Category: Our News
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Sustainable Futures Workshop
Over the past few weeks, I have facilitated workshops with different groups of students that study across subjects at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and we have had a really inspiring experience. The students envisioned possible projects that can provide learning experiences for regenerative futures. As part of the Impact Network for Regenerative…
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Green Biking Initiative
This week I have been talking with Angel Costa-Perales and Lars jacob, students who are involved with the Impact Network for Regenerative Futures (IN4RF). Angel studies Agrifood and Biological Engineering at University Polytechnic Valencia (UPV) in Spain, with Dr. Guillermo Palau Salvador as the facilitating teacher. With this educational background, Angel is very aware of…
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Support, Inspiration and Leadership
Today I continue with an introduction to a member of the impact network for regenerative futures (IN4RF), the wonderfully warm hearted Dr. Paulina Navrouzoglou. Her fanatastic proactive leadership helped kick-off the impact networks’ next steps towards including student voices. Following last week’s introduction to one of Paulina’s students, I had the great opportunity to talk…
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Eventful Kick-Off!
It has been a busy beginning of term, working with different networks to create a space where we can collaborate and share narratives to support action towards transformations in sustainability education. International as well as national networks have recognized the opportunities in co-creating and co-inspiring efforts to reimagine sustainability education and the pursuit for regenerative…
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Have a good Summer, and Thanks!
As the midsummer approaches, we would like to express our thanks to all our collaborators, partners, educators, and students for their incredible contributions to sustainability education activities this academic year. We have discussed opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations across campus at Umeå university, in natural science, social science, and the arts, and with educators at the…
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Creative Mindsets Transform
We have been surrounded by creative minds these last few weeks. Dr. Jos Eussen inspired us with his telling of the first transdisciplinary class in the Hyperion project that took place earlier this year. His overall feelings about the experience were largely positive with encouraging feedback from the students and all involved. The students were…
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Transdisciplinary Networks Make an Impact
We have had a wonderful discussion with Dr. Michèle Gemünden and Dr. Marion Lehner at ETH Zurich about their experience applying the sustainability competence mindset map. Their insight into how the different disciplines approach sustainability in the classroom have proven very valuable and new insights about the effect of cultural differences have emerged. Our preconceptions…
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International Student Exchange Opportunities
We have been talking with colleagues at Umeå University to support student learning for sustainability. Dr. Jos Eussen has provided us with the opportunity to organise an international exchange activity for students at Umeå University and with students enrolled on a transdisciplinary course at Maastricht University. The event aims to provide a student-led learning space…
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Conversations to Promote a Caring Mindset
Last week we had the great pleasure of meeting with Birgitta Nordén an educational developer at Malmö University. Birgitta told us about the wonderful work she has been doing on several programs, including the New Young Master’s Programme in sustainability that works with young students to engage in sustainability challenges. We will be following the…
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Nordic Collaborations for Innovative Education
Since the symposium we have been very busy with some work to collaborate on a paper about using the futuring method in pedagogical activities in education. We have been working with participants of the workshop we held at the symposium to gather reflections and practical applications of the methods discussed at the event last February.…