EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics on: The Design of Internal Environmental Agreements: Drivers and Obstacles for Success

The Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economic Social Sciences of the University of Graz, the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz, Austria, and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) organise the 2021-2025 EAERE Summer School series in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students, locally organised by the University of Graz. 

The 2025 EAERE Summer School will address "The Design of Internal Environmental Agreements: Drivers and Obstacles for Success" and will take place from 7 to 13 June 2025 in Castle Seggau, close to Graz, Styria, Austria.

Objectives

Global environmental problems as for instance climate change need international cooperation between sovereign countries to address them. However, effective cooperation is not easy to achieve in this context as the seminal papers by Barrett (1994), Carraro/Siniscalco (1993) and Hoel (1992) showed. Since then, the literature on this topic has grown exponentially. The 2025 EAERE summer school aims to present an accessible but rigorous review of the last advances on the analysis of international environmental agreements. The lectures will cover the recent contributions on global climate governance in the light of mitigation, geoengineering, adaptation and transfer payments. They will also include a presentation on the role of the design of agreements on compliance and on the investment in clean and brown technologies. The theoretical lectures will be supplemented by a review of experiments to study the provision of global public goods and the literature on Integrated Assessment Models studying global governance issues with a special focus on the use of calibrated simulation models for the analysis of the drivers and obstacles for success of international environmental agreements. Thus, the school will cover a broad spectrum of different methodologies which have been employed for the analysis of international environmental agreements. 

Faculty and respective tentative focus

• Valentina Bosetti
  Professor at the Department of Economics at Bocconi University and Senior Scientist at the CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Italy
   
• Astrid Dannenberg
  Professor at the Institute of Economics at Kassel University, Germany
   
• Michael Finus
  Professor in Climate and Environmental Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria
   
• Francesco Furini
  Assistant Professor at the Chair of Environmental Economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany

• Santiago Rubio (Scientific Coordinator)
  Professor at the Department of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia, Spain
   
• Alessia Russo
  Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Management `Marco Fanno´ at the University of Padua, Italy

School Organising Committee

Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Stefan Borsky, Michael Finus and  Karl W. Steininger, together with Irene Hye are the local organisers.

Local Lead Organiser in 2025: Michael Finus

How to apply

The Summer School is targeted to doctoral and post-doctoral students. Admission is conditional on the presentation by each student of his/her doctoral work; therefore applicants normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but are not requested to have completely finished their thesis.

EAERE membership is not required for applications, but it is encouraged. EAERE Membership is required for accepted applicants: participation is restricted to 2025 EAERE members.

In order to apply please fill in the following mandatory documentation as a  a single .pdf file to: eaere-summer-school@uni-graz.at in this order: 

• Application form (for download)
• Letter of motivation
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of recommendation from supervisor
• First draft of the paper to be presented (no restrictions regarding length). Both full papers and extended abstracts will be accepted, with preference given to full papers .

The deadline for applications is March 7, 2025.

Participation fee

The cost of participation is EUR 440 for the selected participants. 
This includes the following services:

• Accommodation in double rooms with other Summer School participants from June 7-13, 2025
• Full board as part of the Summer School programme
• Course materials
• Participation diploma.

You will receive detailed information on the payment modalities in the notification of your selection.

Single rooms are available in limited number and only on request. The single room supplement is EUR 27/night, the total price for the Summer School in this case is EUR 600.

Scholarship

A very small number of travel grants is available. This is to support those participants who do not receive sufficient funds from their home institution and are unable to raise them themselves. Please indicate on the application form whether you would like to apply for a scholarship. If yes, please describe your financial circumstances in the application documents. As there are limited funds available, we must prioritize and may request further documents from you for this purpose. All information will be treated in strict confidence. 

Regulation

• Participation is restricted to 2025 EAERE members. Information on how to become a EAERE member is available on the EAERE website.
• Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
• Presentation of your submitted paper is conditional on acceptance to the Summer School.
• All accepted applicants must attend the Summer School for its entire duration.
• All accepted applicants will be required to pay a participation fee.
• Accepted applicants who do not respect the stated deadlines will not be admitted.
• As the School will be conducted in English, applicants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language.

Deadlines

- March 7: End of the application period
- March 21: Notification of selected participants/start of registration
- April 25: Registration deadline for selected participants
- May 9: Deadline for submission of final papers
- May 30: Final programme
- June 7-13: Summer School

School Secretariat

For any questions, please contact the Summer School Secretariat at eaere-summer-school@uni-graz.at.

Summer School Website