PARATUS kick-off meeting

PARATUS kick-off meeting

PRARATUS projects officially started in Enschede at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente. Michalina Kułakowska took part in the kick-off meeting in the middle of October 2022. The PARATUS project aims to...

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Energy Transition Game: workshop for AGH

Energy Transition Game: workshop for AGH

In early October we conducted a workshop for teachers at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. We presented the Energy Transition Game – a tool that academics can incorporate...

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Future of Food at the UNGA77 Science Summit

Future of Food at the UNGA77 Science Summit

In late September, we held two sessions at the UNGA77 Science Summit: the Cascading Climate Impacts: Future of Food Simulation and a panel on “Navigating complexity, certainty and ambiguity: new forms of science-policy interface”. The session was organised in...

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Education to Citizenship kick-off

Education to Citizenship kick-off

At the beginning of September 2022, Michalina Kulakowska took part in a kick-off meeting for the Education to Citizenship project. During the meeting in Katowice, Michalina met with project partners from Norway - the Phronesis SA, and from Polish...

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Science and Diplomacy: bridging a gap between science and policy

Science and Diplomacy: bridging a gap between science and policy

On July 28, our team led the Future of Food simulation during an online Science and Diplomacy course organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The participants, pairs consisting...

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Games in education: the role of games in teaching participation and social change in urban and rural areas

Games in education: the role of games in teaching participation and social change in urban and rural areas

Early July, we joined the conference “Game – Activate – Together. The use of gaming in social participation” in the Utopia Home - International Empathy Centre in Kraków. One of the events during the conference was a panel session...

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Annual retreat: time to plan strategies for another year filled with projects

Annual retreat: time to plan strategies for another year filled with projects

We are more than happy to say that this year Centre For Systems Solutions team grew to the size we have not anticipated: there are now 17 team members – each one a specialist in a different field. We...

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New simulation design framework presented at the IIASA Scenario Forum

New simulation design framework presented at the IIASA Scenario Forum

Piotr Magnuszewski presented a new framework for scenario design using social simulations at the Scenarios Forum session on Social Simulations for Exploring Sustainable Futures. 5 Steps Approach: scenario design through social simulations Scenario design serves as a basis for taking actions...

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Making Europe’s Future Sustainable: we are part of yet another Erasmus+ project

Making Europe’s Future Sustainable: we are part of yet another Erasmus+ project

The kick of meeting of Making Europe's Future Sustainable project took place in Vienna on June 20. The initiative financed under the Erasmus + program is aimed at youth (aged 14-19 years) and their teachers. It assumes the creation of...

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RURITAGE Simulation at the Future Scenario Workshop organized by UNESCO

RURITAGE Simulation at the Future Scenario Workshop organized by UNESCO

On June 9 and 10, Piotr Magnuszewski and Noam Obermeister held a RURITAGE simulation session at the Future Scenario Workshop at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. During the RURITAGE conference, practitioners and international experts on rural development, local communities implementing...

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