Sustainable development in higher education

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Nídia de Sá Caetano (Author) FEUP; Manuel Felgueiras (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Pages: 469-472

7th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2019

16 October 2019 through 18 October 2019

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Authenticus ID: P-00R-HFA

DOI: 10.1145/3362789.3362950

Abstract (EN): Linking the economic, social and environmental aspects of any plan, project or activity is fundamental to act according to the sustainable development goals. These three dimensions are interrelated and interconnected in such a way that it is sometimes very hard to discriminate what their individual effects are, or on the contrary, how their joint effects are synergistic. And if this is generically a difficult task, when it comes to education the difficulty becomes even more significant, as one must be very careful defining concepts in an absolutely clear and undoubtful way. While the specialization is required to educate professionals able to accurately project and build these projects, it is now mandatory that everyone is also able to understand the causes and effects of their actions, towards sustainable development. In this Track, different teaching & learning approaches have been presented and discussed, aiming to use Higher Education as a highway to educate the professionals of the near future as strategic partners for the development of different mindsets, able to tackle the real problems. © 2019 ACM.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4