Brights
Bringing HEIs Towards Sustainability
Overview on the project
The project aims to contribute to boosting and valorizing the central role of HEIs in tackling the 2030 Agenda and the Green Deal objectives. This will be done at all levels of the academic community:
- At the students’ level, the project intends to respond to the need for awareness on the SDGs and Sustainability, for skills development, necessary to ensure proper youth involvement in the transition, and as a tool of empowerment in the rising green jobs market.
- At the teaching staff level, BRIGHTS responds to the need for new methodologies to help teachers upskill and reskill their didactic modalities, and to deliver content in new stimulating ways.
- At a systemic and organisational level, BRIGHTS intends to meet the need highlighted by the Green Deal, to empower Universities in their capacity to address the green transition.
The project Brights aims at reaching three results:
- Realization of MOOCS to train students on the 2030 Agenda, and implementation of Sustainability Leadership sessions.
- Development of innovative student-centred methodologies to deliver sustainability-related teachings.
- Production of a handbook collecting and disseminating good practices related to the setting up of a Sustainability Centre (SC) in HEIs.
PROJECT RESULTS
The BRIGHTS project’s guidelines on Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Sustainability Education stress the importance of innovative approaches in European universities. Developed through collaborative efforts and data analysis from a questionnaire and workshop at the University of Pavia, the guidelines provide insights into current teaching practices and identify challenges and opportunities in higher education institutions across Europe.
NEWS:
Advancing green skills in higher education: BRIGHTS final conference
On October 11, 2024, garagErasmus organised the BRIGHTS final conference, titled Bringing Higher Education towards Sustainability. Green Skills Development and Recognition, at the European Parliament’s INFO HUB in Brussels. This event brought together stakeholders...
BRIGHTS final conference to take place on 11 October
Are you a university student, teacher or staff? Are you looking for ways to make your higher education institution more sustainable? BRIGHTS final conference "Bringing Higher Education Towards Sustainability" represents the perfect opportunity to find out about the...
Brights multiplier event takes place in Pavia
The third multiplier event of the project Brights took place in Pavia, on 29 May 2024. Organised by the University of Pavia, the event was included in the national "Festival per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile" (Festival for Sustainable Development) organised throughout Italy...
Staff Week in Cologne: boosting sustainability offices under the BRIGHTS project
On 12-14 June, the prestigious University of Cologne hosted an impactful staff week as part of the BRIGHTS project, a training tailored to elevate the competencies and effectiveness of Sustainability Offices within BRIGHTS partner universities, namely the University...
Multiplier events realized in Brussels
On May 14th, garagErasmus hosted two events in Brussels featuring Martina Altea Bellinzona, Project Manager at the University of Pavia in Italy. The two events took place at the representation of the Regione Lombardia in the morning, and at the office of the Académie...
BRIGHTS guidelines on sustainability education are out!
The BRIGHTS project (2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000030264) has published its guidelines on Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Sustaianbility Education, highlighting the critical importance of implementing innovative approaches across European universities. The project...
gE joined BRIGHTS partners in L’Aquila to discuss future steps towards HEIs in sustainability
On 10-11 April, garagErasmus joined the partners of the project BRIGHTS in L'Aquila, hosted by the University of L’Aquila and Reiss Romoli, to discuss the state of the project and the next steps to take this year towards promoting sustainability in Higher Education...
BRIGHTS at the SDG Conference in Bergen
On 7 February at 15:30, the partners of the BRIGHTS project (2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000030264) hosted the session "The Role of Green Offices in Guiding Eco-friendly Transition in Universities" at the SDG Conference in Bergen. The workshop aimed to gather insights and...
BRIGHTS new questionnaire for sustainability offices and HEIs
The questionnaire, developed in the framework of the project BRIGHTS, is intended to map and identify the state of implementation, diffusion, and utilization of sustainability strategies and measures in European Universities. Based on the questionnaire results and...
BRIGHTS partners meet in Cyprus
In June the partners of Brights met in Cyprus, in the beautiful Stelios Ioannou Resource Center of the University of Cyprus to discuss the next steps of the project together. Much has been and will be done to produce results for #HEIs to play an important part in the...
PARTNERS OF THE PROJECT
Duration
November 2021 – November 2024
Reference number: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000030264