Climate change in Europe: How to adapt our higher education curricula and involve the students – Leran4Green project
Published 2025-01-27
Keywords
- environment,
- energy crisis,
- higher education,
- online-courses,
- communication skills
How to Cite
Copyright (c) 2024 Karin Van Loon, Sanja Kalambura, Susana Paixão, Inga Ploomipuu, Ivana Rubić, Ana Mirenić
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Abstract
In response to a need to incorporate environmental and sustainability issue in the higher education curricula, four European higher education institutions decided to join their competences to build a five ECTS international, collaborative, and multidisciplinary online-course modules focused on environment, sustainability, and health (energy crisis, analysis methods in the field of environment, green smart factories).
The four partner institutions received an Erasmus+ subvention, for 3 years to develop an online course. The higher education institutions are Brussels-Brabant University College (Belgium), University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, (Croatia), Polytechnico Institut – Coimbra (Portugal) and Tartu Health Care College – Tartu (Estonia).
The goal of the course is to improve the students' interest and develop the scientific, technological, and socio-political foundations in the field of environment, sustainability, health as well as communication, English and crisis management skills. The process involved the teachers and students in a co-construction way and, through a situated learning environment.
The aim of this paper is to present the methodology and the partial results after one year, based on quantitative and qualitative indicators.
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