Summer School ¶

 The WSL and Eawag Biodiversity Center offers a yearly summer school focused on current topics in biodiversity research and outreach. The summer school gives PhD students (from any higher education institution in Switzerland and around the world) and young professionals the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of a particular scientific topic and to learn new approaches. Our goal is to build capacity and increase knowledge transfer and visibility.

The program of our summer schools consists of keynote lectures, hands-on exercises, discussions, excursions, and group work around the summer school theme. Lecturers are WSL and Eawag specialists and international leaders in the offered fields.

Between 2023 and 2025, the Biodiversity Center organized three editions of its summer school on blue-green biodiversity (Blue-green biodiversity. Research and practice at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems). The first two editions were held in partnership with the Blue-Green Research Initiative (WSL & Eawag), and since the initiative concluded, the Center has continued to run the program with support from WSL and Eawag members.

In 2022, reflecting our commitment to collaboration and networking, we ran a summer school on forest biodiversity in collaboration with SwissForestLab (FORBIODIV: Biodiversity, a key element for temperate forest ecosystems).