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Sustainability Education Collective - Bærekraftskollegiet: Institutional synergies for sustainability learning

POSTPONED TO JANUARY DUE TO THE NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS!!

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POSTPONED TO JANUARY DUE TO THE NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS!! 

The meeting time will be updated shortly.


How do we prepare students to tackle the wicked problems of social, environmental and economic sustainability? 

The Sustainability Education Collective - Bærekraftskollegiet - is a forum for everyone working on sustainability-related education. We wish to exchange experiences, knowledge and ideas for improved teaching and learning in sustainability education, and aim to be a transformative learning initiative with a multiplier effect, as courses and programs are developed and revised to foster sustainability learning for students. The group was established in Summer 2020 and has members from all UiB faculties, and is now preparing to apply for a Centre of Excellence in Teaching (SFU). 
 

Therefore, we want to welcome all teachers and students to our first open meeting, with three main goals:

1) Give some examples on sustainability education at UiB (see list below)

2) encourage new people to join the group

3) encourage cooperation in teaching and learning that spans across departments and faculties.

Members of the Sustainability Education Collective will describe the following initiatives at different institutional levels that have sought to overcome obstacles to sustainability education at UiB: 

  • Katja Enberg (MN) and Yael Harlap (PS) will introduce the bottom-up, and now middle-out, Sustainability Education Collective and share the results of an evaluation of its work in its first year.
  • Birgit Kopainsky (SV) will present the findings from a SoTL project exploring innovation competencies in a sustainability-based interfaculty PhD course.
  • Atle Rotevatn (MN) will bridge undergraduate and continuing education by discussing outcomes of a new energy transition course designed in two versions: for university students and industry professionals.
  • Jakob Grandin (SV) leads the Collaboratory, a student-driven initiative to create student-faculty partnerships in interdisciplinary courses and annual student conferences. The Collaboratory won the Ugleprisen in 2021!

 

Programme:

11:15     Welcome and initial reflection

11:20     Katja Enberg and Yael Harlap will introduce the bottom-up, and now middle-out, Sustainability Education Collective and share the results of an evaluation of its work in its first year.

11:30     Birgit Kopainsky will present the findings from a SoTL project exploring innovation competencies in a sustainability-based interfaculty PhD course.

11:40     Atle Rotevatn will bridge undergraduate and continuing education by discussing outcomes of a new energy transition course designed in two versions: for university students and industry professionals.

11:50     Jakob Grandin leads the Collaboratory, a student-driven initiative to create student-faculty partnerships in interdisciplinary courses and annual student conferences. The Collaboratory received the Ugle-prisen in 2021!

12:00     Waffles, coffee and tea accompanied by semi-organized mingling

12:30     Plenary discussion including reflections from the participants and ways forward

12:45 Meeting ends

 

In order to be able to have the right amount of waffles, we kindly ask you to register here: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=11760199