Registration Open | The 2025 China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) Summer School (7th Edition)
The 7th Edition
2025 China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) Summer School
Recruitment is now open!
Here, you will find:
Opportunities to speak face to face with academicians and leading scholars
A platform for mutual learning with outstanding scholars
A stage to develop your academic and research abilities
Systematic courses on carbon emission accounting
Rich, diverse, and enjoyable team-building activities
Here:
As waves rise on the Seine and tides surge on the Yangtze, carbon-policy discussions and new knowledge come together
Now is the time to act. Join us!
Call for Applications
To advance dual-carbon action and strengthen young people with insight and leadership in climate mitigation, the China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) team has successfully held six carbon accounting summer schools since 2016. The program has received broad attention and strong support from policymakers, managers, researchers, and young scholars in China and abroad, and its influence across policy and academic communities has continued to grow.
The CEADs team is committed to building the summer school into a signature program that cultivates interdisciplinary talent with strong professional skills, practical ability, and a focus on the 2030 carbon peaking and 2060 carbon neutrality goals.
This summer, the CEADs team will continue with the 7th Summer School. Experts and scholars from China and abroad will develop a training curriculum, provide systematic guidance on carbon accounting methodology, practice guidelines, and case-based teaching, build an academic exchange platform, and create a public-benefit training model to support the growth of dual-carbon talent.
Talent is the foundation of long-term progress. Governments, universities, and enterprises interested in jointly hosting this public-benefit summer school and in helping train and reserve young talent for China dual-carbon work are welcome to contact us so that we can build a broader education platform together. Contact: Ceads2025@163.com.
Application Requirements
Students interested in joining the summer school should send a CV and one representative paper, in either Chinese or English, to Ceads2025@163.com by May 31, 2025. Please use the email subject line "2025 Summer School - Name - Institution". The CEADs team will notify selected participants by email before June 15.
Dates: July 25-August 3, 2025. Participants should check in on July 24.
Location: To be confirmed.
Participation format: Full offline attendance is required.
Notes:
- No registration fee will be charged for the summer school. Participants are responsible for their own transportation, accommodation, and meals. Details on participant scholarships will be announced in a follow-up post.
- Questions about this summer school can be sent to Ceads2025@163.com.
Highlights from Previous Summer Schools
Harbin, China
Lectures by Leading Experts
The organizers invited experts and scholars in the dual-carbon field to deliver lectures and build a training curriculum. The program aims to contribute to national training of outstanding dual-carbon talent while creating an international, high-standard exchange platform for a new generation of interdisciplinary young dual-carbon professionals.
Group Work and Collaboration
Balanced Learning and Diverse Activities
During the summer school, with support from the co-organizers, the CEADs team prepared a wide range of outdoor activities for participants, including visits to red education bases, outdoor water-gun activities, and summer evening events. Students made lasting memories and built close friendships.
Outstanding Participants and Lively Exchange
The 2024 inaugural China-France Carbon Neutrality Summer School and China Emission Accounts and Datasets Summer School was held in Harbin. At the closing ceremony, 19 groups made up of participants from different countries, age groups, universities, and research fields delivered roadshow presentations based on their summer-school research. The presentations covered four major themes: city carbon accounting, carbon accounting for emerging economies, corporate carbon accounting, and carbon accounting yearbooks.
Media Coverage and Broad Impact
The 2024 inaugural China-France Carbon Neutrality Summer School and China Emission Accounts and Datasets Summer School was reported or reposted by media platforms including CCTV, People's Daily, China Daily, China Youth, NetEase News, Carbon Emissions Trading Network, Sina Finance, Tencent, Northeast Network, Heilongjiang Daily, Longshi News, and Longtou News.
Reflections from Previous Participants
Yang Chunran, University of Pennsylvania
The ten-day summer school was a valuable life experience. During this period, participants had the chance to meet academic role models they had long admired and to learn and grow together with like-minded new friends. Beyond intensive academic training, exchanges and discussions also sparked new thinking and ideas.
My biggest gain was improving computer programming and data processing skills. Before this program, I had almost no experience conducting this kind of research project. When we encountered difficulties, we discussed them within the group, and if we still could not solve them, we asked the instructors for help. Our communication and interpersonal skills also improved through this process. I received a great deal of training during the summer school and benefited greatly from it.
Junior Scholars Group
Lu Weimin
Wang Wenqiang, Shandong University
Participating in the CEADs Summer School was a completely new academic experience for me. During the program, many leading scholars delivered professional academic lectures, and dedicated instructors answered questions throughout. Group research creation and final presentation were especially meaningful because they allowed everyone to put what they had learned into practice. Everyone grew very quickly.
