Together with OpEn – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Information and Engagement Fund – we explore how innovative organisations, artists, activists, and businesses create local engagement around global development. Look forward to inspiring talks, panel discussions, and workshops designed to spark new ideas for innovative forms of engagement and ways to mobilise your target audiences.
Today, we reveal a selection of exciting programme highlights from this year’s GRASP Vidensfestival.
You’ll dive into the mechanisms that make societies shift, people act, and hope grow. We’ll explore how behavioural change occurs, how we can understand and shape social norms, and how to put words, images, and stories to the many layers of the climate crisis – from childhood landscapes to Africa’s coastlines. The programmes are supported by OpEn – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Information and Engagement Fund.
You’ll also have ample opportunity to connect with partners, networks, and peers – all working with education and global engagement.
How can small, targeted efforts set major, self-reinforcing changes in motion?
With insights from research and real-life examples, Rune Baastrup demonstrates how positive social tipping points can serve as a powerful driver of green transition.
Join us as Rune Baastrup explores how norms, behaviours, and systems can “tip” toward sustainability – and how municipalities, civil society, and decision-makers can strategically create the right conditions.
How do we tell the story of the climate crisis through personal encounters and powerful portraits? Under the Same Moon is a travelogue from the frontline of climate change – and a glimpse into the African reality where drought threatens communities in one part of the continent while rising seas erode the coastlines of another.
Author Peder Frederik Jensen and photo journalist Anders Rye Skjoldjensen share insights from their work on the book Under the Same Moon – a travelogue from the frontlines of climate change.
How do we navigate a world shaped by climate change, uncertainty, and systemic crises? And how do we maintain hope – without turning our backs on reality?
Norwegian psychologist, economist, and author Per Espen Stoknes takes us on a journey that begins in the wild landscapes of childhood and leads to a deeper understanding of the climate crisis – both its external and internal dimensions.
How did the electric car become the obvious choice? Why are meat-free days no longer considered radical? And how do new forms of collaboration spread across organisations?
Social change rarely happens by chance – it often follows a pattern we can learn to understand and use. This workshop, based Democracy X’s work, delves into positive social tipping points – the moments when norms and behaviours shift rapidly because the change feels both meaningful and possible. From here, transformation spreads like ripples in water – often faster than expected.
OpEn – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Information and Engagement Fund – aims to make global awareness, solidarity, and engagement a shared public responsibility. Global development concerns us all.
OpEn, administered by CISU – Civil Society in Development and the Roskilde Festival Foundation in collaboration with Democracy x and The Why Foundation, will distribute approximately DKK 21 million annually until 2029 to projects that promote knowledge, opinion, and action in Denmark on global development.
See the published festival programmer here and sign up here.
Read more about OpEn: https://openpuljen.dk/om-open/