Dr. Franziska Gaupp
Aweledge has been developed by Franziska Gaupp out of an inner calling to integrate the world of science with more holistic sense-making practices. It is a response to growing frustration with the realization that scientific knowledge and information alone are not sufficient to prompt action on a societal scale.
Franziska Gaupp is an environmental scientist with more than ten years of research experience in climate risk modeling, systemic risk analysis and food system transformation.
She is convinced that the degree of change that is needed to prevent our Western societies from climate collapse requires more profound interventions than ‘fixing’ the current system.
With Aweledge, Franziska brings her skills and experience in hosting and facilitating transdisciplinary practices into the realm of climate change and sustainability to collectivley cultivate new ways of sense-making.
Research
Franziska Gaupp currently works at the University of Osnabrück, where she investigates the role of inner perception (e.g., mindsets, values) in the sustainability transformation. In addition, Franziska is a Senior Guest Scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany and a Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.
Fields of research: systemic risks, the global food system and societal transformation.
Education
Outreach
Science communication and outreach foster understanding, inspire curiosity and connect research with the broader community. With her expertise as a food system scientist, Franziska participates in events in the business and policy sector and serves as a conference speaker.
Podcast episodes
We expand the conversation on the biodiversity and climate crisis with aesthetic, ethical, historical and cultural perspectives. We do that by inviting thinkers, practitioners, stakeholders and researchers across different fields within the humanities to join us through talks, conversations, lectures and workshops that we share with you right here in the podcast.
Sudden surges in support for renewable energy, rapid shifts in public opinion on ethical issues, striking school children around the world – these are all examples of social tipping points. Director of the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen, sits down with Steve Smith from the University of Exeter in the UK and Franziska Gaupp from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany to talk about their shared research interest in positive social tipping points and how they work.
Join or read about University of Exeter’s conference on global tipping points in june 2025.
Eco Thoughts is produced by the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Being Underwater is a project about inner life in the digital age. Hosted by social entrepreneur and anthropologist Joana Breidenbach, this series of interviews tries to uncover the language we use to describe our inner worlds, as well as the tools or practices that help us decipher them. These conversations are important to engage in at any time, however with the onset of the digital age, they present a new urgency. As machines and algorithms threaten to know and understand us better than we do ourselves, we are faced with an evolutionary pressure to expand our consciousness and comprehend greater amounts of complexity. We must understand who we are, and what it is that we want, in order to define our relationship with technology, rather than allowing technology to define us. The project was conceived by Joana Breidenbach and edited by Siena Powers. Angus Sewell McCann composed the main theme music, and Vincent Augustus mixed the second theme. All visuals were created by Florentin Aisslinger.
Franziska ist Umweltwissenschaftlerin. Nach 10 Jahren Forschung in den Bereichen Klimarisiken und Transformation des Ernährungssystems, untersucht sie heute, wie Nachhaltigkeit mit innerer Arbeit verbunden werden kann.
Franziska hat am Environmental Change Institut an der Universität Oxford promoviert und danach an internationalen Forschungsinstituten wie dem International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) oder dem Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) gearbeitet. Früh hat sie die Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik und die Frage, wie Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft dienlich sein kann, interessiert. Als sie 2019 mit dem Format‚ Warm Data Labs‘ von Nora Bateson in Kontakt kam, begann sie sich für innere Arbeit, Reflektion und verschiedene Arten des Sense-makings zu interessieren. Während sie anfangs innere Arbeit und ihre wissenschaftliche Forschung als zwei getrennte Systeme wahrnahm, kam in ihr immer mehr der Wunsch auf, beides miteinander zu verbinden.
Dafür gründete sie das social transformation start-up ‚Aweledge‘ und arbeitet inzwischen an der Universität Osnabrück zum Thema innere Arbeit und Nachhaltigkeit. In ihrem derzeitigen Forschungsprojekt zu positiven sozialen Kipppunkten untersucht sie, ob Körperwahrnehmung zu anderen Lerneffekten führt als klassisches Brainstorming.
Mich hat die Begegnung mit Franziska sehr inspiriert. und es hat mir Mut gemacht, dass junge, engagierte UmweltWissenschaftlerInnen sich so ernsthaft mit Inner Work und Klimaforschung beschäftigen.
Facilitation
Facilitation can serve as the powerful catalyst transforming knowledge into a shared experience and impulses for action. It creates a collaborative environment that encourages open dialogue. Franziska likes to combine different elements of her facilitation and practice skill set to guide a group through dynamic learning and sense-making processes.
Training
- Art of Hosting (2023)
- Theory U (2022)
- Systemic Constellantions with Siegfried Essen (ongoing training since 2021)
- Non-violent communication (2020, 2023)
- Warm Data Labs – certified host with Nora Bateson (2019)
