Future Earth Research School (FERS)
offers a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to meet and collaborate with international experts. Joining an FERS course provides participants with a great chance to share experiences on different multidisciplinary aspects of research while building a fertile ground for innovation and new research pathways.

The advanced knowledge network
FERS is a place where early-career scientists meet, discuss, and share ideas and perspectives from various backgrounds and disciplines. A rare plus is to have different ways of interacting with science processes and developing a systemic approach, vital to understanding and building the path toward a sustainable future.

Are you ready to deal with future challenges?

Sea-level rise, water management, floods and droughts, extreme events, risk management and reduction, the nature/technology gap, big data, equity and justice. Join FERS School to deepen your knowledge and anticipate future global challenges.

Why Joining FERS?

FERS is an international high-level Research School. The training method comprises intensive training with networking and knowledge exchange, setting the stepping stone of professional relations to stay.

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Data-Driven Modelling and Predictions of the Earth System

Director: Aneesh Subramanian

Location: Bertinoro, Italy

WINTER 2024

The “Data-Driven Modelling and Predictions of the Earth System” course is designed to equip graduate students with the essential tools and methodologies for understanding and interpreting the complex relationships within Earth system data. As the volume of climate-related data continues to grow, the challenge lies not only in managing this data but in effectively utilizing it to uncover the underlying processes that drive climate dynamics. This course will offer a deep dive into the mathematical foundations of data-driven modeling, with a particular focus on techniques tailored for analyzing and predicting the behavior of complex dynamical systems.

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Law, Finance, and Litigation: addressing climate change risks in Europe

Co-Directors: Enrico Buono, Giulia Gallluccio

Location: Bertinoro, Italy

AUTUMN 2024

Climate change is a major threat to human well-being, posing risks to social and legal normativity, as well as challenging the current configuration of institutional structures. In this sense, legal frameworks and socio-political arrangements have addressed the adverse effects of climate change through norms, financial mechanisms, and litigation. Against this background, this course will provide an overview of the legal instruments and financial mechanisms aimed at regulating climate change, its risks and future consequences in Europe.

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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Adaptation

Director: Begoña Pérez Gómez

Location: Bertinoro, Italy

AUTUMN 2023

Sea level rise is one of the most pressing challenges posed by climate change, with significant implications for coastal communities around the world. This comprehensive course on “Sea Level Rise and Coastal Adaptation” provides a deep understanding of the causes and impacts of rising sea levels, delving into the consequences on coastal regions including intensification of extreme events, increased coastal erosion, inundation of low-lying areas and heightened vulnerability to storm surges.

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Data science and machine learning for climate research

Director: Stefan Klus

Location: Bertinoro, Italy

SUMMER 2023

While we keep collecting and storing data over data, understanding and interpreting the underlying processes and relationships between different observations is still a challenge to tackle. The Future Earth Research School on “Data Science and Machine Learning for Climate Research” will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of the mathematical foundations of machine learning, with a particular focus on methods for analysing complex dynamical systems. Topics of interest include model reduction, system identification, estimation of associated transfer operators such as the Koopman operator, control, uncertainty quantification, deep learning, and applications in climate science and sustainability.

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Adaptation and sustainable
risk management

Director: Daniela Jacob

Location: Bertinoro, Italy

AUTUMN 2022

The ever-growing effects of climate change are for all to see. Especially in recent years extreme events such as heat waves, heavy rains and floods are becoming more frequent. Based on the results of the IPCC, it is clear that in some regions of the world, there would be fewer extreme climate events if global warming could be limited to 1.5 °C instead of 2 °C by the end of this century. The goal of the course was for participants to understand how risks occur and how they can be assessed and managed to focus on the interaction between the physical and human environment and how risks are shaped by their interactions. This requires understanding both physical and geographical processes and economic and human development under climate change.

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Water Resources,

Land-use and Forestry

Director: Alberto Montanari

Location: Bologna, Italy

SUMMER 2022

The sustainable management of water resources, land and forestry is a key challenge for humanity in the 21st century that is tightly related to the UN sustainable development goals. The nexus between water and ecology is essential to sustainability, economic and environmental development and the well-being of humanity. The growing desire for higher living standards and the concurrent environmental changes – particularly climate change – requires a forward-looking and transdisciplinary approach to managing water and environmental resources. In particular, an innovative approach to adaptation to climate change is required to close the gap between climate change scenarios, policy-making and technical design of adaptation strategies.

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