Call for Participation: PhD Summer School ‘Global challenges and local responses’, 01-04 September 2025, Athens

From the Standing Group on Local Government and Politics.

Climate change, migration, social disparities, provision of affordable housing, and urban tourism are currently pressing global challenges. These challenges arise concretely primarily at the local level and are addressed not least through local policies. The Summer School is designed to give doctoral students the opportunity to present and discuss their work on local policies to solve or at least mitigate such global challenges. Contributions are particularly welcome that demonstrate particular local-level responses to global challenges through comparisons either within a country or between countries. Because comparisons of local policies are to be the focus of the Summer School, the doctoral students will receive methodological guidance from experienced academics. Furthermore, doctoral students will get advice from the editor of a journal how to write an academic article and to submit it successfully to an internationally respected journal.

Details about application procedures, registration, fees and a provisional programme are avilable at the website of the Summer School at TU Darmstadt.