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Regional perspectives on Higher Education and
Sustainable Development
EUROPE
Prof. Dr. Clemens Mader, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
IAU 2014 International Conference, Iquitos, Peru21.03.2014
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The COPERNICUS Alliance – European Higher Education Network for Sustainable Development
European network of > 60 member and project affiliated institutions
Annual conferences
Newsletter
EU Projects
Policy
Capacity Building
Research on HESD
Supporting Transformation of HE sector towards SD
www.copernicus-alliance.org
• Partners of UE4SD
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Transformation tw. SD in higher education means:
• inclusive universities
• enabling leadership
• to take agency for sustainable development
• among students, faculty and society
• through education and research activities. Fig.: Mader C. 2013
Transformative sust. transitions
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Enabling leadership for sustainable development through creating capabilities
Capabilities for transformation
Create freedom to (inter-)act and co-create
Open up predefined structures and modesof education
curricula
research calls and programs
break boarders between university and society
Development of competences (Wieck et.al., 2011)
System thinking competence
Strategic competence
Interpersonal competence
Anticipatory competence
Normative competence
Creating capabilities for transformation
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University Educators for Sustainable Development (UE4SD)
ERASMUS Multilateral Network Project
55 partners from 30 European countriesFour regions: North (11), East (16), South (20) and central (8)
Lead Partner: Prof. Daniella Tilbury, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Aims: Establish a network supporting sustainability competences among university educators
Create a mapping of existing resources and educational ESD activities for university educators
„Leading practice publication“
Annual meetings with seminars for university educators
Development of an "Academy for ESD in HE“
Start October 2013 – End: September 2016 Website: http://www.ue4sd.eu
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The Rio+20 Treaty on Higher Education
Treaty Circle: 31 HE networks and institutions from around the globe
~100 signatories
Development in the advance of the Rio+20 conference in cooperation with 25 organizations from around the world.
Concentration on:Whole-of-institution approach
Transformation
Immediate – short and long-term goals
Website: http://hetreatyrio20.com
Principles#1: To be transformative, higher education must transform itself#2: Efforts across the higher education system must be aligned#3: Partnership underpins progress#4: Sustainable development is an institutional and sector-wide learning process#5: Facilitating access to the underprivileged#6: Inter- and trans- disciplinary learning and action#7: Redefining the notion of quality higher education#8: Sustainable development as a whole-of-institution commitment
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Role of students and student initiatives
Students as citizen and nodes between their home regions and university
Students initiate ambitious projects as likeSolar plants (z.B. Lüneburg, Clausthal, Leipzig,…)
Sustainability reports (z.B. oikos Hamburg)
Video & Radio channels (Greening U. of Sienna)
Online portals for early scientific work (Vienna)
Sustainability Challenge – study course (INEX)
conferences: World Students Environmental Network
ResourcesLow budgets but strong enthusiasm and agency
oikos International – Students for Sustainable Economics and Management
>40 chapters globally; >70 bis 2016
www.oikosinternational.org
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Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development
UN Decade on ESD (2005-2014)
United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies
Multi-stakeholder networks on regional level, engaged in sustainability issues
120 RCEs (Jan. `14) ( ~30 in Europe)
Think global – act local
Local initiatives and global common thematic groups
Working groups on e.g.:Health
Traditional knowledge
Sustainable consumption and production
Higher education
International & Local Community Exchange
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Sustainability Award for sustainable universities
Alliance for sustainable universities9 (out of 22) Austrian Universities
Working groups on Sustainability in research and education, Management, Knowledge Transfer, strategic development
www.Sustainicum.at Platform with > 100 sustainability teaching materials for higher education
Available in English and German language
www.Sustainability4U.at Platform of four universities located at city of Graz
Common sustainability vision in their performance agreements
Sustainable mobility
Sustainability reporting
Cases: Austria – a selection of initiatives
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Monday academyLectures every 2 weeks
Open for community
Live broadcasted to 8 regional communities
Megaphon UniversityEducation without boarders
Inviting people who would usually have no access to university education because of their social background (migration, handicapped, social status,…)
Transdisciplinary Bacc. & MSc. Programme on Environmental System Sciences
Interdisciplinary courses with students from geography, chemistry, physics, business management and economics
Transdisciplinary courses organised by students who built cooperations with NGOs, business or public management
RCE Graz-StyriaResearch project on youth involvement in rural development
Youth perspective, mind mapping, involvement of schools, policy, business
Cases: University of Graz - regional community interactions
Contact Prof. Friedrich Zimmermann, Sustainability Director, [email protected]
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Educational reformLeuphana University of Lüneburgexample Bachelor Programms
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Major Minor
Leuphana Semester
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Exemplary in-depth knowledge and general overview in the sense of an ordering matrix; Autonomous, comprehensive academic work in the chosen field of specialization
Work ethics and methodology for both
team-oriented and autonomous settings
Familiarity with an interdisciplinary
perspective and multiple disciplines; Foreign
language acquisition; Participiation in a practical
(social) project
Additional subject field in a Major-relatedarea of study
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Study on transformative higher education for sustainable development
Online survey with reflection workshop.
Research questions:
How do universities contribute to transformation for sustainable development?
What success factors are necessary to scale sustainability transformation?
How can we reach the unreached?
What role do assessment and quality management have?
Funded by Austrian Ministry of Science and Research
Outcomes to be presented at Nagoya Higher Education for Sustainable Development Conference in November 2014
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Key sustainability trends in European Higher Education Institutions
The disciplinarity of sustainability researchEnergy, Water, Consumption and Production, Management, Finance, Education for Sustainable Development (variety of Journals, EU projects, networks,…)
Sustainability transitions (International Sustainability Transitions Research Network)
Research on inter- and transdisiciplinary methodologies (ITdNet, Td.Net,,…)
Sustainability research needs to stay inter- and transdisciplinary
Curricula reforms Transdisciplinary seminars (obliged project seminars,…)
Internationalization of study programmes (Global Virtual Campuses, MOOCs,…)
Joint or Double Degree Programmes (JD Sustainable Development, )
Campus ManagementSustainability strategy, office for sustainability, reporting,…
Campuses become more inclusive for community
Whole Institution ApproachTransformation of Higher Education
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Quality management, measurement & assessment for sustainable development
Models of universities that encourage transdisciplinarity
People in universities should become work ready + professionals
Existing leadership needs agency – leaders need to be enabled to take agency (capability) transformative leadership
What does the future hold for universities engaged in the interface with the regional community?
• from pilot policy/institutionalization• from margin culture
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Contact:Prof. Dr. Clemens Mader
Visiting Professor for Environment andSustainability in the Region
Vice-President COPERNICUS Alliance
UNESCO Chair – Higher Education for Sustainable DevelopmentLeuphana University LüneburgScharnhorststraße 1D-21335 Lüneburg
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