ESD - Education for sustainable development 

Education for sustainable development is not only about teaching sustainability topics, such as climate change mitigation or biodiversity, but also enables students to think critically and reflectively. Participatory techniques are used to enable collaborative and transformative learning interactively. The concept promotes independent and self-determined knowledge acquisition that is closely oriented to the realities of student life. Students can acquire future-oriented competences and are enabled to understand and evaluate sustainability challenges as well as to identify and explore opportunities for change and action. Diversity of perspectives, different dimensions of sustainability, and potential objective-conflicts are central elements of ESD. As a university, we have a key role to play in imparting these skills - and we also want to incorporate the suggestions and ideas from the classroom and student perspectives into our everyday university life and operations. 

I-BNE: 2nd conference at the Ohm on interdisciplinary education for sustainable development

The second conference on Interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Development (I-BNE) took place from 13-14 June 2024. Participants shared know-how from practice, discussed current research paradigms, and exchanged information about innovative educational formats. The programme comprised presentations, “innovation sparks”, and poster presentations. In his keynote Prof. Daniel Fischer, Leuphana University Lüneburg, addressed the challenges given ever-changing forms of populism and the opportunities and potential of education for sustainable development. In the long run, EDS is more than an educational approach, it is a reflective orientation towards one’s own behaviour.