Published on October 12, 2023
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Updated on December 11, 2023
UniCa invites itself to the COP28...
Discover what our 5 representatives will be doing at COP28
As an observer organisation to the UNFCCC since 2021, Université Côte d’Azur is committed to support member states in the decision-making process, by providing scientific inputs and supporting overall transformation through training and innovation. Université Côte d’Azur wishes to be a proactive actor.To that end, the University decided to commit to different actions ensuring the academic voice will be heard among the decision-makers. To this end, the University, relying on a delegation of 5 representatives, will be participating and contributing to the COP28 through several official UNFCCC events with the U7+ Alliance, RUS, Second Nature, only to name a few University Networks.
Moreover, Université Côte d’Azur will be associated to the Science for Climate Action Pavilion hosted by MERI Foundation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and United Nations World Meteorological Organization, alongside the Centre Scientifique de Monaco. In this context, our representatives will participate to different panels covering topics such as: Health and Climate Change, Role of Higher Education and Research in the decision making process, Ocean and Climate Action, Transforming education to empower youth, etc.
... and the COP invites itself to UniCA !
Since the start of the academic year, the Université Côte d'Azur site has hosted different events to raise awareness on environmental challenges.
From October 13th to mid-January, this dynamic will be reinforced, mirroring COP28, through the organisation of events, round tables and workshops on all the campuses of the site.
Come and check the reports of our Envoyée Spéciale!
During COP28, our Envoyée Spéciale attended multiple side events on different topics chosen by the University Côte d'Azur community. All the reports are available via this link.Meet our representatives
Discover what our scientific community and students have to say !
Convinced that the role of Higher Education and Research institutions must be strengthened in their capacity to be solution providers through social, technological, and public policies innovations, Université Côte d’Azur decided to go beyond an institutional position statement. To do this, the University engaged with its community to publish an Academic Advocacy Collection to support an official position irrigated by research. Over 100 researchers and students contributed to over 30 advocacy pieces.
Download our COP27 Report by clicking on the picture
Upcoming programme
Programme: Follow us from the COP28 and join in the activities organised at UniCA !
The full program can be found here.
LIVE FROM COP28
- UNFCCC Official Events !Check the UNFCCC events Université Côte d'Azur is co-organising or contributing to !
- Live Experts panel from the COPFollow our representatives at the Science Pavilion round tables !
- Envoyé Spécial at COP28 !Vote every day for the event you want the delegation to attend !
- LIVE Questions & Answers from COP28 !!From November 30th to December 12th, send us your questions
- Immersion at the COP !Find out more about the COP with our representatives !
COP @UNICA
- Understand the climate and transition issues, and take action with the Ecoresponsible Mission and OTECCA !For the duration of the COP, come and have a look at our stands held on all campuses !
- Participatory awareness-raising workshops !Follow the ecoresponsible mission's workshops on all the campuses !!
- Discover climate solutions at TedxCannes !On November 24th, three researchers funded by the IdEx will present their work on environmental topics !
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- Sustainable Development
- Research
On November 28th, come and meet Martine Olivi from our COP28 task force, who will explain what a COP is and give us an idea of what can be expected from it. -
- Culture
- IDEX
- Sports - Recreation
Join us for a film-debate at the Variétés cinema on 11 January, with a screening of Soylent Green followed by a discussion on eco-anxiety and a reading of the cherokee tale "The fifth dream".
Advocacy Pieces
- A call for a climate change-centred systematic approach by the BRICS development banks
- ABSolEU - Paving the way for an ABS recycling revolution in the EU
- Assessing the perception of nuclear risk
- Bridging the gap between marine biodiversity conservation and food safety: a one health approach to harmful algal blooms
- Building resilience capabilities to meet challenges induced by climate change
- Climate justice and youth voices
- Designing the SKA Observatory’s supercomputers: maximising science while minimising their environmental impact
- Digital science to contribute to the ecological transition
- Ecological transition: a call to develop a structured network within Université Côte d’Azur for exchanges on education and research
- Encouraging the use of evolutionary biology concepts and ecosystem protection to mitigate climate change causes and consequences in agriculture.
- Energy management, mobility, carbon footprint, holistic approach and social justice
- Environmental migration as economic and non-economic losses: how to meet the cost of inaction
- Gender Inequality in the Face of the Climate Crisis
- Governance issues and dissensus about ‘climate security’ in the United Nations
- Living technologies, a renewed perspective of Deeptech to foster climate and ecological transitions
- OTECCA, a territorial observatory to foster citizen science on socio-ecological transition
- Our advocacy for sustainable seas
- Radioecology, assessing the impact of nuclear activities on marine ecosystems
- Reflections on Forest Fires and Floods in a Context of Rapid Climate and Land Cover Changes
- Student perspectives on environmental transition
- Student Position Paper: POLYTECH Nice - Sophia, Université Côte d’Azur
- The contribution of the LINE laboratory to education on prudent uses of digital technology through the prism of educational innovation
- The Space, Environment, Risk and Resilience Academy, a tool to foster climate change research initiatives
- Urban mobility in the Principality of Monaco. Adaptation and behaviour change as a response to the climate crisis.
- Why is (bio)diversity so important?
- Business Model Innovation for Impact: A methodology
- Climate Fiction@UCA (Cli FI @UCA)
- Education for sustainable development and change of social representations
- Impact of Pollution on Health
- Materials science contributing to the sustainable future
- The critical need for interdisciplinarity in higher-education to address the multifaceted problems of a changing world
- The ecoresponible mission of Université Côte d’Azur
- Towards less chemical inputs in agriculture
Members of the Université Côte d'Azur COP task force
DISCOVER WHAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS BUILT through european projects and innovative trainings
On a daily basis, our community is engaged in dozens of European Projects, thus developing many concrete solutions in the fight against climate change. In parallel, many courses are being developed to traing the young generations. Some examples, below!
Some of European Projects connected to climate change
- Algal Forest Restoration In MEDiterranean sea
- ALPIMED CLIMA
- Atlantic ECOsystems assessment, forecasting & sustainability
- Bio-based recyclable, reshapable and repairable (3R) fibre-reinforced EpOXY composites for automotive and construction sectors
- CONCERT-EAUX
- FishMPABlue 1,2 and 2 Plus
- Innovative Strategies for the development of green cross-border sectors
- Integrated and replicable solutions for co-creation in sustainable cities (IRIS)
- Nature insurance value of ecosystems: assessment and demonstration
- Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa (NEMEDUSSA)
- Paving the way for an ABS recycling revOLution in the EU
- RECIF
- RECYSITE
- Regenerating ECOsystems with Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk rEduCTion
- RISQ’EAU
- Seismic risk and alpine vulnerability
Training connected to climate change
- Executive Education in Territorial resilience strategy
- Master in Business Law - Risks and Sustainable Development track
- Master in Earth and planet science, environment
- Master in Environment management
- Master in Hydrotechnological and environmental
- Master in Information and Communications- Eco-citizen Communication, Heritage and Sustainable Development track
- Master in Science and Engineering of Materials - Nano & Materials, Industry & Management, Design & Quality, Energy & Environment track
- Master in Territorial transition innovation and management
- MSc Biocontrol Solutions for Plant Health
- MSc Engineers for Smart Cities
- MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk Management
- MSc Science: Conservation & Valorization of Marine Resources
