What should HEIs do about the planetary crisis - moving from ambition to action.
TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus (East Quad), EQ 116, Thursday 30th May, 10:00-16:00
Beginning last September in Galway, a growing community of academics, university staff, students, and community groups has started to meet together regularly to ask the question, What should Higher Education Institutions do about the Planetary Crisis? These discussions take as a starting point the fact that the crisis we face is a polycrisis, whereby the transgression of planetary boundaries is deeply entangled with social, economic, gender, racial, and intergenerational injustices.
Meetings in Galway in November 2023 and in Belfast in March 2024 have enabled us to share insights and experiences and to identify shared values and visions. The goal of the next meeting is to cohere as a group and mobilise into action.
The focus for action in the Dublin event is how to secure a cross-institution requirement for Education for Sustainable Development across all undergraduate degree programmes on the island of Ireland.
This event is free and open to academics, non-academic staff at HEIs, students, and civil society and community groups.
We hope you will join us and commit to enacting real change in our HEIs!
Please direct questions to Clare Kelly (clare.kelly@tcd.ie), Kenneth Boyle (ken.boyle@TUDublin.ie) and/or Michael Cronin (CRONINM8@tcd.ie)
The event is being co-hosted by TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin
Agenda
Programme
10:00 – 10:45 Introduction
What does a requirement for Education for Sustainable Development look like?
10:45 – 11:45 Participatory Session 1
How can an ESD requirement be implemented in my university - identifying leverage points.
11.45 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Provocations:
Becoming change agents in academia and beyond
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee
14:00 – 16:00 Participatory Session 2
Building a movement - identifying stakeholders and committing to actions
16:00 Drinks in The Barbers Bar
