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"We will provide our students with all the necessary qualifications for future-proof, responsible, and sustainable action in the spirit of education for sustainable development."
The courses and modules of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) currently implemented at TUD and their monitoring represent good practices for strategically anchoring, internationally expanding, and structurally promoting sustainability in teaching in the future, accompanied by appropriate quality management. The aim is to ensure a high quality of ESD in the courses available at TUD by having appropriately trained teaching staff in order to empower students to think critically and to act responsibly with regard to ecological sustainability.
Our objectives
With its Sustainability Strategy, TU Dresden is committed to the following goals:
- The range of courses related to sustainability and aimed at ESD enables students at TU Dresden to think critically and reflectively about sustainability and to act responsibly in line with the SDGs.
- At TU Dresden, structural framework conditions exist for the (further) development of tools and courses in order to enable lecturers to design their teaching in the respective subject disciplines in line with ESD.
Measures
The working plan for achieving the sustainability goals for 2024–2030 comprises 80 measures for all six areas of activity. Below, we present three key priority measures for the teaching area of activity.
- (Further) development of an interdisciplinary and research-oriented range of courses on sustainability (short to medium -term)
Creation of conditions and advanced-training opportunities for stakeholders involved in teaching, with the aim of establishing a portfolio for the interdisciplinary promotion of sustainability skills among students. - Incentives for the integration of ESD into subject-related teaching (medium-term)
Development and implementation of suitable incentive measures for the design of sustainability-oriented subject-related teaching, with the aim of promoting sustainability skills in teaching.
The measures listed are examples of the Teaching area of activity of the Sustainability Strategy. The development of the measures is the responsibility of the Vice-Rectorate Academic Affairs and is being pursued as part of the sTUDies 3.0 teaching strategy.
For more information on this area of activity, please see our brochure on TU Dresden’s Sustainability Strategy (accessible PDF).
What you can do
Want to do your part and make your daily life more sustainable? We invite you to chip in and try out ideas and projects for more sustainability at TU Dresden.
