Man-made climate change and its global impacts are a challenge for the 21st century. The systems governing the world's climate are physically complex, and informing others about climate change and its mitigation or the foreseeable adaptations it will cause requires a fundamental knowledge of system dynamics. Skilled young professionals with up-to-date knowledge on these aspects are in high demand by both public and private enterprises. 

The objectives of the CLIMAST project are to create a network of higher education institutions involved in climate sciences and to develop and present studies and projects to address the need for expert teaching. The network will focus its efforts on the provision of high-level knowledge training in climate science as well as including aspects of social science in the context of the Mediterranean area. The CLIMAST courses will help to develop its students into engaged and informed professionals who are able to take part fully in climate negotiations and to develop meaningful and considered ways to face this, perhaps the most pressing issue of our modern society.

This virtual short course aims to cover the following objectives:

- to provide a global understanding of climate change: causes, effects and processes
- to identify the difference of perceptions and understanding according to scientific background, to culture, to experience
- to evaluate the challenge to obtain a common result/consensus in a short term
- teamwork on the range of possible actions, identify the conditions of success of an action addressing climate change
- to understand the role of the scientist expert today
- to measure the importance of communication and dissemination of scientific knowledge
- to identify the levers and obstacle for actions at individual and collective levels

21 Master's and PhD students from Spain, Italy and France

The official course language will be English

Laurence Vidal (AMU, CEREGE, Earth and Climate Sciences, project leader)
Raquel Bertoldo-Bohn (AMU, social psychology, co-leader of the project)
Delphine Caron (facilitator, Accolades, co-leader of the project)

With the assistance of animators for the Climate Collage:

Iris Farrugia
Corinne Dos Santos
Sheila Suarez-Flores 

Joel Guiot (CEREGE, co-coordinator MedeCC, climate expert)
Piero Lionello (Univ. Salento, PI MedClivar, climate expert)
Guillaume Leduc (CEREGE, paleoclimate researcher)
Julie Gattacceca (environmental scientist, member of Grec-sud)
Anna Perez Catala (environmental scientist, journalist, Climate Tracker)