Welcome to Umeå Transformation Research Initiatives' annual conference! We welcome everyone interested in engaging in research and collaboration for sustainable transformation as we gather this year around the theme of polycrises.
Our world is characterised by global challenges of increasing complexity. The combination of crises such as pandemics, climate change, and wars reinforce each other and together form a polycrisis. To address these challenges, interdisciplinary research is required at multiple levels. At this conference, experts from various disciplines will gather to discuss and shed light on the phenomenon of polycrisis from different perspectives.
Take the opportunity to meet researchers and colleagues from across the university, and develop new collaborations that can help address major societal challenges of our time.
Call for abstracts is open!
Are you interested in organising a session, or display your research with a poster? Call for abstracts is open, deadline for submissions are 1 June. Read more: Dealing with the polycrisis - UTRI conference 2025
The conference will be held in english, but some sessions may only be available in Swedish.
When several crises happen at the same time, they can make each other worse, creating a bigger problem. This phenomenon is called a polycrisis.
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