Tag: Netwrok
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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 Network, Collaborations and Inspiration for Student Engagement
It was great to catch up with Tony Wall, Professor at Liverpool John Mores University, to have a dialogue about our collaborations and project plans. We are developing a hackathon event together with several international participants to create inspiring support about teaching activities for teachers of education for sustainability. The event will take place on…
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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 out to technical advisors that can develop the platform further. The design of our platform has been inspired by our conversations about what you need…
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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 work experience students participate in to learn from organisations connected to the discipline they major in on their study programs. The students are tasked with…
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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 up to the workshops. At the universities involved with the Baltic University Group network, teachers are given a Sustainability Change Challenge assignment where the teachers…
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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 and discuss interesting topics about teacher didactics, the activities and instruction that is needed to work with a diverse range of students. The participants were…
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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 teachers that wanted to take part could discuss their own experiences and plans for advancing their ESD and build a network for ESD collaborations. In…