CEMUS Forum and outreach organizes open events and activities in collaboration with students and various actors in the local and international community. The events are open to all and bring together students, researchers, local actors and the interested public. The format varies from events happening once or twice such as lectures, workshops, seminars, film screenings, to reoccurring series, conferences, symposiums and festivals organized with different partners. We also bring together different local organizations and support more long-term student projects, and host different meeting places in Uppsala.
The aim with CEMUS Forum is to bridge the gap between the theoretical and practical, the younger and older generations, and the academic and non-academic perspectives, and contribute to a better, more sustainable and just world.
Contact Daniel Mossberg, Lead Coordinator CEMUS Forum and Outreach, with your questions.
How you can get involved with CEMUS Forum
Get involved in CEMUS
Do you have an idea for an event you want to organize? An inspiring guest that you want invite for a lecture? A critical seminar series? A podcast extravaganza? A topic you want to discuss and learn more about with others? Or a more long term sustainability project you want to start?
Student, staff magazines and creative content
On the linked to below page we have collected student magazines that you can contribute to and some of the creative content and writings from CEMUS more recent history.
CEMUS Project Cafés
Each semester CEMUS host a Project Café where local organizations and civil society can present the work they do and how new people can get involved. The cafés have been great opportunity for new students to get to know Uppsala’s many organizations and connect with others working for sustainability.
The Sustainability and Climate Thesis Library
The Sustainability and Climate Thesis Library is an online thesis library where you can publish your thesis on anything related to CEMUS’ broad range of topics and discussions. Click on the link below to learn more on how you can submit your thesis.
Current activities at CEMUS Forum
Framtidsakademin – an open lecture series
Lecture series on current issues: open to the public (in Swedish). Framtidsakademin offers public lectures by researchers that address questions of environment, development and sustainability. The lecture-series consists of five lecture per semester, free of charge and open for all, run in collaboration with Folkuniversitetet. The theme for spring 2020 is Human Rights.
Future Club GROW – Framtidsklubben GRO
CEMUS staff and students organises extra-curricular activities for children in Uppsala who wants to learn about and discuss sustainable development. The project is initiated, financed and run by Uppsala municipality, and the sessions are planned and run by CEMUS staff and students.
Re-emergence/emergency walks
CEMUS invites you to a series of re-emergence, emergency walks to explore issues, questions and unknowns central to our ability to re-imagine and re-shape human societies and culture.
Open Lectures, Seminars and Workshops
At CEMUS start page you can find the latest open lectures, seminars, workshop and events. Almost all events are free and open to the public, students and university staff, although some require registration and/or conference fees.
ClimateExistence Conference August 12-14, 2021
The next conference has been postponed until August 12-14, 2021, and as before we will be at the Sigtuna Foundation, warmly welcome! The conference – ClimateExistence / KlimatExistens – has since 2008 brought together scholars, researchers, educators, artists, activists, students and the general public in an engaged discussion and dialogue concerning the existential, psychological, philosophical and ethical dimensions of climate change / crisis / breakdown. The ClimateExistence conference is a collaboration between the Sigtuna Foundation, the Centre for Environment and Development Studies, CEMUS at Uppsala University and SLU, and the Climate Change Leadership node at Uppsala University.
Moving Mountains Conference 2022
The first conference day “Spirituality, Sustainability and the Future of the Earth – Moving Mountains” was organized September 12, 2019. We now welcome you to the next one-day conference 2022! The conference series is a collaboration between the Centre for Religion and Society (CRS UU), the Church of Sweden, STUNS Energy and CEMUS.
Read more about the previous conference Sep 12 »
The Critical Interference Podcast
From Uppsala, Sweden we bring you critical conversations, disruptive ideas on how to change the world one small, systemic step at a time. Sustainability, climate, power, justice, education and all sorts of initiatives gets examined and dicussed in an open and intense format. You can find the Podcast at your regular distributors and leave voice messages to us at https://anchor.fm/cemus or interact via social media Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.
Meeting Places and Study Spaces
CEMUS Library/Lab/Lounge
CEMUS Library/Lab/Lounge at Villavägen 16, campus Geocentrum, is a meeting place for students and others, where you can study, find course literature (only to be read in CEMUS Library), work on projects or just relax. You can book it for events in line with CEMUS activities and issues in the paper calender on the whiteboard in the corridor.
Kollaboratoriet Uppsala – looking for a new space in 2022
Kollaboratoriet Uppsala was a physical space located in central Uppsala overlooking the river, with the purpose to be a multi-purpose space for different types of activities and events – collaborations, crossing boundaries, and developing ideas for a better world. We are looking for a new space in 2022, contact us if you want contribute in developing the new Kollaboratoriet.
Student Organizations
CEMUS Roots – our student organization
CEMUS Roots is a dynamic and self-governing student-run group, inclusive to all. It was established in order to allow students to take an active role in influencing the way that education is conducted at the center. The student organization is currently being reconstituted.
GHOST – Gotland Headquarters of Sustainable Thinkers
GHOST is a student-led networking platform at Campus Gotland for people from all backgrounds who are interested in sustainability. Starting 2021 GHOST and CEMUS will collaborate on spreading info on relevant activities and events, and possibly organize a joint event per semester.
Past Activities and Collaborations
Uppsala Sustainability Day – for students by students
At the end the spring or autumn semester, CEMUS students organizes a day to celebrate, share, and present topics 
and ideas about sustainability. The festival is organized by students, in collaboration with course coordinators, researchers and actors from the local and wider community.
Read more about the Sustainability Day »
Read more about the Sustainability Slam »
Thematic Conferences and Symposiums
Over the years CEMUS has organised several conferences and symposiums on different themes – The Uppsala ekonomi- och miljömässa, UEM 2005, KlimatExistens and ClimateExistence conferences in collaboration with the Sigtuna Foundation, the Uppsala Sustainability Conference 2008-2013, Sustainable Mining – A Contradiction in Terms or a Practical Possibility? in 2014 and Generation of the New Economy – Youth Economics Festival organised together with Schumacher College among others.
Framebreaking Fridays Research Seminars – Culture in the Shadow of Climate Change
A collaboration between CEMUS, Riksteatern and the Research Node Mind and Nature. On the first Friday of every month, an international guest artist visits Uppsala to initiate conversations that unsettle some of the frames and assumptions that shape our understanding of the world – A world in the shadow of accelerating climate change. Each Framebreaking Friday engages students, researchers, educators and the interested public, in a variety of gatherings that explore the spaces in-between – between disciplines, between the world of art and academia, and between humanity and the more-than-human world.
Flood – student run online magazine
Flood (former ceMuse) is a student-run online magazine in which students of CEMUS and Uppsala University provide commentary and in-depth pieces on the issue of Sustainable Development that are interesting and important to the writer and the wider audience.
Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development – RCE Uppsala-Gotland
CEMUS is recognized by the United Nations University as a hub and platform to catalize and promote transformative learning initiatives in Uppsala, called “Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development.” This will continue to be developed within the Uppsala centre for sustainable development in collaboration with a wide collection of societal actors and organizations. The work to further develop the platform is continued, and involvement from everyone interested is most welcome.
Uppsala Sustainability Festival
At the end the spring and autumn semester, CEMUS students organizes a day to celebrate, share, and present topics and ideas about sustainability. The festival is organized by students, in collaboration with course coordinators, researchers and actors from the local and wider community.
Read more about the Sustainability Festivals »
Film & Framtid
Film & Framtid is a movie screening project run in collaboration with Folkuniversiteten and Fyrisbiografen. Movies on current topics are screened, and lecrurers are invited to give commentary and to talk about the issues. Tickets cost 80 SEK and fika is included in the price. (In Swedish – some movies will be in English)
Alumni Network
CEMUS hosts annual alumni events to help (re)connect former and current students, staff, and other CEMUS friends. In 2017, a Panel Discussion was held on March 18th followed by a dinner mingle. Events are open to both former and current students and staff, and aims to give opportunities to expand your network.
‘Applied Ecopreneurship Methodologies’
CEMUS is a part of a new 2-year Erasmus+ project (2018-2019) together with Sogn Jord- og Hagebruksskule (Norway), Centre for Ecological Economics and Ethics at Nord University (Norway), Schumacher College (UK), and Friends of the Earth Denmark. The project explores what competences and skills are needed in order to create new social and ecological enterprises (or, make a living out of working with sustainability), and how we could support this through our courses and as educational institutions.
Matariki Network of Universities Global Citizenship Program
Uppsala University hosted the first international workshop on Global Citizenship in the Matariki Network of Universities. The workshop, facilitated by CEMUS, took place on April 18-21 2016 and included participation from students and faculty from 6 universities in the network. The two initial strands for the program are “Empowering Learners” and “Community Engagement”.
CEMUS Garden Group
The CEMUS Garden Group has in the past hosted meetings and events including practical workshops, lectures, film showings and harvest parties, as well as developed and maintained the CEMUS Garden at Villavägen 16. There is plenty of room for ideas as to what topics should be covered during events and everyone is welcome to participate. No previous ties to CEMUS are needed.Main organiser for this project was Christopher Wegweiser, also see the Facebook group
REALS – Resilient and Ecological Approaches for Living Sustainably
The REALS Project (Resilient and Ecological Approaches for Living Sustainably) is a project run by Permaculture Sweden in collaboration with Swedish, Russian and Belarussian partners. CEMUS is a partner in the project that aims to create networks and intercultural learning between Sweden, Russia and Belarus, with a focus on socio-ecological resilience and sustainable lifestyles.