BOKU sustainability newsletter February 2022

Contents

Sustainability at the BOKU Campus

Sustainably healthy – the BOKU Health Days 2022

This year, in the anniversary year of our university, the BOKU Health Days have the motto "sustainably healthy". The first Health Day will take place on May 17, 2022 at the Türkenschanze. The focus is on mobility and physical health. In terms of content, the event will be organized for the first time in cooperation with the Center for Global Change and Sustainability.

You can expect a wide range of health information, health checks and health advice and workshops aimed at maintaining or improving individual health. On the other hand, it should also be possible to make a social contribution to healthier and more sustainable development.

Further information: boku.ac.at/gesunde-boku/gesundheitstag

Sustainability in teaching

Lectures for Future summer term 2022 - Call for lectures

With the summer term 2022 the Lectures for Future will enter the sixth edition!
We invite you to register your lecture for the Lectures for Future this semester! To do so, please fill out the call for lectures until January 30th, 2022.

The L4F are a cross-university, interdisciplinary lecture series that offers interested people current insights into scientific and artistic work on the climate crisis and other grand challenges in an accessible way.
Here you can find an overview of last semester’s program (a new website for the L4F is currently being developed).

What are the conditions for guest lecturers?

  • Guest lectures can be submitted by scientists, artists, as well as individuals and organizations with a connection to climate and sustainability. In the spirit of interdisciplinary exchange, one of the main ideas of the L4F is that guest lecturers present at a university other than their own.
  • The guest lectures are distributed among the participating universities and the coordinators of the respective universities will then contact you for further procedure.
  • The L4F format is implemented individually by the participating universities, which means that the general conditions (e.g. language, online/presence, audience) will vary slightly. The length of a lecture is approximately 60-90 minutes including discussion.

For any further questions please contact L4F(at)uni-ak.ac.at or learn more on the Lectures for Future website.

Education for Sustainable Development

The summer semester 2022 offers the opportunity to critically reflect on education for sustainable development (ESD), to exchange views on a wide range of content-related challenges and to deal with didactic methods in the context of ESD. As part of the BOKU advanced training program, two workshops that build on each other are offered in an interactive setting. In this way education for sustainable development and the associated goal of social transformation can be tackled in depth and used sustainably. Registration is via the BOKU training pass.

Workshop Basics of education for sustainable development. Date: May 12th, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Online or face-to-face event. Group size: max. 18 participants. All info HERE.

Workshop Deepening Education for Sustainable Development. Date: May 19th, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Online or face-to-face event. Group size: max. 12 participants. All info HERE.

Contact: julia.wlasak(at)boku.ac.at & thomas.lindenthal(at)boku.ac.at

 

Peer learning: Values in teaching in the context of sustainability

The advanced training invites all teachers at BOKU to deal with "values in teaching in the context of sustainability" and to reflect perspectives and values in their own courses. In addition to showing course concepts, didactic approaches and the teaching and learning success from the teachers' point of view, tools are developed together as to how values of sustainable development and a value discourse can be consciously lived and taught in university operations and teaching.
Date: May 25, 2022, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Venue: Online or face-to-face event. Group size: max. 12 participants. All information HERE.

Contact: michael.braito(at)boku.ac.at & thomas.lindenthal(at)boku.ac.at

 

Teaching resources Sustainicum Collection

In the summer semester 2022 there will be again the opportunity for all teachers and those interested in sustainability to get to know the teaching resource platform Sustainicum Collection (www.sustainicum.at). As part of the BOKU's advanced training program, two consecutive workshops are offered in an interactive setting. In this way, the innovative teaching resources of the platform with a focus on sustainability can be tried out and used profitably. Registration is via the BOKU training pass.

Workshop Sustainicum Collection I: Get to know and try out teaching resources for education on sustainability. Date: June, 2nd, 2022, time: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Location: Online or face-to-face event. Group size: min. 4- max. 12 participants.

Workshop Sustainicum Collection II: Developing teaching resources for education on sustainability and using them profitably (specialization). Date: June, 9th, 2022, time: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., location: online or face-to-face event. Group size: min. 4- max. 12 participants.

Contact: julia.wlasak(at)boku.ac.at