The Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment (FDSE) summer school is intended for Ph.D. students and postdocs with a background in earth sciences, engineering or mathematics. The fluid-dynamical aspects of energy transition and climate change are covered in breadth and in depth. The principal aims of the school are to give students an advanced understanding of geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics and to foster networking among current and future researchers in these critical fields of science and technology.

Classroom lectures, experimental and numerical project work in small groups, and a full social programme are offered. The summer school is co-organised every year by faculty and researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) and from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France), and its location has alternated between these two institutions since 2012, meaning that we are presently at the 14th edition !

Particular attention is paid to the relationship between science and society through courses, lectures and projects in the field of arts, sciences and citizens, which explore the concept of science as ‘useful fictions’ and, in doing so, construct new narratives for desirable shared futures, beyond the end of the present world.