BIP: Narratives for Action: Translating Climate Goals into Personal and Collective Engagement

NORD University
Online: 03.02-17.03.2027 | On-site (Bodø): 08.03. – 13.03.2027
55 hours in total
English B2

This interdisciplinary Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) invites students to explore how storytelling, children’s literature, filmmaking, art, and indigenous knowledge can be used to translate global sustainability challenges into meaningful personal and collective action. Participants will engage critically with themes such as climate change, ocean protection, environmental justice, migration and refugees, war and conflict, poverty, and Indigenous perspectives, particularly Sámi perspectives. Drawing on the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), students will develop reflective and creative responses to complex societal challenges. Through online preparation, collaborative learning, keynote lectures, workshops, place-based learning experiences, and a hands-on film production project, students will work in international teams to create short films that communicate narratives of hope, responsibility and action. The programme culminates in a film showcase and reflection session where participants present their work and receive feedback from staff and peers.

Application deadline : 15.12.2027

Nomination deadline: 01.12.2027

Participants must be nominated by the International office or the SEA-EU office at their home university.

Tasks and duties entrusted to the student:

Participants should:

  • have a set up with camera and microphone for digital sessions
  • bring a laptop
  • install the selected video-editing software before arrival
Skills to be acquired or developed:

Upon completion of the BIP, participants will be able to:

  • Critically analyse major sustainability challenges through interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives
  • Explore how narratives influence attitudes, engagement and action related to sustainability
  • Understand the role of multimodal storytelling, art and filmmaking in environmental communication
  • Reflect on climate change, ocean protection, migration, conflict, poverty and Indigenous issues through creative methodologies
  • Develop competencies associated with the Inner Development Goals, particularly in the domains of Thinking and Acting
  • Collaborate effectively in international and multidisciplinary teams
  • Produce and communicate sustainability narratives through short-film production
FLUinternational@nord.no