In the Anthropocene era, scientists are beginning to study the world afresh: the traditional distinctions between natural and social sciences, and between academic and non-academic forms of knowledge no longer provide an adequate framework for interpreting the present. Anthropocene phenomena are complex, dynamically changing and often counterintuitively interconnected - if we want to understand the world we live in, it is crucial to be able to look at it from different disciplinary perspectives.
In the microcertificate module, you will learn how to effectively study and interpret the contemporary world in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ways: you will learn how to go beyond your own expertise, communicate across disciplines, and better respond to the complex - ecological, social, and identity - challenges of the present.
The course combines distance learning with an intensive week-long on-site summer school.

An intensive week-long on-site program (seminars, field trips, lab work, short lectures, work on an ongoing project) combined with distance online preparation and subsequent mentoring leading to the development of a final group project. All phases under the guidance of leading experts in the disciplines (paleoecology, ecology, sociology, philosophy, history, economics, anthropology; about 10 lecturers in each run).

3 phases:
1. Introductory online block: online lectures, assignment of independent reading, online tutorials if needed. 3 group meetings, May-June 2026.
2. Intensive week-long program in Prague: lectures, seminars, field trips, workshops during the summer school. 1 week, 7-11 September 2026.
3. Final online block: online lectures, advanced work and finalisation of final group project, online mentoring (group consultations). 2 group meetings + working group meetings with mentors, October-December 2026.

Presentation of final group work: 7 January 2027.