Catch up with all our latest activities, events and other news posted here below.
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Digging Deeper into the Decolonisation of Higher Education Systems
In the last couple of weeks, I have had the pleasure to join a group of higher education lecturers that will be discussing didactics in education for sustainability. In Sweden,…
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The Whole Student Approach as Global Citizens
We have continued our dialogue with Dr. Jos Eussen again this week, who very kindly introduced us to a project in Helsingborg Council, in Sweden. The education department has been…
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Empowering Mindset Transformation
At the moment, I am working with a new team of teachers to be a part of developing a new course about global challenges on a new program we have…
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Best Paper Award
At the European Symposium for Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practice we won Best Paper award for our Sustainability Competence Assessment Validation paper. We are very grateful for the…
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European Symposium on Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices
We just got back from Liverpool where we presented our project and met some fantastically inspiring and engaging ESDers. You will have to excuse the length of this blog item;…
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Art as an Actor for Transformation
Philippe M Jenny Helinairesse Pierre Guillet de Monthoux Karen van den Berg
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Action, Activities and the Next Act
This week we want to announce the opening of our services to you all. Firstly, we will provide a workshop series for teacher groups to help apply education for sustainability…
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New Partnerships: Support Through Art Education for Sustainability
This week we have been working with the inspiration that we could contribute a stream at The Art of Management & Organization 2024 conference. We have been talking with many…
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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Art
We had the pleasure to meet with some very inspiring minds and encouraging positive energy from several fantastic people this week. Firstly, we met with Katarina Pierre, Director of the…
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Art & Literature for Sustainability
We have had the pleasure of hosting Pierre Guillet de Monthoux from Stockholm School of Economics to discuss his passion of art and literature in different contexts. Pierre gave a…
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A Student-Centered Approach To a Happy New Year
In this very snowy new year (at least here in Umeå), we welcome you all back to our project about advancing education for sustainability. Last year, we had visitors from…
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Happy Winter Break Everyone!
Happy holidays to all! As the winter holiday season approaches, we wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your participation in our project this year. From the…
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A Virtual Living-Lab to Learn for Sustainability
Now that we have had more than a year of experience planning our platform, presenting our project and receiving great encouraging and valuable feedback from you all, we have reached…
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Learning For Sustainbaility and Gaining Knowledge About Sustainbility
This week we presented our project with an ESD group at KTH university. We had an interesting discussion about how the Sustainability Competence Assessment tool is designed and what type…
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A Network to Share and Support ESD
Like cogs in a system, our ideas keep on moving and progressing forward each time we meet someone new. Thank you to everyone this week for your contributions, whether big…
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ESD Learning Progression Step 1: Assessment Validation (update)
Picture from department of applied physics and electronics at Umeå University
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Transforming Mindsets
Talking with an ESD group at Gothenburg University this week, we had some interesting discussions about how to transform mindsets towards ESD. There are many teachers who are engaged in…
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Happiness Comes in Many Forms
On Monday, we received great news that our literature review article has been accepted at the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. We will post a link to the…
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An Explosion of Engagement
We have had the pleasure this week to discuss the work of education for sustainability with different lecturers at Örebro University. One program coordinator told us about how they have…
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Support For Shared Experience
This week Gert-Olof visited the FEKIS conference in Sweden to present our project. Experiences were shared and future participation was requested by fellow ESDers. A teacher reflected over the real-life…
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Sustainability Change Challenge Projects
In a course for teachers I took at Gothenburg University we were tasked with a sustainability change challenge. We planned something we considered that we could actually do to change…
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Welcomed Feedback From Fellow ESDers
Picture taken from presentation by Arjen Wals-Unlearning Unsustainable Behaviour
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Designing a Virtual Learning Platform for ESD
We have been busy designing several workshops for upcoming events that will apply our Sustainability Competence Assessment (SCA). There are nine different universities in the Baltic region that have signed…
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Great Aspirations
Our plans on how best to develop this platform so that we can provide the support everybody needs has begun to find assistance and inspiration in several different contexts. This…
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Supporting Students and Teachers Learning Progression for Sustainability
We have had a good response from several study programs this week. The students have taken part in the first round of the questionnaire that helps to inform teachers about…
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A New Academic Year, New Possibilities!
Hello everyone and welcome back to our weekly update on the project Advancing Education For Sustainability. We have been taking some time to reconnect with the natural world by swims…
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Conference week
Last week, we presented our project at a conference for teachers in higher education. The conference was held in Stockholm and online this year. There were many opportunities to listen…
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New ESD Workshop Series Comencing
Last week we were invited to take part in a workshop follow-up to a teacher in higher education course in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The idea was that all…
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Learning Progression Part 2: Instruction from above and below
This week we have been reflecting on what we have learnt so far about teacher support that exists and support desired. We have experienced several very engaged and supportive teachers…
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Learning Progression Part 1: Assessment
Our first steps to help support teachers advance education for sustainability is to provide an assessment tool that can inform teachers about their students’ competence in sustainability before they come…
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Course and Program Development for Sustainability
For the past few months, I have been working with a group of lecturers in the Baltic region to develop a PhD candidate course in sustainability. The initiative is part…
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The Language of Sustainability
There has been several conversations about language and the words chosen to convey information this week. The terms sustainability and sustainable development (Bolis et al. 2014) have created a discussion…
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Living Labs, Conferences and more…
This week we gave a follow up presentation and discussion with the humanities faculty at Umeå University. The director of studies and program coordinators gave very encouraging support and a…
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BUP Teacher’s Day
The Baltic University Program in Finland organised a teacher’s day where inspiration and action for ESD can take place. We presented our project and discussed our own inspirations. My colleague,…
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Social Science Faculty: Working with sustainability learning progression
After a presentation of our project to the social science faculty’s study directors and program coordinators at Umeå University, several departments have shown a keen interest in our project package.…
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ESD support for university lecturers
Each semester at umeå univeristy, our colleagues are offered a course that helps to develop knowledge about education for sustainble development. At the beginning of every seminar, a video is…
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More Have Come Aboard
Today we met with some great colleagues at the faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University, who will also test our questionnaire throughout their programs. Thank you everyone for…
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Partnership for sustainability grows
Several departments at the humanities faculty at Umeå University have agreed to use our questionnaire with student groups in every year of study. This collaboration helps us to provide information…
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Collaboration with Humanities Faculty
We have had a really encouraging meeting with the humanities faculty at Umeå University about how education for sustainability is progressing for their teachers. The humanities faculty have been discussing…
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Website Launched!
Finally, our website has been launched. You are all very welcome to take a look around and let us know what you think. If there is anything you think works…
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Happy New Year!
Our questionnaire has been tested in several different modules at several different departments and faculties across Umeå University. A great big thank you to everyone who have helped to test…
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Northern Narratives
Several local organisations have shared their narratives about learning for sustainability in practice. Together we have shared presentations and taken part in interviews where we have learnt a great deal…
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Västerbotten Forum: Agenda 2030
Sustainability requires competence – We have the tool for mapping! We gave a presentation about the project and how we can work with organisations to help develop competence for sustainability.
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Developing a Tool for advancing ESD in Education
We gave a presentation about the project and how we can collaborate on campus and across university campus sites. A round table discussion gave insightful input into how we work…
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SEE-Sustainability Week in Region Västerbotten 2021
What competence does your organisation have to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? We gave a presentation about the project and how we can work with organisations to help develop…
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