Symposium

Symposium “Planetary Health Literacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Current Research, and Emerging Directions”

Date: 17 Sep 2026, 10-17 h

Location: University of Bayreuth, Chair of Planetary & Public Health

The goal of the symposium is to exchange insights on the current state of Planetary Health Literacy research from interdisciplinary perspectives of conceptually related fields (such as Public Health, One Health, Education for Sustainable Development) with a particular focus on competencies and measurement methods.

Category "Speaker"

• Experts; invited only.
• 15-min keynote talks on current trends, breakthroughs & open questions.

Category "Pitch"

• Open to early-career researchers & Master students presenting their thesis
• 5-min creative pitches – no format restrictions; presentations, posters, storytelling, etc. focusing on the core scientific message and relevance. Creative, humorous, or unconventional formats are explicitly encouraged.
  
  Call for Abstracts (01 March – 30 April 2026):
  
• Submit a short proposal (max. 250 words) until 30/04/2026 to lydia.reismann@uni-bayreuth.de; please include the justification of the relevance to the symposium theme "Planetary Health Literacy" and the language of presentation (German/English).
  

The Flyer is linked here.

Participation fee: The event, including meals, will be free of charge, but we can only cover travel expenses in exceptional cases.

Register here for participating.