Workshop organised by Sara DEZALAY, with the support of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondation de la Catho de Lille.
Workshop: “Justice in action: rethinking the energy transition from the margins”
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Room LW 204, building ‘Louise Weiss’, Campus Saint Raphaël, 89 boulevard Vauban
This workshop aims to lay the foundations for a climate and energy justice clinic at the Catholic
University of Lille. Inspired by service learning, this initiative aims to pool interdisciplinary and
interprofessional knowledge by actively involving students in concrete actions with marginalized
populations or those at risk from the energy transition.
The workshop will serve as a collective think tank, bringing together researchers, practitioners,
public decision-makers, and field actors to identify the needs, existing models, and financing levers
for such a structure.
The goal: to build a truly fair energy transition, where law and justice become tools for inclusion,
social innovation, and sustainable transformation.
As such, it is a continuation of an interdisciplinary and intersectoral workshop organized at the
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, in February
2026 as part of a pilot network project, “Redistribution of Value in African Mining Value Chains: A
Research and Action Program,” funded by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH).
Programme
Dates and times:
- Thursday 9 April 2026, 9am to 8pm (open to the university community and the general public)
- Friday 10 April 2026, 9am to 12 noon (closed workshop — by invitation only)
Full programme coming soon
Contact
Sara Dezalay, Professeure à ESPOL – Université catholique de Lille
sara.dezalay@univ-catholille.fr
© Crédit photo : Ors I, Sarah Ritter, 2011