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Dialogue & Collaboration

Change starts through open conversation.

Got ideas for collaborations or new formats? → Get in touch with us right here!

Citizen Science Bern

Co-Creating Knowledge

Citizen Science thrives on dialogue: researchers and citizens engage as equals. Whether it's biodiversity research in local neighborhoods, climate monitoring, or participatory urban development – Citizen Science empowers citizens to actively contribute to research. Engaged UniBE supports such co-creative formats through transdisciplinary projects and real-world experiments.

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Citizen Science at UniBE – Looking for a Contact Person?

Citizen Science – the active involvement of citizens in research processes – is gaining increasing importance at the University of Bern. We are currently working on gaining an overview of existing activities.

If you are already conducting Citizen Science projects, are interested in this field, or are seeking support, we would be happy to hear from you.

Your contact person:
Daphne Bucher
Engaged UniBE
daphne.bucher@unibe.ch

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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