Projects
Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development to Enhance Graduates’ Employability Competencies in Kenya (Contribution at Invitational Seminar on Environmental and Sustainability Education Research) Ghent University
Valorizing Integrated and Action-Oriented Education for Sustainable Development at School (VALIES). University of Antwerp
Higher education for sustainable development in the humanities and social sciences: Opening the black box. KU Leuven
The starting point of this project is the observation that lecturers in the humanities and social sciences adopt knowledge and approaches from other disciplines in teaching Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) courses. More specifically, HESD in the humanities and social sciences makes use of interdisciplinary scientific research as well as interdisciplinary perspectives on root causes of sustainability problems. They do so in ...
Transforming Education Area and Competency Hub for Sustainable Development Odisee vzw
Valorizing Integrated and Action-Oriented Education for Sustainable Development at School KU Leuven
Learning outcomes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) usually reflect a change in learners' knowledge about sustainability issues, but rarely translate into increased attitudes or competences to address sustainable development effectively as well. Although there is a growing consensus about what ESD's learning outcomes should be, there is no consensus yet on how to measure them. There is also a lacune when it comes to empirics ...
Sabbatical Nathal Severijns: Development of education for sustainability, and research on the possible contribution of nuclear energy in the context of sustainable energy production. KU Leuven
Several years ago, I have set up a research team (ten staff members from five different faculties) to investigate the possible contribution to a sustainable society of small and medium size modular nuclear reactors (SMR) of Generation-IV, and especially the ones being able to use the spent fuel from the present generation of reactors or using the thorium cycle. Apart from technical requirements also ecological, economical and societal ...
(D)EESD - (Differential) Effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development. University of Antwerp
Fostering a platform for research-based education to support sustainable development through Tourism in the Cajas Massif Biosphere Area (CMBA). KU Leuven
The project aims at unleashing the potential of sustainable development through tourism supported by research-based education for the Global South. Especially for areas recognized by UNESCO as Biosphere Reserves or “living laboratories”, which, however, suffer from social, economic and environmental imbalances due to inadequate policies, low professionalisation, and lack of innovation, while being exposed to extractive industries. The project ...
Research based education for sustainable rural development. KU Leuven
Agreement on the VLIR Joint project 2018 Research based education for sustainable rural development in cooperation with Dr. A Nekesa Otinga of the Univeristy of Eldoret in Kenya and Simon Shibru Cheche of the Arba Minch University in Ethiopia.