The academic year 2021-22 has started. In Q1 this includes a new master-level course (in fact a completely redesigned course) offered by EHL: Modern Societies in Transition: Introduction to Historical Transition Studies. Currently 36 students participate.
Short description for students (text adapted from the CANVAS course homepage):
In 0EM130 you study sustainable innovation and socio-technical transitions in their broader historical context.Sustainable innovation and transitions are deeply temporal phenomena. Sustainability is an inter-generational process–how do the innovation choices of one generation affect the needs of later generations? Sociotechnical transitions (including sustainability transitions) too are defined as complex long-term processes that may take decades to unfold, sometimes even centuries. The energy transition has been pursued since the 1970s, for example, and is only gaining speed today. A long-term perspective uncovers many hidden innovation and transition dynamics and conflicts. How can we produce academic knowledge about this, and how can academic insights inform current sustainable innovation and transition efforts? 0EM130 invites you to engage with these issues on an advanced level.