SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY (3 ECTS Credits)

From January 28 to February 27, 2025  
Campus B.Ibañez / online  

Self-registration:  http://links.uv.es/w2e0IP8
3 ECTS Credits  

 Objectives:
- To understand and develop respect for and promotion of Human Rights, Fundamental Rights, the culture of peace and democratic awareness, the basic mechanisms for citizen participation, and an attitude of environmental sustainability and responsible consumption.
- To develop skills for cooperative work and team participation, negotiation abilities, and to incorporate values of cooperation, effort, respect, and commitment to the pursuit of quality as a hallmark of identity.
- To analyze, think critically, engage in creative thinking, and evaluate one’s own learning process by discussing personal and external ideas assertively and structurally.

Program:
1. Sustainability from a scientific perspective: From science to awareness; Current state of sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda. Case studies.

2. Glocal Problems: Climate change and the ongoing emergence of problems. Systemic analysis of current inequalities. Synergistic effects of global change. The population-consumption-growth triad. Barriers to sustainable development. Dysfunctions of the economic-financial system.

3. The role of (transdisciplinary) education for a sustainable world: Environmental education and education for sustainability. The European framework of competencies for sustainability (GreenComp). The university as a driver and model of sustainability.

4. Actions for a sustainable university.