The 2025 SOS4CC - SOcial Sciences 4 Climate Change conference "From Knowledge to Action" will take place in Eurac Research, Bolzano, on 04-05.09.2025
04-05.09.2025
2025 SOS4CC - SOcial Sciences 4 Climate Change. From Knowledge to Action
- Date: 04-05.09.2025
- Typology: International Conference
The SOS4CC Book of Abstract is now available!
We are happy to announce that the Book of Abstract is now available at this link: https://doi.org/10.57749/2J1M-AK45
Theme
Agenda Day 1 | 04.09.2025
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:00
18:00 - 19:30
19:30 - 21:00
Agenda Day 2 | 05.09.2025
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11.30
11:30 - 13:00
13:00 – 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00
Keynote Speakers
Beatriz Felipe Pérez
Beatriz Felipe Pérez works at the research cooperative CICrA Justicia Ambiental in Barcelona. She specializes in the legal and multidisciplinary analysis of climate-induced mobilities. With a master’s in environmental law and a PhD in Law (from Univesitat Rovira i Virgili), she connects climate science, global justice, and law. Her works explore the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation and human mobility from different perspectives.
Giuseppe Feola
Giuseppe Feola is Associate Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research investigates the social-, cultural- and political-ecological (i) conditions, (ii) mechanisms, and (iii) consequences of sustainability transformations. He is primarily interested in grassroots and community-led transformations towards social and economic models that, not depending on perpetual economic growth, aim to sustain human wellbeing and the ecological basis of life. His research has a geographical focus on Europe and Latin America (especially Colombia), and a thematic focus on agri-food systems and climate change.
Christian Kuhlicke
Christian Kuhlicke heads the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany and is Professor of Environmental Risks and Sustainability at the University of Potsdam. With his background in human geography his research focuses adaptive behavior, community resilience and social vulnerability. He is engaged in various transdisciplinary activities, including supporting communities in rebuilding better after the 2021 flood event in Western Germany and co-developing drought risk management strategies with policy-makers.
Activities and Events
From Knowledge to Action: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Cooperation for DRR and Climate Change Adaptation
This event invites participants to reflect on the value of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches in the fields of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. Throughout the day, we will explore how collaborative efforts between natural and social sciences can enhance our understanding of — and responses to — the complex challenges facing our natural-human systems. Discussions will also focus on collective decision-making processes, examining how individual beliefs shape collective choices and how cooperation between public institutions and citizens can foster more resilient communities. Theoretical insights on these core themes will be paired with empirical examples and real-world cases to inspire practical reflection and dialogue. More information about the event in the document below.
Theater performance - Change the Climate
Monitoring alpine glaciers, expeditions in caves, observation of the athletic performances of fishes, mobile labs, rain simulators, green surfaces: a performance standing between conference and theater to discover how scientific research and engineering contribute to face the challenges of climate change. Change the climate is a performance designed within the project climate_change@polito project by Faber Teater in cooperation with the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering of Turin Polytechnic. More information about the performance in the document below.
Book dialogue: Barbara Dombrowski in discussion with Beatriz Felipe Pérez
Photographer Barbara Dombrowski shares the spiritual and artistic journey behind her project Tropic Ice in a dialogue with Dr. Beatriz Felipe Vargas. In this dialogue, photographer Barbara documents five indigenous communities across continents impacted by climate change. Through their stories, she explores themes of loss, displacement, and resilience. The conversation weaves her visual narratives with academic reflections on climate (im)mobilities, extractivism, and indigenous rights. The result is a powerful exchange linking personal experience, visual storytelling, academic reflections.
Barbara Dombrowski
Barbara Dombrowski is a German photographer based in Hamburg. After studying visual communication in Dortmund and spending four years in Paris on an art scholarship, she developed a career focused on long-term documentary projects. Her main work, Tropic Ice – Dialogue between Places Affected by Climate Change, connects climate-impacted regions across the globe through photography and multimedia exhibitions. She collaborates with universities, NGOs, and institutions, and regularly teaches, lectures, and curates. Her work has been awarded internationally and published, most recently in the book Tropic Ice (2024). She is a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh).
FLUX river interventions and explorations with Lungomare
PaFLUX is a long-term Lungomare project that explores the riverscapes of Bolzano in collaboration with artists, designers, researchers, and residents. Through workshops, conversations, walks, performances, temporary exhibitions, and artistic interventions along the urban riverfront, the project reveals the hidden potential of these landscapes and invites collective reflection on how they might be transformed. Through actions and artistic projects, FLUX encourages people to become active participants in ecological transformation. During the excursion, participants will be introduced to the FLUX-Glossary – a living collection of concepts and evolving definitions drawn from the project’s actions, art interventions, and experiments. As a relational tool, the glossary encourages group discussion and opens space for diverse, engaging forms of dialogue about the present realities as well as the transformations and futures of our urban riverscapes.
Participation is limited to 15 people. More information about the excursion in the document below.
Venue
The conference took place from September 4th to 5th, 2025, at Eurac Research in Bolzano.
Contact Information
For inquiries or further information, please contact SOS4CC@eurac.edu. We look forward to your contributions that will enrich our understanding of how social science can inform effective responses to climate change challenges.
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