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Reducing air travel emissions in academia: an exploration of universities’ manoeuvring room
- University of Graz
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the manoeuvring room of higher education institutions to take action to reduce emissions from academic flying. In particular, this study investigates how university staff ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Virtual conferences in higher education: Teasing out their transformative potential for sustainable development
- University of Graz
- University of Bern
- Universitat de Girona (Girona)
- Empa Technology & Society Laboratory (Sankt Gallen)
The Coronavirus outbreak has made virtual education a high necessity. Our intention here was to highlight potentials of virtual conferences to enhance transformative learning for sustainable development; new applications will ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Project-Based Learning in a Transinstitutional Research Setting: Case Study on the Development of Sustainable Food Products
- University of Graz
- FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences (Steiermark)
Project-based learning (PBL) has been thoroughly integrated in university sustainable development curricula, but has not been well-established in curricula used at pre-university educational levels. Integrating real-world settings into the teaching ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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How to Assess Transformative Performance towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions
- University of Graz
This article highlights the role of sustainability appraisal for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Traditional HEI appraisal systems lack a way to assess the integration of sustainability principles reflecting societal needs ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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It’s a Hit! Mapping Austrian Research Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- University of Graz
- University of Innsbruck
- University of Leoben
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a global agenda addressing social, economic, and environmental challenges in a holistic approach. Universities can contribute to the implementation of the SDGs by ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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The Climate-Friendly Global Academic Conference with a Human Touch
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
- University of Graz
Aviation is responsible for a large proportion of the climate impact of professional life in university communities. One much-discussed option for reducing this climate impact is to shift some conferencing ...
- Posted Sept. 13, 2018
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Global academic conferencing: A semi-virtual approach
- University of Graz
Scholars and their institutions contribute significantly to global warming by flying to conferences. An intercontinental return flight in economy class can be compared with burning a ton of fossil carbon ...
- Posted Sept. 12, 2018
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