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“Ecology, Politics, and Justice: Working Towards the Pluriverse”

 June 16 – 19, 2025, University of Mons, Belgium

Supported by COHE

 

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European College of Human Ecology

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Presse release
of the COHE owners 2024,
November 15th

COHE will actively support the 26th International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology.

More information about our active participation will follow here soon.

Further information can be found on the website of the 26. Conference of the Society for Human Ecology.

 

Berlin & Zurich, 2024, November 15th

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Facing the Future - Human Ecology and Higher Education

The publication of selected European articles from the conference "Facing the Future - Human Ecology and Higher Education" is well advanced and is expected to appear in a special issue of Human Ecology Review in early 2025.

A further publication project with international contributions on the topic of the conference is in preparation.

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European Human Ecology Network

The associates of the College support the conference's call for a European Human Ecology Network and have decided to actively support such initiatives with their resources. The College is organizing a series of virtual meetings in collaboration with Iva Pires, Head of the Human Ecology Master Program at Nova University Lisbon, and the Society for Human Ecology.
(If you are interested, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

 

 

- Quite Recently -

 

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Since December 12, 2022, the recordings of the presentations and contributions of the Potsdam Conference "Facing the Future - Human Ecology and Higher Education" are publicly available on our website as a virtual conference for a broad audience.

Click here for the virtual conference.

 

From August 31 to September 3, 2022, the international conference "Facing the Future: Human Ecology and Higher Education" took place in Potsdam live and online simultaneously.

Together with the Potsdam "Institute for Advanced Sustainable Studies" IASS and other partner organizations, we took a critical look at future higher education. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in our conference and especially those who were still there on Saturday afternoon.


Please read


further information here

 

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- Past -

 

On August 20, 2021, the international online program."Human Ecology - Basic Knowledge for Agents of Transition"
was opened with an online conference. The contributions at the conference can be found here as

Conference Recording

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Since August 20, 2021 a number of presentations and lectures are already available on our website.
If required, we will be happy to offer online workshops, forums and seminars. We are looking forward to further contributions, lectures and presentations.

Please use the gateway for the Online Program 2021.

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Volume 1 has been published by oekom-Verlag in the series of publications of the European College of Human Ecology.

Pflegt der Stadt Bestes

(Caring for the City's Best)

demonstrates the experiences and results of a Berlin real world laboratory of human ecology. What must buildings, neighborhoods, cities and people be able to do in the future to withstand the challenges - to keep damage small and values large? What qualifications and competencies are needed to future-proof our structural-technical systems and our user behavior?

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COHE was involved in two new research projects.

DiDaT explores the unseens of digitization under the leadership of the IASS in Potsdam and concludes with the publication of a white paper in March 2021.

The wind-climate-cooling tower project picks up on the students' idea from the 2018 summer program.

Read more in the Research menu.

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On May 21, 2020, the managing directors of the university presented the draft for a new Master's program "Human Ecology and Philosophy of Social Innovation" during a videoconference on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Society for Human Ecology.

The draft and further development of the MA program will be presented here.

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