Dilemmas in Climate Change
Offer to upper secondary schools: A cross-disciplinary climate debate between students and a 'panel of experts' consisting of university students
Project description
A panel of students from University of Copenhagen enters the upper secondary schools, and they hold a climate conference of three hours, where they are to disseminate the newest climate research, which has been up for debate during 2009 and until COP15 was held in Copenhagen. The student panel is in close contact to climate scientists and experts from Copenhagen. The students act as an alter ego of an expert in climate research during the conference at the upper secondary schools.
The climate conferences can be a part of a cross-disciplinary programme, e.g. general study preparation, natural science subjects, or specialised study programme.
Report from project (in Danish):
- Klimaforandringernes dilemmaer i lyset af COP15 [pdf, 755 KB]
Conferences in February and March 2010
Geo-engineering - Is manipulation of our climate the solution? Cross-disciplinary climate conference in the light of COP 15
- February 23, 2010: Frederiksværk Gymnasium & HF
- March 8, 2010: Øregård Gymnasium
- March 9, 2010: Det Fri Gymnasium
- March 10, 2010: Næstved Gymnasium & HF
Participants from DSE
Hanne Lillemose Sørensen, responsible for project
Christine Holm, consultant
Student panel
Jakob A. S. Meyer, Nanoscience, SCIENCE - "Ole Bøssing Christensen"
Jesper Svensgaard, Natural resources, LIFE - "Ole Bøssing Christensen"
Cathrine Ulla Jensen, Natural resources, LIFE - "Katherine Richardson"
Tone Sorento Drøhse, Geology - geoscience, SCIENCE - "Christian Gamborg"
Bjarke Elling Jørgensen, Naturressourcer, LIFE - "Ole Wæver"
Per Andersen, Physics, SCIENCE - "Dorthe Dahl-Jensen"
Marie Lohmann-Jensen, Biology, SCIENCE - "Tarjei Haaland"
Expert group
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor in physics at Niels Bohr Institute. Head of the basic research Centre for Ice and Climate, SCIENCE
Ole Wæver, Professor in international politics at Department of Political Science &
manager of the research centre CAST, Centre for Advanced Security Theory, SAMF
Christian Gamborg, Senior researcher at Forest & Landscape. Attached to the cross-disciplinary research centre CeBRA, Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, LIFE
Katherine Richardson. Associate dean for dissemination at the Faculty of Science, professor in biological oceanography, SCIENCE
Ole Bøssing Christensen, Senior researcher at DMI and manager of the international climate research co-operations; PRUDENCE, CECILIA and EMSEMBLES
Tarjei Haaland, energy and climate employee in Greenpeace.
Resource persons
Kjeld Rasmussen, Department of Geography and Geology, SCIENCE
Lykke Thostrup, communications division, LIFE
Ole John Nielsen, Department of Chemistry, SCIENCE
Project duration
February 2009 - May 2010