Training & Summer schools
Since 2020, the Climate Graduate School is organizing a Virtual annual spring or summer school on one specific theme every year related to climate change. This event welcomes international undergraduate, scientific Masters’ students who wish to pursue a research career in Climate and Environmental Sciences in France, specifically in one of the IPSL- associated laboratories. Since 2025, the summer school has been proposed in a hybrid format.
Besides its own summer school, IPSL-CGS has been supporting various other international training schools. Here are some examples.
Summer school “Climate Change, Projections and Services”
IPSL, more specifically through the graduate school, collaborated with the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IPP) to organize the summer school “Climate Change, Projections and Services” (first edition in November 2023). The purpose of this summer school is to introduce climate projections and provide training on their use to support risk management and adaptation. This summer school targets more specifically students and professional from Africa and Middle East, but it is also opened to IPSL-CGS students.
Summer school "SPECATMOS - Spectroscopy and Atmosphere: Measurements and Modelling"
SPECATMOS is an International Summer School that brings together doctoral students, researchers and professionals from various countries. It is a one-week program that includes lectures, tutorials, poster sessions and networking opportunities. Its aim is to provide interdisciplinary training in spectroscopy and physical chemistry applied to atmospheric physics and chemistry, thereby promoting a better understanding of the scientific issues in these fields.
Summer School "FDSE - Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment"
The FDSE Summer School is an international programme co-organised by the University of Cambridge and École polytechnique. It has been offering in-depth training in modern environmental issues through the prism of fluid dynamics since 2012. This summer school is dedicated to PhD students, post-docs and engineers specialising in mathematics, fluid mechanics or environmental sciences. Indeed, the school covers a wide range of topics, including the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the oceans, renewable energies and flow instabilities, with a particular focus on the interaction between science and society. The programme combines theoretical courses, experimental and digital workshops, interdisciplinary lectures and creative projects combining art and science.
Winter School "Arts et sciences face au changement climatique et à la transition écologique"
The winter school “Arts et sciences face au changement climatique et à la transition écologique” provides an interdisciplinary program that fosters collaboration between scientists and artists to raise awareness and encourage action on climate change. Organised in partnership with national and international initiatives that strongly involve IPSL researchers, it explores the complex mechanisms of climate, its environmental impacts and energy transitions through scientific presentations and creative workshops. Participants create artistic works that highlight the ecological emergency and make scientific issues accessible to the public.
Summer school "Autour du 2°C"
Since 2017, the “Autour du 2°C” summer school has been organised every two years, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of climate change. Each edition focuses on a central theme, encouraging dialogue between human sciences, environmental sciences and engineering sciences. The school brings together researchers, doctoral students, post-doctoral students and local stakeholders to encourage exchange, collaboration and new scientific perspectives.
Spring School "TRACING"
The TRACING school is a thematic spring school that brings together French and international experts to discuss issues related to soil erosion and water quality. To address the growing pressures exerted by human activities and climate change, it focuses on innovative methods for tracing sediment flows and associated contaminants, in order to gain a better understanding of their origin, dynamics and impact on aquatic environments. The school offers thematic workshops dedicated to sediment tracing approaches, high-resolution topographic mapping, and the use of sensors in the field.
Training School "Attributing impacts of climate change (I2C): challenges, methods and perspectives"
The I2C international school offered interdisciplinary training in the attribution of extreme climatic events and their impacts, in a context of increasingly marked global change. It brought together climate experts, statisticians and specialists in artificial intelligence and modelling to provide advanced tools for detection, causal analysis and communication. Based on the European projects XAIDA, CLINT and EDIPI, it was dedicated to young researchers wishing to learn about the latest statistical and machine learning methods to better understand, quantify and explain extreme events and their effects. The programme combined lectures, group work, discussion sessions and practical workshops.
