CoLabs
As part of the CoLabs, researchers from the COLOURS partner universities and stakeholders from the participating European regions work together on current social challenges. The aim is to bring together people from research and education, business and industry, public administration, politics and civil society in order to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. The Alliance has identified the fields of health and well-being, food production, green transition, IT and digitalisation as overarching topics. The individual CoLab events will jointly develop viable solutions for these current topics.
June 24.-26.: CoLab "Communicating Green Transitions"
At the CoLab event ‘Communicating Green Transitions’, challenges in communication on sustainability topics will be analysed and solutions for target group-oriented information exchange and greater acceptance of the complex topic of sustainability will be developed.
The CoLab analyses current communication on topics such as ecological change, transport and mobility and develops solutions to improve communication strategies in these contexts. The participants will address the following challenges in various workshops:
- How can effective communication best contribute to increasing social acceptance of green change?
- In addition to raising awareness, how can we also encourage action and promote behavioural change in society in order to shape the green transition in a lasting and sustainable way?
- What ways are there to communicate complex and uncertain scientific findings and research results on green transition, transport and mobility?
- How can we counter false narratives, misinformation and fake news in connection with the green transition?
- What role do popularisation and content marketing play in this context?
- How can we best address negative impacts of the green transition and address potential dissatisfaction of those affected?
- And how can we best talk about the winners and losers of the green transition and recognise the real social and economic challenges without relying on arguments of perceived moral superiority?
Due to its international focus and international guests, the event will be held in English.
You can register for the CoLab “Communicating Green Transitions” via the following link: Register here
Past CoLabs
What?
The CoLab analysed the connection between body image, physical activity and mental health and developed solutions for greater body satisfaction in the context of sport, society and the media.
Further information can be found in our flyer and the programme schedule.
When?
29 - 31 October at the UPB
Where?
AStA Stadtcampus, K?nigsplatz 1, 33098 Paderborn
Who?
The event was aimed at all researchers, students and employees of UPB as well as all interested parties from civil society, business, politics and administration in the OWL region who work on this topic and would like to network with European partners on this topic.
Representatives of our European partners from the University of Kristianstad (Sweden) and the Josip Jurai Strossmayer University of Osijek (Croatia) took part in the CoLab. The event was held in English.
Registration
You were welcome to register by 30 September at the following email address: cospace.colours@uni-paderborn.de
