On Thursday the 10th of October 2024 the final dissemination event of our project ATTUNE – Activate the University for Climate Change, was held at the University of Hildesheim (Germany).
The event opened with a speech by the Professor Dr. May-Britt Kallenrode, President of the University of Hildesheim, who defined ATTUNE as “a very good example of facing a global challenge and trying to do locally the right thing to work against climate change. An important project especially for students because it shows that not only we are facing a big challenge but we can also learn that we can do something, we learn about self-efficiency.”
Then Carlos Oppe, president of GAP Spain (project coordinator), gave an overview of the project and its results to all the participants, and we deepened one of the core points of our project: Why is it important to work from universities to tackle climate change?
Before going into details about the experience of the participating universities, 4 students from the Italian Research Action Teams showed all the great actions they implemented at the University of Siena.
Then University of Siena, University of Hildesheim, University of the Basque Country, Özyeğin University and Maria Grzegorzewska University shared their two years’ experience of participation in the project, the positive outcomes and satisfactions but also the difficulties and how they overcame them.
Lastly, the ATTUNE journey was presented step by step by Barbara Grazzini from InEuropa and Adamina Korwin-Szymanovska from Maria Grzegorzewska University, in order to give a clearer explanation and idea on how the ATTUNE Programme can be easily implemented by any other university.
Visit the ATTUNE project website to view the presentations and recordings of the event.
