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A research project funded by the European Research Council that analyzes the nexus between climate change, health, and immigration. Led by Panagiota Kotsila at @icta-uab.bsky.social https://imbrace-erc.org/

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más allá de las fronteras La escocesa

📢20 March! A roundtable titled “Beyond Borders” with our PI @pkotsila.bsky.social will discuss climate migration, participatory methodologies community-based artistic practices, w/ Josep Perelló Palou & Rae Teitelbaum👇
📍 La Escocesa, Bcn
🎟️ Free event w/ registration
laescocesa.org/es/view/masa...

12.03.2026 13:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Exploring the impacts of extreme heat on migrant communities in Athens - IMBRACE

🌡️ How does extreme heat affect everyday life in cities?
A look at our workshop in Athens @fatimafizza.bsky.social, where migrant women shared their experiences 👇 #ClimateJustice #UrbanHeat #MigrantCommunities imbrace-erc.org/exploring-th...

26.02.2026 14:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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El cambio climático agrava el sinhogarismo (también en invierno) El cambio climático agrava el sinhogarismo y en algunos casos incluso lo fomenta

⛈️❄️El cambio climático agrava el sinhogarismo (también en invierno)

✍️👩@andreamcintosh.bsky.social, investigadora del ICTA-UAB, pone sobre la mesa esta grave problemática social que se encuentra a diario en las calles de las ciudades.

📰@publico.es

www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

16.02.2026 08:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🗣️ Shout-out to our team members Susana Neves Alves, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and @pkotsila.bsky.social who participated in @icta-uab.bsky.social s campaign for #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience! #11F

12.02.2026 12:05 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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👉 JOB ALERT! 📣 We’re looking for a Field Assistant in #Marseille 🇫🇷 to support workshops, participant recruitment & data collection for the @erc.europa.eu IMBRACE project. Apply by 5 Feb! imbrace-erc.org/call-for-fie... #recherche #JusticeClimatique @icta-uab.bsky.social

19.01.2026 13:22 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨"Living on the streets is also a climate issue" Our researcher @andreamcintosh.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social explains how climate change deepens vulnerability among homeless people in Barcelona, based on her research and the recent street count w/ Arrels Fundació #Homelessness #ClimateJustice

15.01.2026 14:09 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This event was hosted by Fundación La Caixa and coorganized by @isglobal.bsky.social

08.01.2026 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌡️Heatwaves are one of the most invisible, yet deadly, climate risks in cities. In this clip, @pkotsila.bsky.social talks about climate vulnerabilities in El Raval, Barcelona, 1 of our key case studies ▶️https://palaumacaya.fundacionlacaixa.org/es/p/comunidad-reconstruccion-y-resiliencia_a172936012

08.01.2026 14:57 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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✨🎄Wishing everyone a warm holiday season ❄️

19.12.2025 14:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Radical Civic Practices: The Future of Urban Environmental Justice Studies in a Highly Unequal World This collection invites research on environmental justice challenges in cities and urban areas and their governance.

📢 Hey! Submission for this call is extended until March 10! 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/bjddhegddh #climatejustice #environmentaljustice

17.12.2025 18:12 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Methodologies - IMBRACE

⬇️You can download the full descriptions of each #methodology as a PDF with detailed information, step-by-step guidance, and examples! imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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5️⃣ Walk-alongs 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
We walk with participants through their everyday routes to
observe, discuss & reflect on how urban spaces & climate hazards shape wellbeing. imbrace-erc.org/walk-alongs/

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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4️⃣ Postcards from the Future ✉️
Imagine your neighborhood in 2040. Draw, collage, or write your climate-resilient, wellbeing-focused future.
Foresight meets lived experience. imbrace-erc.org/postcards-fr...

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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3️⃣ Photovoice 📸
Photos capture daily realities of vulnerability, resilience & adaptation priorities — personal stories become collective insight. imbrace-erc.org/photovoice/

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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2️⃣ Urban Climate Relief Maps 🗺️
Map your city: where you feel safe, uncomfortable, stressed, or cared for. Shows how identity & environment intersect: gender, race, class, heatwaves, floods...all together. imbrace-erc.org/urban-climat...

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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1️⃣ Body Mapping 🖌️
Participants draw & annotate life-sized body outlines.
Emotions, memories, climate & #migration experiences become visible — literally in the body. imbrace-erc.org/body-maps

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🌍 How do climate & environmental changes affect health in migrant communities? In IMBRACE, we explore this through participatory, feminist and transdisciplinary methods: #bodymaps #photovoice #walkalong... click through to learn about each one 🧵 👇 imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/ #climatejustice

09.12.2025 11:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Bringing @imbrace-erc.bsky.social to this conference, inserting issues of social justice to discussions of #OneHealth and #PlanetaryHealth

27.11.2025 10:21 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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🎓💥What happens when you try to do #militantresearch from within #academia? In a new paper our researcher Sergio Ruiz Cayuela explores the everyday tensions, contradictions, and negotiations that shape politically engaged research for professional scholars👇

14.11.2025 12:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🔊 @fundaciosurt.bsky.social @comunicacioaccc.bsky.social @creurojacat.bsky.social @fundaciosurt.bsky.social @caritaseuropa.bsky.social @migrastudium.bsky.social @acathi.bsky.social @calalafondo.bsky.social @caladona.bsky.social #TotRaval #Braval

07.11.2025 10:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🧡 Busquem persones migrants que visquin al Raval (Barcelona) i que s’hagin vist afectades per les onades de calor per participar en un taller de recerca remunerat sobre justícia climàtica. Ajuda’ns a fer-ne difusió!
#JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ElRaval

07.11.2025 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis

In light of the new Lancet report on climate and health:

"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"

while

"every heat-related death is preventable".

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

30.10.2025 09:12 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

💧 Our Floods report reviews how flooding intersects w/ migration, health + inequality, revealing how racism, and marginalization deepen climate vulnerability. Floods are becoming more frequent and destructive across EU, but their health impacts aren’t felt equally👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...

24.10.2025 15:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

☀️ Our Heat report maps how extreme heat interacts with inequality, housing, and discrimination, identifying 8 key drivers of vulnerability. Europe’s deadly heatwaves are a growing health crisis, with over 61K heat-related deaths in 2022 alone 👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...

24.10.2025 15:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

✍️ @pkotsila.bsky.social @susananevesalves.bsky.social Fizza Fatima, Kim West, Sergio Ruiz Cayuela

24.10.2025 15:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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As the planet heats and floods intensify, who is most at risk? We're taking advantage of #DayOfClimateAction to share our 2 reports on how #climatechange deepens health inequalities for migrants in Europe how justice should lead adaptation 👇
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay

24.10.2025 15:19 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
P017: Living with the Weather: Everyday Adaptations, Urban Inequalities, and Justice-Centered Climate Responses The format intended is a panel of short presentations and a common discussion. We will invite up to 5 panel participants.

Here is our panel with colleagues from @bcnuej.bsky.social, consider sending your presentation proposal by DEC 5th via the link below, for the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference to be held in Barcelona end of June 2026!

nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

09.10.2025 10:45 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Call for presentations & posters - POLLEN The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

shorturl.at/fCGhB

09.10.2025 02:10 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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🏙️ On #WorldHabitatDay we highlight how #housing inequality shapes #climateustice in EUcities. ‼️ #Migrants + refugees are more likely to live in overcrowded, poorly insulated homes, increasing heat-related health risks and deepening social vulnerability. @icta-uab.bsky.social @bcnuej.bsky.social

07.10.2025 11:54 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Flexible Athens-based assistant job in our IMBRACE project - PM me with any questions 🙏

07.10.2025 08:18 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0