Climate University is a project of 11 universities to develop and foster higher education on climate change and sustainability in Finland in 2019-2020, in collaboration with working life and schools.
As part of the project, we collect concrete sustainability challenges from working life, to which multidisciplinary groups of university students could propose solutions to. Challenges should connect either to
1) climate change: solutions, emissions, adaptation, attitudes…
or
2) sustainable development: ecological, social, economic, or cultural…
For example, in Autumn 2018 the “Leadership for sustainable change” course (www.leadforsust.fi), our students designed concrete project plans for change leadership towards circular economy.
The challenge should consist of:
- title of the challenge
- collaboration partner and contact person
- description of the challenge
- possible special requests regarding the solution / collaboration / schedule etc.
Challenges can be in English or in Finnish. We are happy to help you in the formulation of the challenge. First round of challenges is collected by 5 April 2019.
One or more of the challenges will be chosen to the Climate University Turku workshop 7.-8.5.2019, where we present innovation pedagogy to the university teachers. If your challenge is chosen to the workshop, we wish you could participate the workshop to present your challenge and hear the solutions. Idea is to further develop this collaborative concept and incorporate all the challenges to suitable university courses.
To join Climate University Challenges, send your proposal to Laura Riuttanen (firstname.surname a helsinki.fi).