Every year, Labex OSUG and ITTEM organize a summer school for PhD students from Grenoble Alpes and Savoie Mont Blanc universities working on mountain issues in the heart of the Écrins massif.
An interdisciplinary course, the Mountain Research School offers immersion in the field in the high mountains; roaming from hut to hut, or leaving from the Jardin du Lautaret at 2100 meters altitude, the heart of scientific research dedicated to the effects of climate change and human practices on mountain ecosystems.
By providing an opportunity for teacher-researchers and doctoral students from both the earth and environmental sciences and the humanities and social sciences to come together, the Mountain Research School enables a cross-fertilization of viewpoints and work practices on a variety of themes: the future of glaciers, the role of mountain huts, the sharing of space…