Climate Crisis 3/3 with Janet Hering - How to move research out of the lab into practice
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How collaboration across disciplines and outside academia is needed to address climate change
In this episode, Janet Hering, former Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL), shares her experience on leading a research center and working at the interface between science and policy.
Learn how interdisciplinary research is needed to address climate change and its consequences, and how universities need to change to encourage collaborations between researchers and outside academia to have a practical impact.
Listen to Janet talk about her work at the interface between politics and science, the role of scientific institutions in society, how to include citizens in policy-making, and the power of young generations.
For more information, visit the Eawag website, follow Janet on bluesky and LinkedIn, read her publications or read her blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog.
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