Clemens Mader

Regional perspectives on Higher Education and

Sustainable Development

EUROPE

Prof. Dr. Clemens Mader, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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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

http://www.copernicus-alliance.org/

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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

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 transdisciplinary learning and action#7: Redefining the notion of quality higher education#8: Sustainable development as a whole-of-institution commitment


http://hetreatyrio20.com/

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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


http://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


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

http://sustainability4u.uni-graz.at/cms/index.php


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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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


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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