke to the Chairman of the Electoral Commission in Samarkand, passing her feedback and observations.

University of Warwick welcomes a delegation from Universitas Gadjah Mada today.

The University of Warwick welcomed its first cohort of early career researchers to its newly developed Sustainability Training School (warwick.ac.uk). The training school was created by the university’s Institute for Global Sustainable Development (warwick.ac.uk)in partnership with EUTOPIA (warwick.ac.uk), a university alliance that brings together 10 European universities, including GUILD, Monash Alliance and UN SDSN UK.

The ECR STS 1.0 pioneered a transdisciplinary way of training the next generation of scientists to work conjointly towards solving global planetary problems. This year’s focus was ‘Resilience and Sustainable Development’.

On Monday 3rd July, Dr Vangelis Pitidis was invited to present his insights and experience in conducting interdisciplinary research with PhD students from across the University of Warwick, in the context of Day 1 of the Doctoral College FestivalLink opens in a new window that takes place between 3-4 July at Faculty of Arts Building. Dr Pitidis's presentation 'Tackling global sustainability challenges with interdisciplinary skills' focused on personal interpretations of interdisciplinary research as well as challenges in conducting such research on the field, providing a short summary of previous interdisciplinary projects in the Global South Dr Pitidis has participated in.

This two day workshop led by Dr.Vangelis Pitidis was attended by academics and policy makers from UK, Greece and Brazil. It focused on the co-production of knowledge with communities through the process of dialogue built on trust building, reciprocity and co-creation. The key goal of this workshop is to bring in multiple stakeholders to influence policy at the local level first.

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