Symposium on Climate Change Education & Communication at SGM 2025 in Bern

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«Climate Change Education and Communication»
23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting – Conference

Johanna Paschen, PhD of the EcoArtLab, is co-convening the 23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting on «Climate Change Education and Communication», taking place in Bern on Saturday, 6 December 2025.

Despite high levels of public awareness about anthropogenic climate change and increasing pressure on the political sphere, climate action among large parts of the general public still remains relatively low. So, what are the individual and societal preconditions, factors, and mechanisms that facilitate or prevent action on climate change among different segments of the population? And what are the potentials and limitations for climate change education and communication efforts? Here, various disciplines within the educational, psychological, social and climate sciences, as well as humanities can provide the theoretical and practical instruments to understand public engagement with climate change.

This session aims to provide multiple perspectives into the challenges and opportunities of climate change communication and education. Inviting contributions from a broad range of disciplines (e.g., education, psychology, communication, public understanding of science, humanities, social and natural sciences, arts, artistic research), this session focuses on the perception, processing, communication, application, learning, and education of climate information and knowledge. Talks or posters may relate to all approaches (e.g., theoretical and practical, quantitative and qualitative), scales (e.g., local, national, global), and age levels (e.g., children, adolescents, adults).

Talks or posters may relate to all approaches (e.g., theoretical and practical, quantitative and qualitative), scales (e.g., local, national, global), and age levels (e.g., children, adolescents, adults). We encourage contributions from young scientists (Master- or PhD-projects), while interdisciplinary projects are especially welcomed too.


        Call for abstracts       
Deadline for submissions: Firday, 29. August 2025
Abstracts will be initially assigned to the session indicated by the authors at the time of abstract submission. Abstracts should be submitted electronically following the instructions on the SGM 2025 website.
Unfortunately, presentations can only be given in person.


        Registration       
Until Saturday 1 November 2025(open from beginning of September on).
Registration and payments must be made electronically following the instructions on the SGM 2025 website