Joint Research Summer School program

Urban and Rural Resilience in Transnational Perspectives 

We are happy to announce the first Joint Research Summer School (JRSS) on the Different perspectives on Resilience for research track students (MA & PhD) from both Israel and Germany. The summer school will take place from Sept 11 – Sept 23, and will be held in both locations.  

This joint Israeli-German workshop, organized by TAU and Promotions-Kolleg NRW (PK NRW) will foster discussion, knowledge exchange, and a scholarly investigation of vital societal issues, such as natural hazards and resilience of cities in relation to global climate change, resilience of populations and social vulnerabilities, and environmental resilience. 

The week in Germany involves visits to urban and rural areas in the North Rhine-Westphalia region and includes seminars and workshops on urban and rural settings as well as an examination of challenges and opportunities for designing resilient communities. The week in Israel involves a visit to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea as well as to the Resilience Center in the city of Beer-Sheva. It includes seminars and workshops on urban and environmental dynamics, climate change, and analysis of community resilience at multiple scales of governance systems. 

Our candidates from both locations come from various academic disciplines, including, Social and Health Affairs, Resources and Sustainability, Technology and Systems, Emergency and Disaster Management, Environmental Studies and Sociology. The range of backgrounds and experiences will bring multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives to the program. 

The summer school will climax with joint students’ presentations on their final research project. The goal of the project is to identify and tackle main societal, urban, and environmental challenges in an interdisciplinary way that is relevant for both policy implementation and future studies and publications. 

We hope that this important initiative will yield further joint research collaborations in the future. 

For questions about the program, please contact: 

Dr. Michal Linder Zarankin 
Tel Aviv University, International 
michallinder@tauex.tau.ac.il