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DayZero SDG Workshop

Rethinking student involvement in higher education

How can we design and organise higher education that is truly interdisciplinary, makes students active learners and takes on the defining sustainability challenges of our time? In this workshop, we will discuss how sustainable development can be a driver of innovation in higher education

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How can we design and organise higher education that is truly interdisciplinary, makes students active learners and takes on the defining sustainability challenges of our time? At the UiB Collaboratory, we are rethinking and reworking higher education to engage with sustainable development and enable interdisciplinary collaboration. 

In this workshop, we will discuss how sustainable development can be a driver of innovation in higher education. We will discuss practical examples of how we have designed and organised student-centered learning activities at the UiB Collaboratory, and use a highly interactive "backcasting" approach to identify opportunities and strategies for reworking higher education in terms of content, teaching methods and organisation

Facilitators and presenters

  • Synnøve Beitnes, coordinator of Bergen International Student Conference and student at Institutt for geografi ved Universitetet i Bergen
  • Johan Elfving, coordinator of UiB's new student-led, interdisciplinary course in Sustainable Innovation and student at the Dept. of Comparative Politics at UiB
  • Jakob Grandin, convener of the UiB Collaboratory and PhD Fellow at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation and  Institutt for geografi ved Universitetet i Bergen

This event is a part of Day Zero of the 2019 SDG Bergen Conference. Read more about Day Zero here: https://www.facebook.com/events/291497411511834/