
DAY 1
Wednesday, 19 November

09.00 - 09.15 CET ⭢ OPENING
with Tom Kuppens (COPERNICUS Alliance) and Michael Yang (oikos International)

09.15 - 10.00 CET ⭢ PLENARY SESSION / KEYNOTES:
"Playful and bold learning and assessment"
with Jean-Christophe Carteron (Sulitest) and Michiel van Harskamp (Utrecht University); facilitated by Tom Kuppens (COPERNICUS Alliance)

10.00 - 11.00 CET ⭢ INTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Isabel Froes, Maribel Blasco: "Permaculture as Pedagogy: Growing Regenerative Futures at CBS through Permahaven"
- Cherilyn Hehl, Bettina Merlin: "Fostering Future Skills: Personality Meets Education"
- Etrit Shkreli, Sanna Ketonen-Oksi: "F.ck-up roulette: The art of failing wisely"
- Joana Ramanauskaitė et al.: "Transformative Education for Sustainability: Challenges, Breakthroughs, and RealWorld Impact"
- Siglinde Spuller: "Playful and Bold Learning and Assessment in Transnational Teacher Education: Experiences from Uruguay and Germany"
- Janbee Mopidevi: "Co-Creating Sustainable Futures: A Hands-On HE Workshop on Empowering Students as CoDesigners in ESD Using the Relational Co-Creation Framework"

11.00 - 14.00 CET
BREAK

14.00 - 15.00 CET ⭢ PANEL DISCUSSION:
"Citizenship and community engagement"
with Joshua Amponsem (Youth Climate Justice Fund), Oshin Ghiotto (Green Office Ghent)
and Isabel Menezes (University of Porto); facilitated by Eglė Staniškienė (COPERNICUS Alliance)

15.00 - 16.00 CET ⭢ INTERACTIVE PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Eva-Maria Holzinger, Franziska Allerberger: "UniNEtZ beWEGt"
- Martina Michielan, Daria Sosnowska: "Climate Balintgroup: Holding Space for Emotions in the Climate Crisis"
- Tom Kuppens et al.: "DEUSS: A bold learning journey to foster teacher competence in education for sustainability across educational borders"
- Pascale Maas, Ingrid Molderez: "Feeling into Systems: Reclaiming Intuition in Systems Thinking Education"
- Jordan King, Elisabeth Hofmann, Alex Ramey, Anne Zimmermann: "Experiencing Transformative Assessment: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters"

ORGANIZERS & CONTACT
The 2025 HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT is organized by the COPERNICUS Alliance, oikos International, Students Organizing for Sustainability International and Students4Sustainability.
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