Online Seminar: Sustainability & Entrepreneurship: Climate Change Innovation Education May 10, 11am-12.30pm
To answer the challenge of climate change we must empower educators and young people so that we can achieve a zero-carbon economy. Skills and competencies need to be developed so that young people have the abilities to become change-makers and lead systemic innovation. Following the methodology of the Young Innovators Programme from the EIT Climate-KIC, this seminar will share some of the facilitated techniques of climate change challenges. We will also discuss how at the organisational level Higher Education Institutions can embody this change as well as how to develop learning outcomes that can integrate innovation and climate mitigation competences.
Learning Objectives
- Present the Young Innovators Programme from the EIT Climate-KIC as a good practice example
- Introduce the EU’s DigComp & DigCompEdu digital competence frameworks as tools
- Show an experimental framework to building educator skills for climate change & innovation
Learning Outcomes
- Understand why the Young Innovators Programme is a good practice in climate change innovation education and its modalities of implementation
- Recognise the role of digital education in sustainability education and how they are connected
- Envisage new frameworks and EU projects to supporting educators and their training needs to empower them to bring climate change innovation education in the classroom
About Prof. Dana T. Redford
Dana Redford, PhD is Founder and President of the Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP), a Lisbon-based NGO that supports evidence-based policymaking in education reform and economic development. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC-Berkeley. Dr. Redford works on innovation, entrepreneurship and climate change and coordinates projects on education, social inclusion and sustainability. He has worked as an expert for the European Commission, the OECD, the United Nations, and various European and African governments. He coordinated the largest policy experimentation project on entrepreneurship in schools in the EU using RCTs and mixed methods research across 4 countries. He helped to co-developed the OECD-European Commission HEInnovate initiative and the EntreComp framework and community. He co-edited the Entrepreneurial University Handbook and in Africa and the Middle East he has helped lead initiatives on high impact entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and business incubation.
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