CLIMADEMIC Summer School 2026
Explore the links between climate change and health at the CLIMADEMIC Summer School 2026, hosted by ZKI-PH at the Robert Koch Institute.
CLIMADEMIC Summer School 2026
Begin: 29/06/2026
End: 03/07/2026
Location: Conference Centre of the Federal Ministries, Mauerstraße 27, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Explore the links between climate change and health at the CLIMADEMIC Summer School 2026, hosted by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research (ZKI-PH) at the Robert Koch Institute.
The event will take place in Berlin from 29 June to 3 July 2026 and offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of how a changing climate and shapes infectious diseases dynamics and public health risks.
The CLIMADEMIC Summer School is an intensive one-week programme combining lectures, discussions, and interdisciplinary exchange with leading experts. The programme’s goal is to equip early-career researchers with a solid understanding of climate–health interactions and the tools needed to address global public health challenges.
Lectures will introduce cutting-edge methods in climate research and epidemiology and explore how artificial intelligence can tackle cross-domain research questions. Participants will expand their knowledge, acquire new skills, and become part of a growing global network of peers working at the climate-health interface.
The event is hosted by ZKI-PH in collaboration with the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the Hasso Plattner Institute, the University of Potsdam, and the ELLIS Network.
Join us for an intensive week of learning and interdisciplinary exchange with leading experts!
Programme
The programme comprises three blocks:
Climate Modelling and Impacts on Health and Society
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Climate Change Dynamics
AI Approaches in Climate Sciences
The event is in English.
Target audience
The CLIMADEMIC Summer School is aimed at international PhD students and Postdocs with an academic background in climate research and modelling, epidemiology, public health, machine learning, or data science.
Benefits
The CLIMADEMIC Summer School offers participants an exciting five-day programme on cutting-edge topics, interactive discussions, and exchange with experts and peers from around the world, as well as a certificate of successful participation.
Registration
The CLIMADEMIC Summer School offers 40 spots for participants.
The participation fee includes access to all curriculum-based activities, daily lunch, and refreshments. Travel and accommodation expenses are to be covered by participants.
Standard fee: 450 €
Reduced fee: 150 € (members of partner institutions & ELLIS Network only)
Contact
Robert Koch Institute
Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research (ZKI-PH)
Ludwig-Witthöft-Str. 1415745 Wildau
Germany
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.rki.de
About the CLIMADEMIC project
The CLIMADEMIC project aims to identify, systematise and predict the coupling mechanisms between the Earth's changing climate and the dynamics of pandemics. State-of-the-art numerical climate models and datasets are being used in combination with the latest findings in infection biology, disease dynamics and bioinformatics. Artificial intelligence and causal inference methods are being used to bridge the interdisciplinary gap between the different research branches and to reveal the governing inter-dynamic processes as formalised causal expressions. It is anticipated that this enables the prediction of the evolution of pandemics under different future scenarios of climate change. The CLIMADEMIC project thus aims to provide a new level of understanding of global and regional climate-related threats to human health, which is a prerequisite for the development of mitigation strategies.
