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Posted in Blog, Bridging Futures on Jul 31, 2025.

Bridging Futures General Assembly Event 2025

Author: Sophie Spooner. Earlier this month UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition came together in Swansea, Wales for the second General Assembly and third Governing Council meetings of the coalition. On 16th July, at the Dylan Thomas Centre our public programme ‘“Bridging Futures: Connecting Today's Decisions to Tomorrow's Needs”’ kicked off three back-to-back days of exciting activities, public events, film screenings, lectures, panel discussions and participatory workshops, as well as planning and launching of new initiatives.

Posted in News on Jul 31, 2025.

News from MESH: New Project and CfP: "Mediterranean Fragments: A Call for Creative Contributions on Marine Litter and Climate Action"

Students across the EUniWell Alliance are invited to submit creative projects that explore the issue of marine litter in the Mediterranean using at least one of the following expressive approaches: Poetry and improvised performance, Visual Art or Data storytelling.

Posted in Cologne News, News, Publications on Jul 28, 2025.

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere

This book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today, through a postcolonial lens.

Posted in Blog, Club of Rome News on Jul 25, 2025.

Unlocking impressive youth potential amidst significant challenges for an equitable future

Author: Nolita Mvunelo, Principal of Cultural Transformations at The Club of Rome. Young people hold the key to fostering systems transformation. This is why so much of The Fifth Element’s work focuses on empowering younger generations and promoting intergenerational collaboration. Read the article below to explore how to unlock youth potential in ways that put life at the centre of decision-making, while investing in the changemakers of tomorrow.

Posted in Cologne News, News on Jul 24, 2025.

MESH Symposium Keynotes

This year’s Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) Symposium tackled the topic of “Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds” featuring keynotes from Alexa Weik von Mossner and Thom van Dooren which were streamed via Zoom and are therefore attenable all over the world.