We presented the CASE project at the 8th World Environmental Education Congress 2015 (June 29 – July 2) in Gothenburg, Sweden. In our presentation we highlighted knowledge-alliances in business-university cooperations and sustainable entrepreneurial higher education in order to discuss good practice and research questions concerning those two aspects.
The overarching theme of the international congress was „Planet and People – how can they develop together?“. The organizers purposefully left out the third P – for Profit. But still, we have interdependent economies throughout the world that are highly powerful in structuring our societies and influence our living conditions. And fortunately there are other educators and researchers like us with huge interest in changing business (education) to foster sustainable development.
Our workshop took place at the last conference day, right in the early morning. A group of very interested and engaged participants showed up. We had very intense discussion-rounds in four smaller groups, where all participants shared their experiences. New ideas and connections emerged for our work. We thank all participants for theirs fruitful contributions. Let’s stay in contact!
Just two more remarks on the issue of „terms“:
One participant pointed to the distinction between „sustainable entrepreneurial higher education“ (as named in our workshop abstract) and „entrepreneurial higher education for sustainability“. What are we heading for?
Another participant from an African country left the discussion after indicating that she was not pleased with the project intention to promote „Sustainable Entrepreneurship“. To us it seemed that she had a different understanding of the term „Sustainable Entrepreneurship“. Perhaps „entrepreneurship“ rises associations like profit, exploitation, egocentricity etc. and not so much associations like change agent, welfare and worldwide fairness.
These remarks on „terms“ may stimulate fruitful further thinking.
More infos about WEEC 2015.
