The Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network meeting in May 2024 saw three inspiring approaches to developing sustainability competencies, skills, and...
At this Network Meeting of practitioners at universities and colleges who work in relation to/are interested in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), we heard inspiring...
This hour long event is part of a series called 'Realigning Curricula for the Future' aiming to support specific subjects to implement sustainability in their teaching....
Watch videos and read about pedagogies that support learning for sustainability / Education for Sustainable Development in teaching.
This hour long event is part of a series called 'Realigning Curricula for the Future' aiming to support specific subjects to implement sustainability in their...
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Thought piece that forms a helpful baseline of the values and responses that run deep in Gen Z and therefore brings great value in understanding – and therefore helping to shape...
The following preliminary report uses data from semi-structured interviews with 10 international (non-domestic students) in Scotland to identify challenges and opportunities to...
EAUC-Scotland virtual 'Sustainability Sharing Series' October 2019 edition discussed Engaging Students at Green week and Beyond. We have produced a...
Students want their courses to address sustainability, and the University of Bath has made 'Citizenship and Sustainability' one of its key principles for curriculum...
The University of Westminster is take a different approach to communicating the benefits of going vegetarian by using the 'Part-time Carnivore Loyalty Card'
The University of Cambridge’s Sustainable Food Policy aims to reduce the central catering department’s impact on the environment through, among other initiatives,...
Reduce the Juice is a sustainability engagement programme for students living in residential halls. It empowers and encourages students to adopt sustainable behaviours through...
This report presents the findings of the Sustainability in Education survey conducted in 2017.
The RSPB believes that every child should be entitled to regular contact with the natural environment.
The University of British Columbia’s(UBC) long-term vision is to embed sustainability in all of its undergraduate teaching programs. The University has described four...
Eco-Schools student presentations, WWF Malaysia
This presentation is from the “Global Goals: Local Action” EAUC Annual Conference 2017, presented by Joe Bourne, Students Engagement Officer - Lancaster University...
This keynote session is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016.
This workshop presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
This workshop presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
A meeting and exploratory pathway which offers students who are interested in sustainable management a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of some inspiring...
In these Honours Classes students are acquainted with biotechnological practice in a biological lab under the direction of Prof. Dr. Robert Zwijnenberg and bio-artist Boo Chapple
In connection with specific societal challenges (food, raw materials, poverty, diversity, etc.) we offer students levers for implementing ESD at class and school level
Network for and by lecturers from teacher training programmes and interested parties from civil society. This learning network exchanges knowledge and builds expertise in...
Transitie UGent is a group of around 200 staff members, students and external stakeholders who are engaged in sustainable development at our university.
The design and construction of a solar car to compete in the world championship in Australia.
An example of good practice in Curriculum from Ecocampus (Belgium) Each year, the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of the University of Ghent organises a...
Project 'Corporate Social Responsibility' has been a compulsory course at the Faculty of Applied Economics for five years now. It is fleshed out through an integrated...
This course aims to introduce students to the complex field of sustainability thinking. The ambition is to approach sustainability challenges as central political issues for the...
In this free series of lectures - since 2014 also the basis of the university-wide optional course 'Sustainability Thinking' – each year one sustainability theme is...
This course discusses the positive and negative impact of logistics and mobility on society, economically as well as socially and ecologically. It focuses on how the sector can...
Systems and Scenario Thinking is a course within the minor 'Leadership in a globalising context', an optional package of 20 credits which Bioscience Engineering...
This workshop is an inspiring, interactive introduction to enable students to use the essential international component of sustainable development in their future professional...
This guideline highlights sustainable development as a guiding compass in education. Competences for sustainable development act as an important lever for this.
Future entrepreneurs are currently insufficiently prepared in mainstream programmes for their contribution to corporate social entrepreneurship. The ESF project HET IVOOR wanted...
Future preschool teachers are given a session on how the theme 'food' can be implemented in a sustainable way among preschoolers, with a balance between theory and...
Students work out an exhibition stand in interdisciplinary teams within the framework of a CSR market on 21 May 2015. Their audience will consist of students from the 5th and...
During a workshop future teachers learn about the vision on and are shown practical examples of bringing the world to the classroom.
Students with a different background and expertise try to solve a real business case together. In this way the project meets the needs of the business community
During 10 days participants from socio-educational care work and business studies in Flanders and other European countries (Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria, Finland and Germany) take...
The work package Ecodesign in Higher Education (EHE kit) provides concrete guidance to teachers, professors, programme coordinators and training councils to integrate ecodesign...
Ecocampus developed an ESD competence profile for graduated teacher training students (in cooperation with the teacher training learning network)
Every two years, PXL-Tech organises a Sustainability Day. During this Sustainability Day students and lecturers are given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with all...
FEVIA Trophy and Ecotrophelia are innovation competitions for food. They are aimed at the Flemish education sector and are organised by FEVIA, the Belgian Food Industry...
The Ecolizer calculates the environmental impact of your product quickly and easily. You can calculate the overall environmental impact, but also the impact of each phase in the...
Prof. Dr. Arjen Wals often begins his lectures by handing out pieces of a Happy Meal from fast food chain McDonald's. The students, divided into small teams, are all given...
The quest for sustainable development is a challenge for anyone who aspires to take responsibility in the present or future society.
Think global, act local! Become an ambassador in sustainable construction and save the climate. The program Bachelor in Construction attaches great importance to...
Each year, the University of Antwerp organises an international education project 'River 21 project: vision-building for transboundary river management’.
Within the framework of the module 'Kind in de wereld' (Child in the World), students work with current affairs
CORE cvba-so is a cooperative enterprise with a social purpose that was started and is managed by students who want to contribute actively to the sustainable development of our...
University college PXL orients its education towards learning for sustainable development. The Education Service works along two tracks to that end.
The participating organisations form a heterogeneous group, in which each organisation focuses on education, involves learners and/or provides services to educational...
Since the beginning of the 90s, the term 'sustainable development' has been widely adopted in common language
The Ecorace Challenge is a competition organised by nv De Scheepvaart and Waterwegen & Zeekanaal NV, two major waterway managers in Flanders.
Around the world there is growing attention to sustainability (including at KU Leuven). The many students' associations in Leuven that are engaged in sustainability and are...
The OVAM Ecodesign Award for students is open to all students enrolled in design studies for 3-dimensional products, such as product development, industrial design, product...
NUS has launched a brand new programme called Dissertations for Good, connecting students to off-campus organisations to complete research into sustainability together.
This presentation on 'Engaging Students through Practical Projects' was given as part of a morning workshop on Engaging and Emplowering Students at...
This presentation on 'The Power of Values: Co-designing Solutions' was given as part of a morning workshop on Engaging and Empowering Students at...
John McCann, Transport Services Manager, Queen’s University Belfast emailed the EAUC Transport Planning Network Community of Practice with his concerns over setting up a...
Read the 2015 NUS/HEA reports on student and employer demand for sustainability. Executive summary of both reports available here.
Waste Watchers – Bin Monsters Come Alive The “Waste Watchers – Bin Monsters Come Alive” programme, was a campaign designed to teach correct recycling...
Australian Environmental Law Moot The Australian Environmental Law Moot is a nation-wide mooting contest, open to all Law Schools across Australia. The Australian...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Claire George (IT Lecturer) is shaping the future development of young people within Wales, in addition to developing innovative...
A case study from Interface where Human Nature, the latest global collection from the modular flooring manufacturer, has been used in the refurbishment of the University of...
This presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, presented by The University of Nottingham and falls under the Learning, Teaching...
Foundation resource for students based on the principle that all students should leave post-secondary education with at least an appreciation of the role the environment will...
Love your Planet Fest is a week long celebration of all things green, eco-friendly and fun! This resource captures the events scheduled.
The University of Manchester Students' Union and the Atrium are delivering an "Earth Week" and a separate "Green Week". This resource contains...
Students’ Green Unit: Students shaping sustainability through behavioural change The Students’ Green Unit bridges the gap between student action and academic...
Assessing the global competences of students is a major challenge - and even more so, when the aim is to compare them across nations and cultures.
UCU has been involved in the production 2 x 5 minutes videos that illustrate the award winning work we have been doing in SW London
Presentation, by Kirsti Norris and Andrea Gewessler, from 18th EAUC Annual Conference 2014 on engaging students through Student Wisdom Councils.
A video of NUS Students' Green Fund, a £5 million grant from HEFCE, supporting 25 transformative sustainability projects in students' unions across England.
Details of work with English language students at Oxford Brookes University, in conjunction with their wider work on the integration of sustainability into the curriculum.
A report on the Futures Initiative which seeks to develop sustainability perspectives in academic life at Canterbury Christ Church University.
A case study from an LSIS funded project called Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change which focused on embedding a sustainable development ethos within learning delivery,...
EAUC Member responses about schemes to reuse and recycle material left by students who move out of halls at the end of the academic year.
Oakhurst Primary School in Swindon has worked closely Interface, the leading manufacturer of sustainable and innovative modular flooring, to kit out its brand new school...
On the evening of Friday 27th April 2012, 255 students and staff at the University of Southampton successfully completed the first campus-wide energy audit.
The following presentations are taken from the ‘Equipping Students with the Skills for Our Changing World’ conference.
EAUC Member responses about taking part in an Everest type challenge to encourage staff to use the stairs rather than the lift.
This case study explores how the Wheeltop Project of Beaumont College uses ICT to support the learning and development of physically disabled students.