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The European project entitled Cosy Thinking – Enhancing higher education on COmplex SYstems Thinking for sustainable development was written and coordinated by Pixel in cooperation with the project applicant Sodertorns Hogskola, based in Huddinge (Sweden), and the scientific coordinator, University of Perugia, based in Perugia (Italy). The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education. The Cosy Thinking European project aims at providing undergraduate students with competences and skills on complex systems in relation to sustainable development.
Funding Programme
Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education
Theme
Environment
Target group
Higher Education, School Education
Project Reference
2020-1-SE01-KA203-077872
Date
01-09-2020 | 31-08-2023
Role of Pixel
Technical Coordinator
Project Details
Project Title
Enhancing higher education on COmplex SYstems Thinking for sustainable development
Context
Sustainability issues show the characteristics of complex systems, as they are part of the continuously changing, self-organising, interdependent and adaptive systems in our world.
Objectives
The project identifies two main specific objectives:
- Strengthen the collaboration among academic institutions provide them with a clearer picture of the range of opportunities between the universal and the particular
- Provide academic lecturers and managerial staff with knowledge, skills and tools for adapting their educational activities with a specific focus on sustainable development
- Provide undergraduate students with competences on complex systems thinking as a basis for sustainability action and make them employable in organizations interested to meet the sustainable development goals.
Target Group
The project is addressed to:
- University students
- Lecturers
- Policy makers in the field of education
Results
The main project results include:
- An inventory providing motivation and guidance for designing new courses specialized on complex systems thinking as well as for the integration of systems thinking through interdisciplinary approaches in existing courses.
- A toolkit consisting in a set of media-based teaching tools focused on Sustainable Development issues addressed to a multidisciplinary approach.
- A Joint Curriculum engaging Higher education decision-makers, experts and lecturers in defining a shared complex systems and system thinking based interdisciplinary learning path and related curriculum in Sustainable Development.