It has been about two years since we started this site and the work is progressing well. Thank you to all the frequent and new commers to the site and the great energy that is provided in the sustainability education community. We look forward to meeting you soon at the symposium and creating great dialogue and action towards transforming sustainability education. For more information about the symposium, here are the details:
Competence development in sustainable development entails the definition and promotion of a set of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes necessary in order to achieve a sustainable future. Whereas competence building on sustainable development is relevant across all fields in both undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, integrating it across all core programmes may be challenging. Also, it is largely unclear how best this work should be undertaken, and which approaches, diadactics, methods and strategies may yield the highest impact.
It is on the basis of the need to address this perceived gap, and to foster a dialogue among persons working in the field of competence building, that that the Symposium “Competence Building on Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programmes” is being organised, and will be held in Umeå, Sweden, on 22nd-23rd February 2024.
The event is being organised by the Umeå Univeristy in Sweden, the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR), the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme and the UK Consortium for Sustainability Research (UK-CSR) .
It is primarily aimed at European participants, but delegates from other parts of the world are also welcome to attend, and use this unique opportunity to meet others with interest in the field, document and disseminate their work. The Symposium will serve the purpose of discussing how competence building on sustainability may be better incorporated in university education. It is part of the “Accelerating the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Series”, which organises events aimed at fostering the implementation of the UN SDGs around the world.
As output and long-term documentation of the event, selected papers will be published in the book “Competence Building on Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programmes”, which will follow on the success of the “Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education”, which is a
“living edition” and the “Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals”, the world´s largest editorial project on sustainable development ever undertaken.
The book will be part of the World Sustainability Series the leading peer-reviewed book series on matters related to sustainable development. The last volume, “Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future” has just been launched: The peer-reviewed nature of the book means that contributions to them have been officially counting over the years for promotion and tenure purposes. To date, over 3.000 sustainability researchers have had their work published in the series.
Expressions of interest to attend the event, initially consisting of a 200 words abstract outlining the paper and with the full contact details of the author(s) should be sent to the ESSSR/IUSDRP team at: info@iccip.net
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10th December 2023. Full papers are due by 30th April 2024. The details will be discussed with the selected authors.
More details can be seen if you click on this link.
This week we reflect on sustainability didactics: What activities have inspired you to transform the sustainability education you teach? How have you implemented sustainability education activities into the lessons you teach? Why have the approaches you have applied been a success or a challenge to help transform sustainability education in your work context?
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