Roundtable: “Partnerships for sustainable development: searching for theoretical and methodological perspectives”

Sustainability challenges in international development are complex, multilevel and transboundary in nature. Tackling them effectively requires the involvement and cooperation of a series of stakeholders – including government bodies, international organisations, private companies, civil society organisations, academia and local communities. The scope of this challenge is condensed in Sustainable Development Goal 17, “Partnerships for the…

Think Tank at the European Space Agency organised by Sustainable BCC Community!

The ESA-ESAC – SUSTAINABLE BCC Think Tank is an educational activity organised to promote innovation and generate fresh ideas to launch a comprehensive sustainable refurbishment of the European Space Agency (ESA) building “A” in Spain. Together with ESA-ESAC, SUSBCC has organised a high-impact activity consisting of a large think tank, with the collaboration of students…

ITU Environmental Week- Good Practices for Sustainability: Student Experiences

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June since 1974, World Environment Day. During the following week, Istanbul Technical University will be organising a series of events to promote sustainable practices in research and education as well as to increase awareness regarding environmental issues. On this occasion, an international…

Teaching sustainable development: from a disciplinary to a learning outcome approach

Engineers are expected to better integrate sustainable development practices and issues in the way they design, build, operate, maintain and unbuilt products and services. Though sustainable development  was defined almost 40 years ago and had a renewed impetus in 2015 with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the way…

Lunch Talks #2 – Exploring Campus Sustainability

Do not miss this series of seminars that present actions that will contribute to the transformation of cities from the perspective of sustainability with different transversal axes. The aim is to make students aware of the problems we are currently facing in the field of urban sustainability, decarbonization, and ecological transition. These seminars give continuity…

Ways of sustainability: a discussion table in Madrid.

Do you ever wonder how many ways of sustainability are? In the context of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week,  the EELISA community “ EELISA Discovery” offers students and academics already in Madrid the opportunity to join an interesting discussion table about sustainability that aims to share the experience of the TULE UPM Community in…