Our most urgent societal challenges involve system-wide changes in highly interrelated complex systems; think of climate change, the ecological breakdown, growing inequality, mass migrations of humans and other animals, the spread of misinformation, or global pandemics. The solutions for these crises involve changing social and technological systems at unprecedented rates while we balance fairness and moral principles in the process. Juggling these interdisciplinary and multidimensional problems requires understanding the issues across the traditional boundaries of science. That means that we need a common language! Complexity.

Coordinator

Vítor V. Vasconcelos

Entry requirements

Open to second-year and third-year UvA Bachelor's students and other interested parties, such as contract students or students from other Dutch higher education institutions. 

Master's students can only participate if there are still spots available. Please send an email with motivation to keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl to be placed on the waiting list. One week prior to the start of the course, you will hear whether or not you can participate.

Timetable

You can find the timetable on Datanose.

Costs

Prices can be found on the IIS website.

Registration

UvA Bachelor's students can register from 2 to 9 December 2024 in the GLASS registration rounds. Master’s students can send a short motivation to keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl.

‘Bijvak’ students and contract students can register from 2 December 2024 until one week prior to the start of the course, by completing the online registration form.

If you have any trouble while registering, please contact us at keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl.

SDGs in education

The IIS strives to reflect current societal issues and challenges in our elective courses, honours modules and degree programmes and attempts to integrate the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in this course. For more information about these goals, please visit the SDGs website.