09.00 - 10.30 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS F
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Rosie Westerveld:
- Sara Sawatsky, Blane Harvey, Matthias Kramer, Daniel Fischer, Stephanie Leite, Claire Grauer: "Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Whole of Institution Approaches Towards Sustainability"
- Isabel Toman: "Advancing Transformative ESD through a Whole-Institution Approach: Evidence from Action Research and Insights from Guidance Tool Design"
- Ming Li: "Six Years in a Nutshell: Enhancing Transformative Sustainability Education through University-wide General Education"
- Marina Gavrilaki [via Zoom]: "Training for the Pressure to Perform: How Higher Education Can Equip Future Sustainability Practitioners for the VUCA Reality" - Collective Intelligence Boost [CLE 33] [EN]:
Alexandra Wolf: "Whose sustainability? Whose power? What is the role of AI? Current burning issues in ESD" - Teaching and Learning Lab [CLE 44] [EN]:
Samuele Provenzi, Sandro Carniel: "Flumia / Acqua Lux – Making Invisible Energy Processes Perceptible through Sensory and Transformative Learning" - Panel discussion [CLE 31] [EN]:
Béatrice Chandellier, Aurélien Decamps, Katarzny Żygadło; facilitated by Jule Neumann: "Mainstreaming and Assessing Sustainability Literacy: Experience and Perspective from Students, Faculty, and Program Managers"
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Rosie Westerveld:
10.30 - 10.45 CET ⭢ BREAK
[Main Hall]
10.45 - 12.15 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS G
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Giulia Sonetti:
- Giulia Sonetti, Lola Kengen: "Re-Futuring Agency in STEM Higher Education: Futures-Thinking Methodologies for Transformative Education for Sustainable Development"
- Deepika Joon, Zintle Songqwaru: "Integration of ESD in Teacher Education policies and framework in Sub-Saharan Africa"
- Valentina Tassone, Tanja Tillmanns, Alfredo Salomao Filho: "Ringing the Bells: a Compass for Attending to Relational Teaching and Learning within More-Than-Human Worlds"
- Stephanie Stiegel, Elisa Dettlof: "Unlearning sustainability: decolonial paradigm shifts towards plural knowledge ecologies, reflexive learning, and collective design communities" - Teaching and Learning Lab [CLE 33] [EN]:
Charlotte Karlsson, Marilyn Mehlmann, Lyudmyla Guryeyeva: "From climate anxiety to collective agency" - Networking Corner [CLE 31] [EN]:
Elena Beringer, Charlotte Voigt: "Decolonisation of Higher Education Institutions and Artificial Intelligence" - Collective Intelligence Boost [CLE 44] [EN]:
Magdalène Levy-Tödter: "Linking Sustainability and Internationalization Strategies at Universities beyond sustainable mobility and third mission"
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Giulia Sonetti:
12.15 - 14.00 CET ⭢ LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS H
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Yvan Oustalet:
- Bettina Hollstein [via Zoom]: "Experiencing emotions in resonant courses of ESD"
- Mitsunori Misawa, Juanita Johnson-Bailey [via Zoom]: "Collaborative Autoethnography as a Way to Negotiate, Survive, and Thrive in Academia"
- Jamon Flowers, Juanita Johnson-Bailey [via Zoom]: "Leaving No One Behind: Intergenerational Mentoring as Faculty Learning Architecture for Transformative ESD" - Collective Intelligence Boost [CLE 31] [EN]:
Johanna Tilche-Jean: "Social and Solidarity Economy and Transformative Education: insights from a field diagnosis with young children through eco- creative popular education practice for a new leadership" - Teaching and Learning Lab [CLE 44] [EN]:
Tom White, Brian McAdoo [via Zoom]: "Visualising Planetary Health: Photography as Storytelling and Research "
- Paper presentations [Auditorium] [EN]; facilitated by Yvan Oustalet:
15.00 - 15.15 CET ⭢ BREAK
[Main Hall]
15.15 - 16.45 CET ⭢ HARVESTING & CLOSING PANEL
[Auditorium] [Translation]
with Daniel Fischer (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Zintle Songqwaru (Rhodes University) and personal short summaries by Marilyn Mehlmann (Legacy17), Anne Snick (Club of Rome), Elmahdi Benabdeljalil (Amal Biladi); facilitated by Michael Yang (COPERNICUS Alliance)
18.00 CET ⭢ PARTY TIME / LA BOUM: TAPAS & MUSIC
ORGANISERS & CONTACT
The 2026 HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT was organised by the COPERNICUS Alliance, the UNESCO Chair in Training of Sustainable Development Professionals at the University Bordeaux Montaigne, the UNESCO Chair in Responsible Global Management at Bern University of Applied Sciences, the Nouvelle Aquitaine Network of Associations for Development and International Solidarity (RADSI-NA), oikos International and Students Organizing for Sustainability International.
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