Humanities-driven Sustainability Science

BRIDGES is a global sustainability science coalition organized within UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). As a humanities-led coalition that is not limited to the humanities, BRIDGES promotes transformative collaborations across academic domains of the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in partnership with diverse communities.

BRIDGES to partner with World Academy of Art and Science on Education for Human Security Conference (7-9 March 2023)

Feb 22, 2023

The BRIDGES Coalition are delighted to announce that we are partnering with the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) on its 6th International Conference on Future Education, with a focus on Education for Human Security, taking place 7-9 March 2023. Click here to learn more about our two featured events As noted by the […]

BRIDGES at the Learning Planet Festival 2023

Feb 15, 2023

The BRIDGES Coalition was delighted to come aboard the LearningPlanet Festival as a partner this year. With over 600 events worldwide, the 4th edition of the festival gathered close to 60,000 online participants from 191 countries. Our coalition organised and co-/sponsored a number of these online events, together with the The Club of Rome, Future […]

Meeting of the BRIDGES Interim Executive Committee at UNESCO headquarters, 20 January 2023

Jan 20, 2023

The Interim Executive Group of the BRIDGES Coalition met at UNESCO headquarters on Friday 20 January in the office of UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, Gabriela Ramos. The purpose of the meeting was to work through final provisions of the the coalition’s longer term governance structures, as reflected in the BRIDGES Rules […]

Events

Session led by the the UK Hub of BRIDGES at the International Conference on Education for Human Security

The World Academy of Science and Art (WAAS) has partnered with UNESCO BRIDGES and other partner organisations, including the Global Futures Laboratory of Arizona State University, SDSN Europe, and the World University Consortium to bring to you the International Conference on Education for Human Security. The following panel is co-sponsored by WAAS and the BRIDGES […]

BRIDGES and ASU Global Futures Laboratory-led Session on Youth, Knowledge and Climate Action at the International Conference on Education for Human Security

The World Academy of Science and Art (WAAS) has partnered with the BRIDGES Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformaitons programme and other partner organisations, including the Global Futures Laboratory of Arizona State University, SDSN Europe, and the World University Consortium to bring to you the International Conference on Education for Human Security. The following […]

Ecological Imagination: Building Transformative Pathways with Insights from the Humanities

Join us on the 24th of February 2023 for the first joint Future Earth-BRIDGES Coalition Pathways Forum event. We anticipate it will be the first in a recurring series of Pathways Forum team-ups between our global sustainability science organizations. What exactly are the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, environmental history? How can these interdisciplinary approaches contribute to transformative […]

Hubs

BRIDGES International Program Office

BRIDGES Flagship Hub, Arizona State University

ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Flagship Hub

BRIDGES UK Hub, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Wales, UK

Photo of a Great Skua in flight. Photo credit: Þorvarður Árnason

BRIDGES Thematic Hub, CUNY-Princeton

Past Socio-Environmental Change and Resilience

BRIDGES Impact Hub, The Club of Rome

Reframing the Role of Research for Society

BRIDGES Southern African Hub, University of Pretoria

Projects

BRIDGES Endorsed

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Partnered Initiatives

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