Past Activities and Results

2024

Workshop on innovative teaching formats at House of Academies (12 June 2024)

We facilitated exchanges between lecturers of HEIs in Switzerland who already use or are interested in using innovative teaching formats for science-society dialogue. This was done through a network-building workshop organized in June 2024 at the House of Academies in Bern. The workshop brought together 28 lecturers from different disciplines and institutions across Switzerland and fostered exchanges about innovative teaching methods. Furthermore, it helped us identify the opportunities, challenges, and ways to move forward with innovative teaching courses at the science society interface. The graphic recording of the session allowed us to concretely visualize each of these for further use.

Workshop “Innovating teaching at the science-society interface – opportunities, barriers, and ways forward” (23 October 2024)

We organized a workshop for young lecturers in Swiss higher education institutions at the event “Transforming our university teaching towards sustainability”, which was organized together by WWF Switzerland, Wissenschaft schafft Zukünfte, Sustainable Development Solutions Network SDSN, and Swiss Young Academy.

Preparation of report

We have also been working on a stocktake and mapping of existing innovative courses at the science-society interface in Swiss HEIs, which led to the development of a typology of such formats. A report about our findings is in the making and will be published in 2025.