Making the links: Bringing together Enterprise and Sustainability Education

Presentation from 18th EAUC Annual Conference 2014

Stream: Learning, Teaching and Research

Competency level: More advanced / On the road

Description:

Chalk and cheese or different ways into similar agendas? This session explores what happened when people involved in sustainability or enterprise at over 20 Universities shut themselves away together for a day. They identified opportunities for collaboration within institutions to increase effectiveness in delivering skills/attributes, interdisciplinarity, creative future thinking, real world complex problem solving and practical action.

We need to learn what we share - and don't, how to work together, what is enterprise even? We promise some light bulb moments and ideas for reaching the parts you've never reached before. 2013 Bristol University Green Gown Award winners challenge us to dare...

Speakers:

Martin Wiles, Head of Sustainability, University of Bristol; Dave Jarman Head of Enterprise Education, University of Bristol; Aisling Tierney, Student, University of Bristol and Chris Willmore, Academic Director, University of Bristol