Tag: Sustainability
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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…
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Time For The Term To End
A Heartfelt Thank You to All Contributors We extend our sincere thanks to all the contributors who have dedicated their time and expertise to enriching our collective efforts. Your valuable contributions have played a pivotal role in shaping our shared success and fostering a community of collaboration and growth. It is through your commitment and…
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International Communities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Last week, we had the pleasure to meet with Alexandra Häglund, one of the new team members at UTRI, a group dedication to transformation research at Umeå University. UTRI have been helping us to organise the symposium about sustainability competence in higher education that will take place in February 2024. The deadline has passed for…
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Sustainability Competence Capacity Building in Higher Education
Professor Inga Schmidt-Ross and Professor Susanne Hensel-Börner who work at Hamburg School of Business Administration reached out to us to discuss a potential collaboration with our project and we had the great pleasure of meeting with them earlier in the week. The school has a great opportunity to help students to connect real-world sustainability challenges…
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The Art of Putting Knowledge into Action
Last week we caught up with Kate McBain, consultant and course director in transdisciplinary practices at BIMM Univeristy. The plans for us to collaborate on a performance with the Pirates of the Carabina have been coming along nicely. Together we will provide interactive activities for all participants at the AoMo conference held in Nancy, France…
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Two Years Later!
It has been about two years since we started this site and the work is progressing well. Thank you to all the frequent and new commers to the site and the great energy that is provided in the sustainability education community. We look forward to meeting you soon at the symposium and creating great dialogue…
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Interdisciplinary Insights for the Future
Last week I held a seminar with the great people of the Várdduo centre for Sami research at Umeå University. As I presented the project and what has been done so far, which is rooted in business school culture, we also discussed the opportunities to take the project on a journey towards northern Sweden’s Sámi…
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When Time Flys By
The last few weeks have been some very busy teaching weeks. We are continuing our plans for the symposium on Sustainability Competencies in higher education that will be held at Umeå Univeristy in 2024. If you are interested in the event, send in an abstract of your project by the end of the month. On…
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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…