International Summer School of Political Ecology 2025: Strategies for a Just Green Transition

The International Summer School of Political Ecology returns under the title Strategies for a Just Green Transition. It will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 30 June to 4 July.

How can we implement a just green transition? This is a question we frequently pose yet rarely explore in sufficient depth to answer it with a proper strategy. Broadly, green transition strategies can be divided into a three-part framework: strategies of rupture and transition to eco-socialism; strategies for taming and reforming eco modernisation; and strategies for building alternative social infrastructures that, at least partially, erode existing socio-environmental systems. 

Which social classes and groups can lead a just green transition, and what political form should they adopt to gain power? Can the competitive state be transformed into the green state? What role do decentralisation and regionalisation play in these efforts? Is there potential for convergence between workers’ and environmental struggles? How can we bridge the perspectives of the Global South and the Global North? Summer School aims to help strengthen strategic thinking, which should complement and build on utopian and critical approaches to the environmental crisis.

Participation in the summer school is free.
Deadlines for aplication: accredited students (1 March), participants, requiring a Visa (15 April), all others (15 May). 

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SPEAKERS HOSTED BY SUMMER SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY 2025: 

• Lau Kin Chi, one of the founding members of Global University for Sustainability, and director of its executive team;
• Lorenzo Feltrin, a fellow at Ca’ Foscari University;
• Aleksandar Matković, a research associate at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, and a Fellow at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, as well as a member of the Green-Left Front in Serbia;
• Feyzi Ismail, teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London;
• Sinan Eden, is an activist in Climáximo with experience from direct action to alliance building, in a variety of topics including just transition, social movements, strategy and organization;
• Zoi Christina Siamanta, a human geographer and political ecologist, currently collaborating with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens;
• Jože Vogrinc, a retired sociologist curently interested  in historical materialism as a theory of the reproduction of social relations;
• Michael J Albert,  is a lecturer in Global Environmental Politics at the University of Edinburgh;
• Rita Calvario, is an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte at the University of Lisbon.
• Ekaterina Chertovskaya, is a researcher based at Lund University working on degrowth and critical organisation studies, with a focus on strategies for social-ecological transformation;
• and other scholars and activists. 

Learn more abouth the speakers, how to apply and other information about sumer school on the link.