Climate Change Inequalities: Challenge-Based Projects

This course involves applying the knowledge acquired especially in the courses that run in semester 1a of the Climate Change and Inequality minor - Global Inequality and Climate Change: Themes and Approaches (10 ECTS), and Environment and Development (5 ECTS) - to a real-world, challenge-based research project.

Students work in interdisciplinary teams to address a problem for genuine stakeholders, utilising their knowledge about inequality related to climate change. The themes for the real-world challenges to be addressed in their projects will be provided in collaboration with partner organisations beyond university, and will in the starting phase of the minor be focused on two multi-country regions with different ranges of climate-change related inequality issues which have been already introduced as special-focus regions in the foundational course: The North Sea and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In both of these regions, the minor coordinators have established relationships with international organisations that work at the forefront of tracing and addressing social, political and economic climate-change related issues. The students do not have to make connections with these organisations themselves. During the research project students learn about what interdisciplinary collaboration entails and how to pursue it successfully. Each student team will analyse the challenge given to them, develop suggested solutions to the challenge, and then deliver a final report and a presentation about the solution(s) to the challenge about inequality related to climate change they investigated.