Engaged UniBE

Engaged UniBE brings people, knowledge, and ideas together – let's shaped the future together!

The University of Bern embraces its responsibility: Together with society, we are shaping a sustainable future. Engaged UniBE is the platform that brings people, ideas, and commitment together. Get involved now!

What we do

Dialogue & Collaboration

Engaged UniBE brings together people from academia, society, politics, and business.
We create a platform for exchange, make engagement visible, and open up spaces for genuine dialogue and forward-looking ideas.

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Projects & Living Labs

Engaged UniBE supports transdisciplinary projects and real-world experiments that can serve as the foundation for Living Labs, aiming to spark sustainable development both within and beyond the university.
Together with our partners, we promote and accompany initiatives that translate scientific knowledge into concrete, forward-looking action.

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Innovation & Collaborative Learning

We foster a culture of creative innovation: Here, the university and society co-develop new ideas, formats, and skills to actively shape the sustainable transformation.

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News and Events

June 30, 2025

08:30 − 15:00

Universität Zürich

RealTransform

Workshop RealTransform: A University Culture for Sustainability

How can universities create spaces where a sustainable future is shaped through transdisciplinary and participatory collaboration – together with researchers, administration, students, and society?
These are exactly the questions addressed in the public workshop as part of the RealTransform project, which offers space for inspiration, exchange, and co-creation.

Tu Fr

September 9, 2025

until September 12, 2025

09:00 − 15:00

Bern

Summer School

Summer School in Design Thinking: Turning Ideas into Local Solutions

From September 8 to 12, 2025, you’ll work in a team with other students on real societal challenges submitted by local organizations – hands-on, creative, and with real impact.

Interested? Registration opens on May 30, 2025, via KSL.

October 22, 2025

17:45 − 20:00

Altes Pfarrhaus, Thunstrasse 96, 3074 Muri

Wissenschaftsapéro

«Sustainability transformations: From knowledge to action» featuring Professor Dr. Peter Messerli of the Wyss Academy for Nature

Publications

Roles of Scientists in Sustainability Transformations

A Guide for Reflection and Workshop Facilitation.
Scientists, scientific experts, and knowledge brokers often find themselves in situations where they need to play new roles in society or are criticised for positioning themselves at the interface between science and other societal fields of action. The present guide aims to stimulate reflections on, and discussions of, various different roles that scientists perform.

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University of Bern
Vizerektorat Qualität und Nachhaltige Entwicklung

Hochschulstrasse 6
3012 Bern

Engaged UniBE

Engaged UniBE brings people, knowledge, and ideas together – let's shaped the future together!

What we do

Dialogue & Collaboration

Projects & Living Labs

Innovation & Collaborative Learning

News and Events

Workshop RealTransform: A University Culture for Sustainability

Summer School in Design Thinking: Turning Ideas into Local Solutions

«Sustainability transformations: From knowledge to action» featuring Professor Dr. Peter Messerli of the Wyss Academy for Nature

Roles of Scientists in Sustainability Transformations

Contact

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