WORKSHOPS

Topic 1 - Citizenship and community engagement

Permaculture as Pedagogy – Join us for a virtual garden visit! Explore how a "living classroom" at Copenhagen Business School is cultivating regenerative education through care, courage, and collaboration. A participatory journey into permaculture, play, and bold learning in uncertain times.

Topic 1 - Citizenship and community engagement

The aim of the UniNEtZ beWEGt project is to discuss and develop concrete proposals for the transformation of universities, to take steps towards their implementation and to strengthen cross-university cooperation. In this workshop, we will reflect on and discuss university transformation processes based on a short film on UniNEtZ beWEGt. Further information on UniNEtZ beWEGt can be found here and here.

Topic 1 - Citizenship and community engagement

In this session, we explore how academic communities can stay resilient in bringing sustainability and innovative pedagogies into business education. We believe that meaningful progress is rooted in shared learning and mutual support. That’s why the SiA initiative is designed to offer a digital hub with open, high-quality teaching resources for sustainable development, alongside peer mentoring. These are our core tools to strengthen and expand the work already underway. This session offers a glimpse of the initiative in action and an invitation to join a growing community of practice!

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

Discover how personal development can become the foundation for building essential future skills in higher education. Our interactive workshop combines imagination exercises and creative tools to empower students with emotional intelligence, resilience, and innovative thinking. Join us to explore practical strategies for integrating personal growth into your teaching – and reimagine education as a space for courage, connection, and transformation.

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

All it takes is 15 minutes to unlock your capacity to achieve inner development goals (IDG)! Taking the free VIA Character Strengths Survey will reveal your unique ranked profile of 24 character strengths which have a strong relevance to the 23 IDG skills. Join this interactive webinar to explore your character strengths and discover how they connect to the cognitive, emotional, and relational capacities vital for tackling today's challenges. Learn about each strength, its link to IDG skills, and engage in activities with paper and pen to reflect on your personal strengths and how to cultivate them. Through reflection, creative exercises, and group discussions, you'll gain practical insights to apply your inner capacities for personal growth and act effectively on complex challenges, stepping into regenerative leadership.

How to prepare for the webinar:
- Take the free VIA Character Strengths Survey which will take 10-15 minutes to complete.
- Bring a copy of your results to the webinar.
- Have a few sheets of paper and a pen ready to use during the workshop.

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

In this workshop, participants will be guided through an immersive meditation journey to reconnect with themselves, others, as well as nature and our Earth as a whole. By fostering a sense of interconnectedness, reconnection work helps to address the root causes of unsustainable behavior, such as disconnection and alienation, and inspires heart-centered, regenerative action. Through further exploration with other participants and a short insight into why reconnection work is essential for sustainability, we will conclude this session with practical and concise ideas for actions to transform one’s own university. Connect to your body, heart, and mind, and (re)discover what it means to be in community and relation to other beings and the bigger whole.

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

Dive into the heart of complexity with our 60-minute workshop on the underappreciated potential of intuition in systems thinking. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and unpredictable, mastering systemic awareness means moving beyond just mapping feedback loops. It also requires tuning into our "inner signals" to navigate ambiguity and reveal hidden dynamics. Through concise theory, a reflective drawing exercise (bring paper and colors!), and narrative exchanges, you will learn to harness your intuitive insights alongside analytical tools. Join us to transform how you see and shape the systems around you by giving intuition the rigor it deserves. "We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!" – Donella Meadows (n.d)

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

What if failure isn’t a dead end but a doorway to transformation? What if our biggest mistakes hold the seeds of insight, innovation, and growth? This interactive session explores failure as a generative force in sustainability transformations – one that reveals blind spots, challenges dominant narratives, and expands our capacity for adaptive learning and leadership.
Using Fuck-Up Roulette, a structured yet playful reframing exercise, participants will share personal failure stories and reinterpret them through diverse lenses – including the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), care ethics, futures literacy, and humor. In doing so, they will collaboratively uncover unseen assumptions and generate new possibilities for action.
Through emotionally resonant storytelling and perspective-shifting dialogue, this session creates aesthetic experiences – moving participants emotionally and somatically – to catalyze deeper learning. It acknowledges that the emotional toll of navigating planetary boundaries, systemic injustice, and institutional inertia often surfaces as eco-anxiety, paralysis, or disconnection. The session provides a supportive container for exploring discomfort and uncertainty, inviting participants to regulate and transform these emotions into insight, agency, and regenerative action.

Topic 2 - Emotions well-being and inner development

How do we confront the feelings of helplessness, guilt, or despair that arise in the face of the climate crisis? And how can we hold space for one another in these emotionally charged conversations?
Join us for a participatory and emotionally grounded climate café using the Balint group method, a psychological framework that allows participants to explore and process difficult emotions through structured group reflection. In a safe, intimate setting, we collectively unpack the emotional undercurrents of climate-related experiences, building a deeper awareness of the relational, systemic, and psychological dynamics at play. This session is not therapy, but it is transformative.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

How do you teach sustainability to more than 200 students at once and still make it personal, playful, and transformative? Join our campfire session to hear the story of a bold experience at Kaunas University of Technology, where 20 lecturers from 9 departments co-created an experiential course that challenges students to think critically, act creatively, and co-design sustainable futures.
Through storytelling, role-play games, and hands-on workshops, we reimagine how sustainability competencies can be taught and lived. Come share your own stories, reflect with fellow educators, and help shape a learning culture rooted in care, curiosity, and courage.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

How can playful creativity and courageous risk-taking transform teacher education for sustainability? This article explores an innovative, transnational seminar that brought together teacher education students from Uruguay and Germany in a bold learning experiment. Through bilingual, digital explorer workshops, intercultural collaboration, and authentic, hands-on assessment, students transcended language barriers and cultural boundaries – discovering the power of curiosity, creativity, and emotional engagement for fostering sustainability competencies.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

How can we empower students to become sustainability changemakers – while also transforming how we teach and assess sustainability? Join us for an interactive, mini lesson design workshop where university students and educators co-create learning materials for secondary schools and design tools to evaluate sustainability competencies. Discover how this bold, transdisciplinary initiative bridges education levels, disciplines, and communities to shape a just and regenerative future.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

Discover how AI can transform sustainability education: In this hands-on session, you’ll explore the playful L2BGreen teaching platform and test a business case alongside our AI agent GAIA. Together, we’ll use a redesigned sustainability-adapted Business Model Canvas to examine how business activities can drive or hinder sustainability. Join us to rethink how we teach green entrepreneurship with bold ideas, practical tools, and transformative learning.

The presentation is embedded in the ERASMUS+ research project L2B Geeen.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

Transform your ESD practice from instructor-led to student-powered at "Co-Creating Sustainable Futures". workshop. In a focused one-hour sprint, Dr Janbee Mopidevi’s Relational Co-Creation Framework will help you:
- Importance of engaging students as co-creators- conceptual basis
- Map your institution’s enablers & barriers
- Co-design a student-led sustainability pilot
- Embed structured reflection cycles
- Set UNESCO ESD 2030-aligned SMART indicators

You’ll leave with ready-to-use templates (Context-Mapping Matrix, Mini-Intervention Design, Reflective Planner, Indicator Sheet) and a three-month action roadmap to empower student changemakers.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

How can assessment be transformative? Why does it matter in these scary times? How might students experience bold approaches to assessment and how can instructors facilitate them in engaging ways? This session will explore these questions and support students and instructors alike to practice assessment in ways that enhance transformative learning for a just, safe, and regenerative future for society.

Topic 3 - Playful and bold learning and assessment

What if you could redesign a learning space or museum rooted in both cultural and environmental sustainability? This playful and bold online workshop invites participants to explore how values, identity, and imagination can shape inclusive and regenerative educational environments. Through a creative and reflective activity inspired by the Hellenic Children’s Museum, we will reimagine museums as transformative spaces for learning, belonging, and sustainability. Join us to co-create new visions for culturally rooted, learner-centered educational futures.

Topic 4 - Digital technology and misinformation

What would you teach today to prevent tomorrow’s collapse? In this daring, hands-on design sprint, you’ll use UNESCO’s draft AI Competency Framework for Higher Education to design a course that equips learners to face and transform AI-driven crises. Come imagine, build, and collaborate across time to shape a just and regenerative future.