Visby city wall
In mid May 2016, Gabriela Schaad and Mikael Olsson, CASE team members from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, met colleagues from other Swedish universities at Campus Gotland in Visby, Sweden, to exchange experiences and thoughts on sustainability education. The meeting was organised by HU2, a Swedish network for Higher Education for Sustainable Development.
Gabriela and Mikael presented the core aspects and elements of CASE and sought for potential for cooperation and synergies. The basis was set for further exchanges of information and possible future collaboration.
Raine Isaksson from Uppsala University informed on how to assess and estimate the universities’ sustainability efforts. The assessment aimed at creating a proposed synthesis of a generic perfect process, translating the perfect process into educational and learning processes and testing the process for Sweden using data from the national database Studera.nu and from university web pages.
Stefan Bengtsson from SWEDESD, the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development, talked about SWEDESD´s work as national coordinator for the Global Action Plan (GAP).
Ulf Andersson from the University of Gothenburg informed on the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s commission of the Swedish government to evaluate the universities’ work with sustainable development, including ethics, poverty reduction, sustainable urbanization, democracy, and governance.
There was also a presentation of the one-year “Master in Sustainable Programme Management” at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland presented by Jenny Helin.
Finally, Ann-Sofie Köping Olsson and Peter Dobers talked about their mission to establish a Master degree in “Sustainable Society Development” at Södertörn University.
