Latest student activities

As education is central to the mission of the Chair, our team has launched several efforts to encourage students’ involvement in sustainable development and climate outside of their courses.

The Chair’s Team offers the following student activities:

Student blog
Student challenges and essay competitions
Student-led podcasts

More information on our activities will be shared here regularly.

11 July 2022

11 July 2022

Geoengineering: an incomplete solution to a poorly formulated problem

By Marin Pitavy This essay won 1st place at the Spring 2022 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic of: “Why […]

11 July 2022

Why geoengineering to stay under 2 degrees Celsius should be stopped

By Patrick Oko Quaye This essay won 2nd place at the Spring 2022 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic of: […]

23 May 2022

Discussion Highlights: Chair and Students’ Roundtable #4

“We need to challenge the system or we are reinforcing it”. Marlène Elias The fourth Chair and Students’ Roundtable was held on […]

8 April 2022

Why regulation matters: The reason the EU beats the US in the race to EVs

By Johan Bracht Electric vehicles (EV) sales largely surpassed the 2 million mark in the EU in 2021 (17% market […]

5 April 2022

For a European recycling industry: taking the opportunity of EVs batteries

By Léa Falco Opponents of electric vehicles (EVs) keep repeating it: EVs need six times more minerals than conventional vehicles[1]. […]

15 March 2022

Consumers are demanding small and affordable EVs – why traditional automakers are supplying the opposite

By Johan Bracht Analysts frequently mention Electric Vehicles (EV) cost as one of the main barriers to large-scale EV uptake. […]

4 March 2022

Discussion Highlights: Chair and Students’ Roundtable #3

“Taking the model that we have at land, and applying it at sea, clearly doesn’t work. It is a very […]

18 February 2022

Ecocide: from individual to institutional accountability

By Marin Pitavy The term ecocide first appeared during the Vietnam War to describe the American operation using “Agent Orange”. […]

26 November 2021

Why Europe needs to answer calls for climate justice

By Fatim Selina Diaby This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the […]

26 November 2021

A social project for the European Union

By Marin Pitavy This essay is one of the winners of the Fall 2021 Chair’s Essay Competition on the topic […]