Workshop: Sustainability in Higher Education: Integrating sustainability into university teaching and learning locally and globally

The workshop “Sustainability in Higher Education: Integrating sustainability into university teaching and learning locally and globally”, organized between the teachers for Sustainability network at the University of Helsinki, and UNESCO IESALC , will be held on May 27, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (Finland time, UTC+3), by Zoom. This workshop will explore the key challenges for sustainability in higher education, both locally and globally, and co-create and evaluate possible tools and solutions.

The first workshop aims to bring together teaching personnel, management, and support staff from various higher education institutions in the Global North and Global South. The goal of the workshop is to explore the challenges, existing practices, and opportunities in pedagogical transformation towards sustainability from local to global levels.

Through concrete examples and discussions, the workshop will touch upon relevant drivers, barriers, risks, actors, and stakeholders related to sustainability in pedagogical design in higher education. It will provide a platform for co-creating and evaluating possible tools and solutions to embed sustainability into university teaching and learning.

Taking away from the workshop, not only expertise and actions from various regions in the globe will be presented, but also ways forward will be shared to move into potential next steps for higher education stakeholders to support pedagogical transformation.

Yuma Inzolia, Head of Capacity Development at UNESCO IESALC, will give the welcoming remarks along with Rami Ratvio, University Professor at the University of Helsinki, from 2:00 to 2:15 p.m.

More information here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/uhsustained/2024/05/18/unescoiesalc-uh-workshop1/

Registration link: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/130025/lomake.html