Learning from the sharp end � implications for sustainability in Higher Education

Date 6 September 2015 00:00 - 8 September 2015 00:00
Venue University of Bristol
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Last Booking Date for this Event 31st August 2015


The sharp end experience of successfully enabling students to make a difference.

The Symposium is jointly organised by University of Bristol and the University of the West of England and the UN SIDS Partnership, Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty.  It is part of a wide programme of activities for Bristol’s year as the European Green Capital for 2015.

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The Symposium focuses on new ideas to empower students to deliver a more sustainable future. It will showcase the best international experience of engaging students with an emphasis upon holistic approaches linking student- led activities, the informal curriculum, the formal curriculum and the campus and city as living laboratories. The Symposium will challenge participants to consider the merits of holistic approaches, and explore not only what we are doing but what we are trying to achieve – the outcomes as well as inputs.

Which initiatives are making a difference? Why? What can we learn from them? What are the new projects and partnerships that can take forward the agenda of engaged learning for sustainability?

The two days will host keynotes, academic papers, workshops and roundtables, with keynote speakers including Sara Parking (Forum for the Future)
Speaker slots are full, but there is still space for posters, if you let us know when you book.

BRISTOL is European Green Capital 2015: This Symposium as a chance to  be part of it. Come and see the work being done to transition the city and universities to a more sustainable future.

Find out more at  https://sites.google.com/site/beyondesd/

Registration queries to [email protected]

Programme queries (papers, posters, roundtables and workshops) to  [email protected]

5-6 Sept. Pre-Conference - come early and join in Green Capital events.
7-8 Sept. Conference Sessions and Conference Dinner.

Venue: University of Bristol Richmond Building in the historic heart of Bristol

Delivered by EAUC