Ave Scientia, morituri te salutant.
‘Reasearching and Shaping Climate Futures’ is a weekly course within the international Master programme ‘Integrated Climate System Sciences’ (ICSS) and was newly developed for the summer term 2023. It builds up the interdisciplinary teaching project ‘Uncertain 2 Degrees and its predecessor ‘Scales in the Climate System’, which were mandatory classes for all ICSS students from 2015 to 2023. We, seven lecturers from mathematics, communication science, biological and physical oceanography, sociology, geography and soil sciences, teach the course as a team and most of us will be present in every lecture. The course is based on inquiry-based learning and teaching, thus we do not determine what the outcomes of this course are ahead of time, but instead develop results and ideas together with you, students. The class is living from the experiences we gained during three years of team-teaching ‘Scales in the Climate System’ but it is an experiment for all of us. However, this course is explicitly meant to be more challenging and different from everything we all experienced before. We hope that all of us will enjoy this adventure for the next few months.