09.00 - 10.30 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS F
- Paper presentations [EN]:
- 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, Katrin Kohl: "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: "Training for the Pressure to Perform: How Higher Education Can Equip Future Sustainability Practitioners for the VUCA Reality" - Collective Intelligence Boost [EN]:
Alexandra Wolf: "Whose sustainability? Whose power? What is the role of AI? Current burning issues in ESD" - Teaching and Learning Lab [EN]:
Samuele Provenzi, Sandro Carniel: "Flumia / Acqua Lux – Making Invisible Energy Processes Perceptible through Sensory and Transformative Learning" - Panel discussion [EN]:
Aurélien Decamps, Béatrice Chandellier, Gaëlle Mourier-Bouchon; facilitated by Jule Neumann: "Mainstreaming and Assessing Sustainability Literacy in France: Experience and Perspective from Students, Faculty, and Program Managers"
- Paper presentations [EN]:
10.30 - 10.45 CET ⭢ BREAK
10.45 - 12.15 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS G
- Paper presentations [EN]:
- Debbie French: "Foundations for the Future: Empowering Students via Climate-Focused Seminars"
- 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 [EN]:
Charlotte Karlsson, Marilyn Mehlmann, Lyudmyla Guryeyeva: "From climate anxiety to collective agency" - Networking Corner [EN]:
Elena Beringer, Charlotte Voigt: "Decolonisation of Higher Education Institutions and Artificial Intelligence" - Collective Intelligence Boost [EN]:
Magdalène Levy-Tödter: "Linking Sustainability and Internationalization Strategies at Universities beyond sustainable mobility and third mission"
- Paper presentations [EN]:
12.15 - 13.45 CET ⭢ LUNCH
13.45 - 15.15 CET ⭢ PARALLEL SESSIONS H
- Collective Intelligence Boost [EN]: Maria Eduarda Caminha: "How do sustainability research projects at the University of Lisbon enable or constrain the agency of women of non-European identities, and what does this reveal about the inclusivity of institutional sustainability initiatives?"
- Teaching and Learning Lab [EN]: Tom White, Brian McAdoo: "Visualising Planetary Health: Photography as Storytelling and Research "
- Collective Intelligence Boost [FR+EN Translation]: Maria Garcia Vigueras, Lise Tregloze: "Transformer les formations d’ingénieurs : des petits rebonds au périlleux plongeon"
- tbc
- Collective Intelligence Boost [EN]: Maria Eduarda Caminha: "How do sustainability research projects at the University of Lisbon enable or constrain the agency of women of non-European identities, and what does this reveal about the inclusivity of institutional sustainability initiatives?"
15.15 - 15.30 CET ⭢ BREAK
15.30 - 17.00 CET ⭢ HARVESTING & CLOSING PANEL
[EN+FR Translation]
with Daniel Fischer, Marilyn Mehlmann, Zintle Songqwaru, tbc
18.00 CET ⭢ PARTY TIME / LA BOUM: TAPAS & MUSIC
ORGANISERS & CONTACT
The 2026 HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT is 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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