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What I great workshop it was! Thank you Eva van den Dungen for an excellent visual facilitation of our creative ideas :) Working daily on campus operations, employees are constantly challenged to think ahead. How can today's investments reduce our carbon footprint in fifty years? Which landscaping decisions will reduce heat in ten years? How will hybrid or online studying influence enrolment? These questions reflect their efforts to navigate uncertainty —how their decisions influence the future.  Despite our best efforts, expertise and degrees, we can't predict the future with certainty; instead, we face a spectrum of different futures. Every decision we make influences the trajectory toward a specific future. Thanks to backasting theory we can dive into the futures thinking framework to explore these potential pathways, identify preferred futures, and outline possible steps to realize them. I highly recommend it in the professional and personal life! So, what will your campus look like in 2124? What do you need to do today to achieve it? Stefanie Essaadi thank you once again for co-creating the workshop!

💚 Enabling Academia-Industry Partnerships for Sustainability 🌍 Today we had the great pleasure of engaging with the Global Ambassadors of Sustainability community to discuss about how to enable academic-industry partnerships to drive sustainability transformation across sectors! Moderated by Dr. Wesam Al Madhoun, Georgeta (Vidican) Auktor, Ph.D.and Dave Rice discussed about different models of industry - academia collaborations to drive sustainability impact and harness mutual benefits for education, business, and the larger society. 💡 A key takeaway has been that universities have to walk the talk when it comes to sustainability, by integrating relevant practices across their key pillars (education, research, and entrepreneurship). Also, industry partners need to approach universities with more flexible and creative ways of engaging students and faculty in solutions-oriented projects. The model of the Technical University of Munich does offer a variety of formats and best practices about how to structure such partnerships for sustainability. 🚀 For more learnings on how to enable sustainability transformation at universities and how to harness such collaborations, do take a look at our upcoming course on Fundamentals of Sustainable Universities starting in November: https://lnkd.in/eszSKw-U 💫 Thank you Wesam for the invitation and the audience for the great questions and discussion! #sustainability #industry #cooperation #universities #sustainabilityatHEI #TUMint

Exciting news! Thrilled to announce that starting from March 1st, I am joining the International Team at Hochschule Trier, Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld as a Project Collaborator for "Global Innovation for Sustainable Futures." This initiative focuses on #internationalization, #digitalization, and #sustainability. Looking forward to contributing to this transformative project over the next two years! #NewBeginnings #Sustainability #ProjectManagement #GlobalInnovation #SustainableFutures

We are thrilled in Laurea University of Applied Sciences to prepare our presentation to Sustainability Research + Innovation Congress 2024 in collaboration with Sustainability Science Days in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, and online, 10-14 June 2024. In our interactive roundtable of Higher Education Learning Ecosystems for Urban Sustainability, we address the following themes: 1) How can we promote ecosystem-level cooperation to create new knowledge and practices to solve complex, both local and global challenges? 2) How can we apply our various pedagogical models and methods for bringing together both current and future researchers and decision-makers? 3) How can we guarantee equal opportunities for everyone in the higher education community to work and study in order to achieve the aforementioned goals? 4) How can Inner Development Goals help us boost Agenda2030 achievement in higher education institutions and thereby also support the development of inclusive, sustainable, and resilient cities? Our presentation is connected to InCITIES – Trailblazing Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities, a Horizon-Europe-funded project carried out in 2022-2025. https://lnkd.in/d-zU5TXZ Please join us on June 14th 2024 online or in-person! #InCITIES

✨ Thrilled to complete the COIL Course on Innovative Approaches towards a Sustainable Society! I'm proud to have been part of a global learning journey, exploring sustainable solutions with international peers of Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Key Takeaways: - Integrating sustainability into diverse lifestyles. - Strategies for promoting sustainable development and ethical responsibility - Power of global collaboration and diverse perspectives Grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow with a talented group of individuals. #Sustainability #GlobalCollaboration

In an era of rapid technological advancement and sustainable development it is important to find the right amalgamation of innovation and sustainable to foster responsible growth. My passion for sustainability started since 2021 during a research project where I throughly studied about the growing waste crisis due to growing technological development. To back the passion with relevant theories and knowledge I decided to enroll in this course by Lund University. The course was designed as beginner friendly and focused on key concepts and theories for a better understanding of sustainability and business practices for a sustainable business growth. I overall enjoyed learning about sustainability and relevant business practices through this course.

Want to be educated to help change the world? Whether in healthcare, food, mobility or finance – to ensure just and sustainable futures for all, we need to transform just about every system in the coming decades. Would you like to learn how to understand, empower, accelerate, help guide and influence these transitions ahead? Erasmus University Rotterdam offers a transdisciplinary Master in Societal Transitions! Combining knowledge from various disciplines and practice, the program teaches students how to understand, interpret and work on complex societal sustainability challenges. It is based on transformative learning, including attention for reflexivity and personal growth. But also doesn't work towards a traditional thesis, but they work as a team on a transformative intervention to actually make a change together, use it to better understand a specific societal challenge and the potential of radical transition. 

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 We humans place ourselves outside of nature all too easily. Does this also endanger our own survival. We need to work towards a future in which we become an integral part of nature once again. The fundamental changes required for this demand action. An all-encompassing transition in which science plays a crucial role. Radboud University gives sustainability a prominent place in education, research and operations. Choose one of the summer courses on this topic and contribute to a sustainable world.  Because you have a part to play.  Sustainability courses: https://lnkd.in/e7CHJ67C Radboud University and sustainability: youhaveaparttoplay.nl #summerschool #summercourses #youhaveaparttoplay #jebentnodig #sustainability  

Now we are finishing our summer school and it represents the end of our second semester in Spain coursing the Erasmus Mundus Master IMATEC. First, it was Czech Republic, currently Spain and soon will be Finland. I am so excited thinking about the challenges and experiences that it implies. Circular Economy is a pillar for a more sustainable future. #internationalmaster #erasmusmundus #circulareconomy #chemicalengineering

That is SUCH a great and important question: How can we reconcile the present generation's needs and aspirations with the next generation's (same or different) needs and aspirations? It's not THEIR future - it's OUR future as the older generation, too! Where can each single one of us start to work towards a future that's worth seeing? It's not just about the environment (but that, too!), it's about how we want to live - together, as individuals, politically, economically, physically. Let's see this more as a common project than an opposition of people in charge today and people who have to deal with the effects tomorrow. Here's a great and readily accessible online course (just donate a little of your time for seven weeks in a row) that gives you an understanding of everything #sustainability actually encompasses and then helps you develop practical skills to put this understanding into action: "Think Global, Act Local: Finding Solutions for Sustainability Challenges" at FUB-ContinuEd - Freie Universität Berlin Continuing Education Program starts another round this May and June. Think about it: It might actually be easier to start by teaming up with others and by changing your workplace organisation, your company's carbon output, your corporate contribution to social projects in the community etc. Once you see the effect of what a group can do, changing your personal habits, too, is just a small step. So join expert coach Ursel Biester and participants from all over the world and make a difference in 2024! Details on the course and registration process in the post below. See you online soon! #lifelonglearning #onlinecourse #sdgs #globalchallenges FU-BEST | Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Program Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University (FUBiS) Maria Heckmann