Category: Our News
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A Flexible Space for Transforming Sustainability in Higher Education
This week we met with Judith Waller, lecturer at Mid-Sweden University, to listen to her experience of testing the sustainability competence mindset map tool with students on a new master program in Additive Manufacturing. The work she is doing to incorporate sustainability into the material is being designed on a student-centred basis for the present…
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A Call for the Symposium- Competence Building in Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs
This week we have been developing plans for the symposium that we are organising in collaboration with Professor Walter Leal and team at HAW Hamburg University and UTRI (a centre focusing on sustainability) at Umeå university. The symposium Competence Building in Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-graduate programs will be held at Umeå University on…
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Inspirational Collaboration Week
This week we have been creating space for follow-up discussions and workshops to create inspiration for the next steps of the Sustainability Competence Mindset Mapping tool progress. First, we caught up with Jennifer Pohlmann, deputy head of FTZ NK, at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. As we listened to the experience Jennifer has had at…
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Autumn Term Begins: Communication across disciplines
Last week, our team presented the project on the other side of campus. An invitation of Tom Korsman offered us the opportunity to speak at a pedagogical seminar about our project with environmental scientists, ecologists, and geoscientists. We recognized that effective communication with students, as well as fostering meaningful connections across disciplinary boundaries, has posed…
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A Summer to Reflect
As the term comes to an end (here in Sweden), we take time to reflect over the great people we have met this academic year. At the turn of the year, we began to ask you questions based on our dialogue with those we meet for you to reflect further on the website or in…
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Challenges, Tools and Inspiration
Last week, we had the pleasure to be introduced to Jennifer Pohlmann, Deputy Head of the Research and Transfer Center for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management, Head of Sustainability Unit and Senior Project Manager Digital Learning and Sustainability & Team Lead Office of Sustainability Services at Hamburg University. Jennifer told us about all the…
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Local, National and International Collaborations to Transform Education for Sustainability
We caught up with Krzysztof Szczepaniak, adjunct professor and director of the sustainability centre, and Jolanta Mrozek-Kwiatkowska, Manager of sustainability at the sustainability centre, both at the University of Gdańsk. We discussed a project that includes three universities in Gedansk: the University of Gedansk, the Technical University and the Medical University, which collaborate in teaching for…
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Implementing Sustainability Competencies in Practice: Putting Ideas Into Action
This week I have been in Helsinki, Finland, at the big European Accounting Association (EAA) conference, which held several symposiums about sustainability in accounting. Aalto University provided us with the opportunity to discuss the state of the art in regard to sustainability reporting, sustainability standards and diversity in academia. This is a giant leap for…
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A Student-Centreed Appraoch: Bouncing to a Different Sounding-Board Beat
Have you heard of Robert McKim’s (Professor Emeritus of Stanford’s Department of Mechanical Engineering) 30 circle creativity challenge?
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Anticipatory and Futures Thinking for Sustainability: Imaginations, Constructions and Preparations
Steven Curtis, Pedagogical Developer at Lund University, joined us this week to discuss how we can support each other in our work with education for sustainability. His background experience in technology, including video, audio and web development as well as a large passion in education for sustainability will be a great contribution to our project.…