C-Urge: Anthropology of Global Climate Urgency

本DN的总体目标是应对欧洲研究委员会和资助机构以及政府，公众和学生日益增长的紧迫性，即社会科学应有助于我们对气候变化的理解和参与。我们认为，采取紧急行动的必要性要求社会科学关注“紧迫性”本身的概念。我们希望培养博士生了解不同的看法对环境和气候的紧迫性，其时间性，以及这些理解可能具有的政治和环境影响。10名博士生将在非洲，拉丁美洲，亚洲或欧洲进行人种学研究。研究人员将在传播科学发现或在政治或发展相关背景下工作的组织中获得非学术可转移技能。来自5所欧洲大学（鲁汶大学，爱丁堡大学，哈雷大学，乌普萨拉大学和卡塔尼亚大学）的专家与6个非学术合作伙伴和10名跨学科顾问委员会成员合作，以确保10名博士候选人将获得学术界和学术界以外的良好培训机会。这确保了一批年轻专家的形成，他们将能够为应对气候变化的破坏性影响作出贡献。C-urge响应《欧洲气候公约》中的邀请，连接和分享有关气候变化的知识，并制定、实施和扩大可能的解决方案，并提供一种定性、创新、多部门和跨学科的方法，以应对全球气候变化引发的不同程度的紧迫性。C-urge产生的实地见解和知识将最终加强欧洲政策，创新和应对气候变化及其对地球仪的影响。

The overarching objective of this DN is to respond to a growing urgency expressed by European research councils and funding agencies, as well as by governments, publics and students, that the social sciences should contribute to our understanding of and engagement with climate change. We propose that the need for urgent action demands that social science attends to the notion of 'urgency' itself. We want to train doctoral candidates in understanding different perceptions on environmental and climatological urgency, their temporalities, and the political and environmental implications these understandings may have. 10 PhD students will carry out ethnographic research in Africa, Latin-America, Asia or Europe. The researchers will gain non-academic transferable skills in organisations that either disseminate scientific findings, or that work in political or development-related contexts. Experts of 5 European universities (KU Leuven University, University of Edinburgh, Halle University, Uppsala University, and the University of Catania) team up with 6 non-academic partners, and 10 members of the interdisciplinary advisory board in order to ensure that the 10 PhD candidates will receive excellent training opportunities both in academia and outside academia. This ensures the formation of a cohort of junior experts who will be able to contribute to the struggle against the disruptive effects of climate change. C-urge responds to the invitation described in the European Climate Pact to connect and share knowledge about climate change as well as develop, implement and scale up possible solutions and offers a qualitative, innovative, multi-sectoral as well as trans-disciplinary approach to the various degrees of urgency that global climate change inspires. The on-the-ground insights and knowledge that C-urge produces will ultimately strengthen European policy, innovation and responsiveness to climate change and its impacts across the globe.