DIGITALCAMPUS BIZIA LAB: A UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (UPV/EHU) PROGRAMME AIMED AT WORKING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY VIA A TRANSDICIPLINARY APPROACH BASED ON COOPERATION
University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2019 Proceedings
Publication year: 2019
Pages: 2887-2892
ISBN: 978-84-09-08619-1
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2019.0769
Publication year: 2019
Pages: 2887-2892
ISBN: 978-84-09-08619-1
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2019.0769
Conference name: 13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 11-13 March, 2019
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: 11-13 March, 2019
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
Campus Bizia Lab is a University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) programme arising from the Erasmus Project University Education for Sustainable Development (US4SD) for addressing the sustainability challenges at our university’s three campuses by means of a cross-cutting approach involving students, administrative and academic staff.The programme consists of a research-action process aimed at developing a high-impact practice (HIP) on students (cross-cutting learning based on challenges concerned with sustainability) in which lecturers act as researchers into their own practices. This HIP is curricular in nature, and is handled via final year projects for bachelor’s degrees (TFG) and masters’ courses (TFM).
These challenges, which were defined by the Campus Bizia Lab community in a seminar, include Energy Transition, Circular Economy, Waste Management, Mobility and Urban Planning, Culture and Sustainability, Responsible Production and Consumption, Healthy Eating and Education for Transformation.
Campus Bizia Lab began to operate during the 2017-18 academic year, after a pilot experience conducted the previous year. In this first edition, 176 people (84 women and 92 men) from over 10 different faculties (including Engineering, Education, Science, Economics and Business and Fine Arts) participated in 18 projects. A second edition has recently commenced for academic year 2018-19, in which 27 people (17 women and 10 men) from various groups have joined the programme on four new projects.
To disseminate results and facilitate synergies with projects on the Campus Bizia Lab programme, a page has been set up for each of them on the website of Directorate for Sustainability. Additionally, in October 2018 saw the organising of the 1st Congress of UPV/EHU Students under the title “Nuestros trabajos sirven para transformar el mundo” [“Our work serves to change the world”], in which students participating in the programme presented their Bachelor’s Degree Dissertations on their experience and the results of these projects.