On Tuesday, 30 September 2025, Filippo Bignami, senior researcher at SUPSI's Competence Centre for Labour, Welfare and Social Research (CLWS) and coordinator of the LUCI – Labour, Urbanscapes and Citizenship, will be a guest at the United Nations University (UNU) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, to hold a seminar entitled ‘Framing climate citizenship for CliMent COST Action’.
The meeting is part of the activities of Working Group 4 of the European CliMent project (COST Action).
CliMent is an international initiative funded under the COST Action programme that investigates the connections between climate change, social impacts and mental health, with the aim of identifying socially and politically sustainable coping strategies. The project is divided into several working groups, which address the issue from complementary perspectives. Among these, WG4 - Long-term strategies of community of practice: enabling sustainability focuses on the development of systemic and policy-oriented strategies aimed at promoting pro-environmental behaviour, advocacy actions at various levels (international, national, regional and urban) and training programmes for current and future professionals.
Bignami's seminar will contribute to this process by proposing a reflection on the social and political concept of citizenship in relation to the climate dimension, understood as a theoretical and operational framework for strengthening the relationship between individuals, communities, governance and the environment. In an era marked by intensifying polycrises, with particular attention to climate emergencies, developing practices and models of active and participatory citizenship is essential for building more resilient and inclusive societies.
The seminar agenda includes an introduction to both the project framework and the topics of the day's work by Prof. Nidhi Nagabhatla and Prof. Sanae Okamoto (UNU), followed by a presentation by Bignami on the drivers of climate citizenship and an open discussion with participants. The morning will conclude with a capacity-building session dedicated to WG4 members, aimed at identifying emerging issues and concrete actions to translate the conceptual framework of climate citizenship into shared policies, actions and practices.
More information on the CliMent (COST Action) project is available here: https://cost-climent.eu/