Tag: Collaboration
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Interdisciplinary Action-Minded Inspiration: How do you do it?
This week we welcomed a new student, William Sayles, to the Glasgow University team connected to the IN4RF project. In dialogue with William, I found out about the great contributions he will be able to make through his interdisciplinary background. William is studying on a dual degree program in Environmental GeoScience and Economics. He has…
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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.…
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Fantabulous Interdisciplinary Symposium on Sustainability Competence in Higher education
We had some very encouraging and ardent discussions at the symposium we held last week. Thank you to everyone who came to contribute to the work and provide insight into how sustainability education is experienced in so many different countries and cultures. We would like to thank Professor Walter Leal and Bianca Rebelatto for supporting…
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Projects Ahoy!
It has been a while since I updated our news on the project and thought that I would let you all know that we received enthusiastic support from several universities in the Baltic region to join us. Some of the major partners include Gdánsk university in Poland, Odessa university in Ukraine, Åbo university in Finland…
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Happy New Year!
Welcome to the new year and a great start we are having on the project. We were able to catch up with our partners in Poland, dr Krzysztof Szczepaniak and Jolanta Mrozek at the Center for Sustainable Development, University of Gdańsk. Together, we have started to organise some really exciting work with several other universities…