Summer Schools
Gerhard Jirka Summer School on Environmental Fluid Mechanics - from theory to applications
Juni 11 - 20, 2012, Horw Switzerland
Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) is concerned with the fluid motions and associated mass, heat and momentum transport processes that occur at various scales of the earth’s hydrosphere and atmosphere. The interaction of flows and reactions between the natural and built environments is at the centre of EFM. The School will follow closely the aims and objectives established successfully at the foregoing events held at the Universities of Karlsruhe in 1999 and 2006, Dundee in 2001, Budapest in 2004 and Santiago de Chile in 2009. It will cover the basic theoretical principles underlying a range of environmental flows and their mathematical description. From theory to applications will be a core element of this edition of the School. Selected computational simulation models and examples of engineering design and environmental applications will be demonstrated. The relation to the environmental concerns will be more intensively highlighted than in former courses.
The course is intended for postgraduate students (MSc or PhD candidates), engineers and scientists in industry, government or research institutions involved in environmental engineering, planning or impact prediction.
PhD Summer School on Technological Innovation Systems - TIS 2011
15-19 August, 2011, Hönö, Sweden
In August the summer school TIS 2011 will bring together leading senior scientists from Eawag and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in the field of innovation studies to share their experiences with a small group of PhD students. The course will introduce key concepts of (technological) innovation system studies and its intellectual roots. Recent conceptual and methodological developments will be discussed together with the potentials and limitations of the TIS framework. Key topics include system functions, actor-oriented and institutional analyses, sectorial and spatial contexts, and TIS based policy recommendations. For a broad range of empirical cases it will be discussed how the framework(s) can be applied in practice and how TIS analyses can be used to inform innovation policy and strategy.
Lecture topics
- 20 years of TIS research – major lessons, achievements, open issues
- TIS, boundaries and context: How different sectors and technologies interact
- Institutional analysis of TIS
- TIS in a spatial context
- Actor strategies in TIS
- TIS and sustainability transitions
- TIS as a tool for policy analysis: experiences, strengths and weaknesses
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