Bringing Sustainability to Life Climate Action Summit 2012 Education for UWS Bringing Sustainability to Life Forum Overview Focus A new role for higher education the opportunity Key lessons on effective change in education Motivators for engagement in EfS Building Education for Sustainability across the University Bringing Sustainability to Life The strategic context & opportunity for UWS UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development UN University & 100 RCEs AVCC (now UA) commitment to DESD 2006 & review 2012 Rio +20 Higher Education Treaty on EfS National Action Plan for EfS ACARA & VET specific focus on sustainability Predicted increase in demand Hanover 2010/GUNI Talloires Network leaders conference Sustainable Futures Leadership Academy Universities as living laboratories on sustainability the UWS master plan for Hawkesbury Bringing Sustainability to Life Key lessons from 40 years innovation & research in school, VET, higher and community education Good ideas with no ideas on how to implement them are wasted ideas Reformers have the misplaced notion that change is achieved by brute logic We rise to great heights by a winding staircase Change doesnt just happen but must be led People are more likely to act their way into new ways of thinking than think their way into new ways of acting I hear & I forget, I see & I remember, I do & I understand Change is a complex learning (and unlearning) process for all concerned: it is not an event Bringing Sustainability to Life What engages people in change (i.e. learning)? Relevance & feasibility Intrinsic motivators An immediate/shared crisis Seeing an icon for ones life about to disappear The health of ones children & loved ones Relationships, relationships, relationships connection Moral purpose Extrinsic motivators Compliance Penalties Rewards & awards Jobs/income Walmart & the Blue Economy Loss of business/strategic position/image Bringing Sustainability to Life What engages people in change (i.e. learning) contd Peer group What the peer group does Active encouragement and support Workable solutions to gaps via a network of fellow travellers Seeing successful examples in action Site visits Virtual visits University as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability Bringing Sustainability to Life Emerging jobs and demand Jobs & Enterprises Environment, Energy, Water, Business, Industry, Law, Manufacture, Design, Transport, Government, Public Policy, Councils, NGOs, NFPs, Blue Economy, compliance, sustainability accounting Half the employers in the UK are giving focus to this US Bureau of statistics predicts increase of 20% by 2018 Demand UK 2010 HE students 80% believe skills in this area are key; sustainability credentials of uni influence choice, 65% want EfS embedded USA the Princeton study; Tufts as an exemplar; Tufts database AASHE best schools with high demand UCLA, New Hampshire, ASU, Chico State, Emory, Furman, Portland State, San Diego State, Simon Fraser, UBC, Royal Roads Bringing Sustainability to Life The Blue Economy Money from Waste & Business as ecology Bringing Sustainability to Life The Blue Economy Money from Waste & Business as ecology Bringing Sustainability to Life Some current EfS initiatives at UWS UWS Riverfarm a U.N. Case study of EfS Partnership with HEN, TAFE WSI, HCMA, GWS schools Living Laboratory GPIS & augmented reality Learning through experience SURF UN University Regional Centre of Expertise in EfS Co-op Ed Students and placements Bringing Sustainability to Life Key challenges & solutions from TLSHE The financial imperative Engaging the senior executives No room for more in the curriculum Finding proven solutions and approaches networking with AASHE, Copernicus etc Your views, questions & suggestions