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- EUSTEPs administrative staff teaching modulePublication . Pires, Sara Moreno; Nicolau, Mariana; Mapar, Mahsa; Malandrakis, George; Pulselli, Federico Maria; Galli, Alessandro; Patrizi, Nicoletta; Caeiro, Sandra; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Papadopoulou, Athanasia; Niccolucci, Valentina; Theodosiou, Nikolaos; Zachos, DimitriosEnhancing Universities’ Sustainability TEaching and Practices – EUSTEPs – is a project financed by ERASMUS+ program that features the collaboration among four European Universities and one Non-Governmental Organization. The team is coordinated by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), and is comprised of members from University of Siena (UNISI), Italy, University of Aveiro (UAv) and Universidade Aberta (UAb), both in Portugal, and Global Footprint Network (GFN), California, USA. The project aims to introduce a broader and holistic approach to sustainability within universities, having developed already one module dedicated to students and another for educators. In addition to this purpose, the project also envisions the development of a Footprint Calculator for Universities’ campus, allowing Institutions to acknowledge the environmental dimension of sustainability and connect it to their everyday functioning. All the actors whitin HEIs (students, academic staff, administrative staff and management bodies) are called to embrace a more sustainable campus, developing a set of multidisciplinary skills and a necessary shift in attitudes. This module is dedicated to the Administrative Staff of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and embraces a hands-on, experiential approach to sustainability understanding and Ecological Footprint concept. By presenting sustainability within the context of everyday life rather than through mere abstract theories and concepts around sustainability and, bridging with the 2030 UN Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, the administrative staff will be able to grasp how sustainability relates to not only the whole spectrum of daily life but also with their workplace and the administration of HEIs. The core aspect of the EUSTEPs Module to HEIs Administrative Staff is: 1. To make the administrative staff aware of sustainability and Ecological Footprint concepts. 2. To empower them to affect the sustainability of their workspace, as well as their community, bringing sustainability knowledge and its associated skills (usually limited to academics, researchers and students). Throughout this module, the administrative staff will not only be able to learn about sustainability and the human-environment relationship but also track their own individual Footprints; through discussing their results and behavior decisions with peers to shape a “learning by group discussion” process.
- “EUSTEPs Educators teaching module: sustainability around us: from theory to practice...and back”Publication . Malandrakis, George; Pulselli, Federico Maria; Galli, Alessandro; Pires, Sara Moreno; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Nicolau, Mariana; Papadopoulou, Athanasia; Mapar, Mahsa; Patrizi, Nicoletta; Niccolucci, Valentina; Theodosiou, Nikolaos; Zachos, DimitriosThis module, developed by the ERASMUS+ project EUSTEPs (Enhancing Universities’ Sustainability TEaching and Practices), uses a “learning-by-doing” approach to equip EU university students with science-based knowledge, multidisciplinary skills, and the transdisciplinary mindset needed to play a critical role in our societal effort towards sustainability, thus allowing students to be best prepared for the future labour market. The module is made highly effective by the adoption of the concept of Ecological Footprint (EF), a well-known and widespread quantitative approach to study, assess and understand sustainability concept. The EF is an ecology-based environmental accounting method, but we propose it not as a technical tool but as a medium to transfer important aspects of sustainability from a wide range of teachers to a wide range of students. This is possible by virtue of the verified ability of the EF method and related accessories to communicate, inform, visualize, and represent sustainability in its variegated forms. The module embraces a hands-on, experiential approach to sustainability teaching: by presenting sustainability within the context of everyday life rather than through a mere abstract teaching of intangible theories and concepts, the goal of the module is to allow students to understand, realize, and learn the full complexity of the economy-society-environment relationships, and help them grasp how sustainability relates to the whole spectrum of daily life. A series of universal, community and environmental education pedagogical approaches (PA) are employed in this module for the development of sustainability competencies. More specifically, seven out of the ten literature suggested education for sustainable development (ESD) pedagogical approaches are commissioned in this EUSTEPs teaching module, including the universal PAs of Case studies, Interdisciplinary team teaching/planning, Lecturing, Concept maps, Project or problem based learning, along with the community PA of Participatory Action Research, and the environmental education PA of Place-based environmental education.
- How to integrate sustainability teaching and learning in higher education Institutions?: from context to action for transformation towards SDGs implementation: a literature reviewPublication . Pires, Sara Moreno; Nicolau, Mariana; Mapar, Mahsa; Dias, Marta Ferreira; Horta, Dina; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Patrizi, Nicoletta; Pulselli, Federico M.; Galli, Alessandro; Malandrakis, Georgios
- Ecological footprint reduction recommendations for higher education IistitutionsPublication . Pires, Sara Moreno; Dias, Marta Ferreira; Onofretti, Giulia; Madeira, Catarina; Nicolau, Mariana; Galli, Alessandro; Mancini, Maria Serena; Patrizi, Nicoletta; Mapar, Mahsa; Malandrakis, George; Lopes, Myriam; Pulselli, Federico Maria; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Gomes, Ana Paula; Nadais, Maria Helena; Gigliotti, Massimo; Papadopoulou, Athanasia; Niccolucci, Valentina; Theodosiou, Nikolaos; Zachos, Dimitrios