Educa­tion4Change - Impulses for sustainable higher education

How can students be empowered to question critically, act with foresight and develop creative solutions for social and professional challenges?

The new short input series Education4Change offers the opportunity to exchange ideas with interested parties from various Saxon universities on innovative approaches to sustainable higher education.

In one-hour digital lunch events, experts and practitioners from various disciplines provide impulses and present good practice examples of how transformative teaching and learning formats can be designed and how university teaching prepares students to help shape a sustainable future. There will be space for discussion and questions.

Location

Online via Zoom: Participation link

Dates & topics

• 29.10.25 I 13.00 -14.00: ESD in teaching: challenges and lessonslearnedArne Cierjacks (HTW Dresden, Chair of Landscape Development & Vegetation Technology; Member of the Environmental Engineering Study Commission)
• 25.11.25 I 13.00 - 14.00: Thinking critically, learning sustainably - impulses for teaching design in the STEM field Keynotespeaker: Dr.Farahnaz Sadidi (TU Dresden, Chair of Didactics of Physics)
• Dec 9th, 2025 I 1.00 -2.00 pm:Real-World-Sustainability-Challenges for Transformative Learning - A look into the SDG Campus self-learning course for students and educators (in English) Contributer: Dr.Martin Gerner (TU Dresden, Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching / Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching)
• 16.01.25 I 13.00 - 14.00 p.m.: Foundations of Change - Civil Engineering Education in the Age of Planetary Boundaries Contributor: Oliver André Wege (TU Dresden, Institute of Concrete Structures)