Webinar
Una Europa online community event | Innovative education formats for sustainability
Event information
Date & location
From 1:00pm to 3:00pm CET
Online
Contact
Jukka Mähönen
Professor of Law, Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet
jukka.mahonen@helsinki.fiParticipation
Book your space by completing the registration form by 24 January.
Join us at an inspiring and interactive online event dedicated to exploring innovative educational formats for advancing sustainability education across Una Europa universities, brought to your by the alliance's Self-Steering Committee in Sustainability.
In this session, you will learn about educational formats regarding sustainability and how to implement them further and scale up in your own teaching.
Let’s come together to innovate and implement new ways of fostering sustainability studies in education!
Sustainable development and climate protection belong to the biggest global challenges of the 21st century and will remain focal points of academic research and university life in the decades to come. Una Europa partner universities share an aspiration for the sustainable University of the Future, an institution that rises to meet global environmental and societal challenges. Universities, where the decisionmakers of the future are educated and relevant knowledge is produced, have a crucial role to play.
Una Europa’s Self-Steering Committee in Sustainability brings new insights into education to researchers and educators through innovative educational formats for sustainability. In this online community event, we aim to foster collaboration and scale up international perspectives and interdisciplinary online learning opportunities within our Una Europa community.
Is this event for me?
Whether you’re an educator, researcher, or university stakeholder, this event offers valuable insights into opportunities for you to elevate sustainability in education through novel approaches and collaborative online teaching formats.
Participation is free and open to all members of the Una Europa community and beyond.
What will be covered in the session?
- Keynote speaker Marco Rieckmann, Universität Vechta Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Higher Education: Exploring MOOCs, Microcredentials, and Collaborative Online International Learning as Innovative Settings for ESD.
- Laura Riuttanen, Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors Universitet Micro-credentials and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): Offering flexible and accessible approaches to sustainability education.
- Johanna Sári, Freie Universität Berlin Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): An innovative method for connecting classrooms across borders to facilitate impactful teaching collaborations.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in the topics explored through breakout sessions, allowing you to deepen your understanding of these formats and how they can elevate sustainability education.
Meet our speakers
Marco Rieckmann is Associate Professor for Higher Education Development at the Universität Vechta and holds a doctoral degree in Educational Research. His major research and teaching interests are higher education, competence development and assessment, higher education for sustainable development, and global education.
Laura Riuttanen is a University Lecturer in Atmospheric Sciences at the Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors Universitet. She is a member of the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee in Sustainability and Academic Lead of the Una Europa Micro-Credential in Sustainability programme. She is also involved in the Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability (UnaVEx) project.
Johanna Sári is the project coordinator for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) at Freie Universität Berlin. Freie Universität Berlin is also part of the Berlin wide BeCOIL network, which consists of nine Berlin-based higher education institutions. The network’s goal is to create common guidelines and COIL resources like a self study course for teachers.
This event is organised by the Una Europa Self-Steering Committee in Sustainability as part of their activity initiated under the Una.Futura project.