In the framework of the 9th Annual IGCAT Experts Meeting on Engaging Young Minds, the project NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning organises a free webinar session focusing on:
INTEGRATING SUSTAINIBILITY COMPETENCES IN EDUCATION
How will food discipline graduates address challenges such as climate change and food waste and meeting environmental sustainability targets?
20 October 2022 14:00h-16:00h CET
Description:
In a global context marked by the Agenda 2030, sustainability is going to be one of the values governing society and a key competency for graduate students in the upcoming decades. Food discipline graduates will need to address challenges such as climate change, food waste and food losses, as well as providing support to food producers seeking to meet global economic, social, and environmental sustainability targets. The NEMOS project focuses on service-learning as means to increase sustainability competences in students alongside the community to which the university belongs. In the webinar session, students from the universities of the NEMOS consortium will explain how service-learning experiences helped them reflect marketable sustainability-related skills. A discussion will take place on how these skills can be better integrated into students’ curricula and the importance of engaging stakeholders in this process through community-building.
The webinar session will be preceded by a presentation on University and sustainability: how to define a students’ sustainability profile based on the NEMOS project provided by the Project Coordinator, Dr. María J. Cantalejo (Associated Professor at the Public University of Navarra).
Target audience:
The webinar session will be of interest to all actors involved in higher education and service-learning, such as universities and schools, teachers and lecturers, students, stakeholders in the agri-food and related sectors, as well as anyone interested in promoting the integration of key sustainability competences in education curricula.
The webinar session will be held in English.
Registrations will remain open until 18 October 2022 on IGCAT’s website: Engaging Young Minds
In order to participate in the NEMOS session, when completing the registration form please select Break-out session 3: NEMOS – INTEGRATING SUSTAINIBILITY COMPETENCES IN EDUCATION as your preferred choice.
Places are limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
About the NEMOS project
The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.
More information at www.nemosproject.com
