Risk awareness, response scenarios, resolutions.
Let's talk about global change.
This overarching motto inspired also the sixth Forster Summer School at our Faculty from 04.07.-15.07.2025. As a short-term Blended intensive program (BIP) the summer school included a virtual component and a physical mobility at JGU Mainz.
25 students from our FORTHEM Alliance and ERASMUS+ partner universities University of Burgundy, University of Jyväskylä, University of Palermo, University of Valencia, Charles University and JGU took part in the international and interdisciplinary event.
TOPIC
Forster Summer School 2025 was dedicated to the research topic "resilience" entitled "Forster Summer School explores – resilience in times of global crisis. Risk awareness, response scenarios, resolutions.” The world, our planet Earth, is currently exposed to extreme events such as climate change, natural disasters, loss of biodiversity, scarcity of resources, uncontrolled artificial intelligence, technology and power failures, anti-democratic tendencies and war.
How can we face these planetary transformations or global crisis? How can we be better prepared? What makes individuals, societies and systems more resilient in emergencies?
These and similar research questions and conceptualizations of the term “resilience” were addressed by psychological disciplines as well as natural, social and technically applied sciences during the 12-days summer school. In different kind of settings (talks, workshops, scientific excursions), the students discovered and discussed current discourses and scientific perspectives on resilience. In the research areas of sustainable natural product chemistry, food environments, healthcare, (global) drug supply, pandemic preparedness, education and (geography) didactics, geological hazards such as earthquakes, crisis and disaster management or (regenerative) energy production, the students identified resilience factors and resilience mechanisms to decipher the adaptation processes.
Scientific, cultural, sports and linguistic program
The program had a lot to offer and was a colorful mix of exciting expert talks, lively discussions, hands-on activities, scientific visits, and inspiring excursions
We are looking forward to your application for Forster Summer School 2026!