VEPSS will offer a diverse and engaging program focused on environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, and the intersection of human and nonhuman perspectives in the Anthropocene. The curriculum includes a series of lectures and discussions led by various scholars, each addressing critical issues related to climate change, ethics, and sustainability.

The full programme for the Summer School will be published in the coming weeks. Key themes and topics will include:

• Hope and Environmental Grief: Ondřej Beran discusses the role of hope as a response to environmental grief, questioning its effectiveness in motivating action amidst the climate crisis.
• Biomimicry and Sustainable Design: Vincent Blok explores how biomimetic design contrasts with traditional engineering by drawing inspiration from nature’s sustainable practices, emphasizing the importance of mimesis in creating regenerative technologies.
• Geoethics and Post-Humanism: Critical reflections on geoethics are presented by Vincent Blok, who critiques Timothy Morton’s post-humanist perspective, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of human relationships within Earth’s systems.
• Animal Ethics in Geoengineering: Leonnie Bossert highlights the need for a non-anthropocentric approach to geoengineering, arguing that current climate ethics often overlook the interests of nonhuman animals.
• Language and Environment: Antony Fredriksson examines how language is shaped by our interactions with the environment, proposing that concepts are rooted in specific practices tied to particular landscapes.
• Climate Justice and Reparations: Laura García-Portela addresses climate injustice through the lens of reparations for loss and damage caused by climate change, emphasizing historical responsibility.
• More-than-Human Political Ecology: Iwona Janicka discusses how climate change necessitates redefining political concepts to include nonhuman entities as active participants in ecological narratives.
• Rewilding and Conservation: David Rozen investigates the evolving interpretations of wildness in conservation efforts, questioning whether rewilding can reconcile differing conservation ideologies in the Anthropocene.
• Feminist Perspectives on Climate Disasters: Vojtěch Svěrák and Julita Skotarska analyze climate disasters through feminist scholarship, highlighting structural injustices that affect marginalized communities during such events.
• Environmental Interventions: Benjamin Hale critiques technocratic solutions to environmental problems, advocating for deeper moral considerations regarding intervention strategies.
• Climate Fiction: Nicole Seymour focuses on contemporary literature depicting flooding and drought as reflections of climate change impacts, exploring narrative techniques that convey these themes.
• River Management Misconceptions: Anna Barcz examines historical misconceptions about river management in Europe, proposing interdisciplinary approaches to improve current strategies based on cultural narratives.
• Rethinking East European Environmentalism: Petr Jehlička argues that East European environmental research provides valuable insights that challenge the notion of marginal scholarship, emphasizing the importance of existing sustainability practices over Western-centric concepts. 
• Rewilding and Environmental Transformations: Marianna Szczygielska explores the potential of rewilding initiatives, such as the Rewilding Oder Delta, as responses to biodiversity loss, questioning their feasibility amid ecological crises.