Project Coordinator: Prof. Gioia Angeletti and Prof.ssa Simona Bertolini
Project: 2025-1-IT02-KA131-HED-000321324-5
Blended Intensive Program organized by the University of Parma as part of the Alliance EU GREEN.
As part of the University Alliance EU GREEN, the University of Parma offers students enrolled in one of the Alliance's universities the opportunity to participate in this Blended Intensive Programme, approved by the European Union under the ERASMUS+ Programme 2021/2027.
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Program details:
- Hosting University: University of Parma (IT)
- In-presence period: 19-23/10/2026
- Virtual attendance period: 15/09/2026 -15/10/2026
- Language of instruction: English - B2
- Awarded ECTS credits: 6
- Number of places available: 30
- Admission requirements: Enrollment in a degree program in the humanities, enrollment in the third year of a Bachelor’s degree, or enrollment in a Master’s degree program, with an English language proficiency of at least B2 level.
Program Description:
The principal objective of this Blended Intensive Programme is to demonstrate and enhance the contribution of the Humanities and the Arts to contemporary environmental challenges, with particular reference to the need to reconceptualize the relationship between the human and the nonhuman in the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. Moving beyond the assumption that environmental knowledge is produced primarily by the natural sciences, the BIP foregrounds the epistemic, experiential, and transformative contribution of disciplines such as philosophy, literature, environmental history, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and the visual and performing arts. Their value lies both in the specific analytical and historical knowledge they generate (e.g. within environmental history) and in their capacity to support experiential, perceptual, and ethical transformations.
Building on these premises, the BIP integrates cognitive, perceptual, creative, and applied dimensions. The school’s approach is articulated through two complementary lines of action, both encouraging students to imagine new modes of coexistence with the more-than-human world. First, it offers students an interdisciplinary learning environment that facilitates dialogue among different humanities-based perspectives on the human–nonhuman relationship, thereby broadening students’ analytical frameworks and supporting the development of cross-disciplinary academic competencies. Second, the programme engages multiple experiential dimensions through which relations with the nonhuman are established, including cognitive, ethical, affective, sensory, and evaluative domains. To this end, the programme integrates interactive lectures, workshops, artistic and embodied practices, experiential laboratories, and outdoor activities.
