Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D.
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Sustainable Competences in Higher Education
Final International Conference
Faculty of Education - Masaryk University
Brno - Czechia
May 14 - 15
Please, register by 21 April 2024.
Online participation is possible, though we would love to meet you face to face.
The global issues of today
Environmental disasters, pandemics, poverty, immigration, war and the growing interconnectedness of people create the need for an interdisciplinary and internationalised curriculum. Based on UNESCO 2030 Framework for Action and the 21st Century Learning Skills, the new Sustainable Curriculum empowers students to relate well to people from diverse backgrounds and actively engage in differing perspectives towards making positive contribution to solving local and global problems.
Key objectives of the conference
The goal of the conference is to share experiences and good practices in designing and implementing Sustainable Curriculum. Teachers, researchers, and students from four higher education partner institutions - UCL University College in Denmark, University of Agder in Norway, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, and Masaryk University in the Czech Republic - joined in the mutual interest and concerns:
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to design a curriculum that would promote sustainable development, healthy lifestyle, responsible consumer behaviour, and social equity
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to empower students of bachelor’s degrees to seek information and extend their knowledge about issues pertaining to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)
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to empower students, through project-based learning, to engage and assume active roles, both locally and globally, to provide suggestions forsolutions of global challenges and to contribute to sustainable world
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to involve students in collaborative online international learning (COIL) so that they can actively learn from peers and teachers across countries, engage with different perspectives, and appreciate cultural diversity
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to help students develop ‘21st century skills’, that is critical thinking, greater awareness of the existence of other perspectives, digital literacies, the ability to communicate effectively (online) with people from other cultures, the ability to collaborate in international teams
Topics of the conference will include
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- Sustainable competences in curriculum development
- Sustainable diets
- Resources, inequality, and sustainability
- Sustainable consumer behaviour
- Sustainable health
- Global learning and intercultural collaboration for sustainable development
International conference is part of the Erasmus+ KA2 2021-1-DK01-KA220-HED-000027630 ‘Sustainable Competences in Higher Education’
