Start
15 Jan 2026 @ 9:00:am
Finish
16 Jan 2026 @ 6:00:pm
Location
Online or Room 0.34 IBW Building, University of Cologne, Hertbert-Lewin Str. 2, 50931 Köln
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Event Details
The Winter Meeting of the International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Education about Health and the Environment is the result of a visionary idea conceived and spearheaded by Prof. Dr. Klaus Klein, now retired Professor of Biology and Didactics at the University of Cologne, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dale Ritzel and Prof. Dr. Robert McDermott, both now Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA), to bring together the fields of education, environmental sciences, and public health.
Since its inception, this conference has engaged more than one-hundred scientists from six continents as well as more than a thousand students and other young scholars from throughout the hemispheres to bring diversity to scientific areas, while unifying an interdisciplinary commitment to abandon archaic and siloed towers of thought. In addition to spawning the creation of an interdisciplinary journal – The Journal of Health, Environment & Education – this conference has addressed a plethora of themes in its lifetime, such as finding our common ground in health, environment, and education, bringing science into practice, seeking equity for planet earth, and how science should intervene in society, among many others.
This year’s theme – Environment, Health, and Education: Hope in Times of Global Change – is sure to continue the time-honored tradition of international exchange and collaboration. Here in 2026, we welcome your participation and invite you to help us in furthering the dialogue in these areas of endeavor.
Dr. Carolin Schwegler, part of the MESH directorate, is a member of the organizing committee of the 19th Winter Meeting.
Taking place over the course of the 15th and 16th January, 2026.
