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Education for Sustainability
The University of Padua offers a wide selection of degree courses. Students can pursue their academic goals by choosing from a range of studies from science to humanities, economics to social sciences and pedagogy to law. Giving visibility to its educational commitment to sustainability, University of Padua professors and educators began specifying topics related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their respective course curriculum and syllabus at the start of the 2017-2018 academic year.
More than 50% of the course units offered by the University focus on at least one of the 17 SDGs outlined in the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
The University has also promoted the contents of the 2030 Agenda by creating the e-learning course “The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals” and making it accessible to the entire university community.
The Sustainability Education offer
The following is a selection of Bachelor, Master, Doctoral, higher education, and general courses focusing on issues related to sustainable development goals (a.y. 2023/2024).
In 2024, the General Course ‘Sustainability Ambassadors. Knowing, promoting, practising sustainability’ was launched. The course The course was developed by the Department of Chemistry of the University of Padua, in collaboration with the Municipality of Padua and AcegasApsAmga S.p.A., and under the patronage of the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (RUS). The aim of the General Course is to raise citizens’ awareness of more sustainable behaviour in relation to the urban territory they inhabit and reinforcing their sense of responsibility in taking care of the environment. This is a 6-credit course is open to all students and University staff, with 20 free places reserved for University employees and 10 additional free places reserved for staff of the Municipality of Padua and AcegasApsAmga (five for each institution). This course content is structured into teaching modules and practical laboratory activities covering topics such as commitment to sustainability, food, mobility, health, and the sustainable management of resources.
Degree and Master’s courses are only open to students enrolled at the University, while MOOCs are also available to interested citizens.
DEGREE COURSES
- Biology of Human and Environmental Health (International course)
- Cultural tourism planning and management
- Digital technologies for building and land
- Earth and Climate Dynamics
- Energy Engineering
- Environment and workplace prevention techniques
- Environmental and land planning engineering
- Environmental sciences and technology
- Forestry and environmental technology
- Language, literature and cultural communication
- Management and planning of land and green infrastructures
- Organic crop management
- Political sciences, international relations, human rights
- Social Work (Qualifying for Welfare Officers)
- Spatial planning and landscape protection
- Third Sector Legal Advisor
MASTER’S DEGREE COURSES:
- Civil and industrial safety engineering
- Cultural pluralism, social change and migrations
- Electrical engineering
- Energy Engineering (International course)
- Entrepreneurship and innovation (International course)
- Environmental engineering (International course)
Environmental Sustainability and Education (International course)
- European and global studies (International course)
Food and Health (International course)
- Forest science (International course)
- Forestry and environmental science
- Geophysics for natural risks and resources (International course)
- Human rights and multi-level governance (International course)
- Innovation and social work
- International relations and diplomacy
- Land and environment science and technology
- Landscape studies
- Local Development (International course)
- Management for Sustainable Firms (International course)
- Psychology of community, wellness promotion, and social change
- Sustainable Agriculture (International course)
- Sustainable chemistry and technologies for circular economy (International course)
- Sustainable Territorial Development – Climate Change, diversity, cooperation (International course)
- Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Sustainability
- Water and Geological Risk Engineering (International course)
PHD AND HIGHER EDUCATION:
- Advanced Training Course “Cultural Heritage Law in the Ecological and Digital Transition: Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Environment”
- Advanced training course “Guidance and career counseling for inclusion, sustainability and social justice”
- Advanced training course “Practices and tools for educational professionalism in early childhood services”
- Advanced training course “Together for positive development in educational contexts: social-emotional competences as life skills”
- Crop Science
- Fusion science and engineering
- Human rights, society, and multi-level governance (PhD joint degree)
- Land, environment, resources and health
- Sustainability in education
MASTERS:
- European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation E.MA
- Geostatistics for human, animal and environmental health
- GIScience and remotely piloted systems for the integrated management of land and natural resources
- Manager of Sustainable Local Development – MSLS
- Project management and innovation management
Sustainable technologies for materials and surfaces treatments for industrial applications
- Strategic Environmental Management
- Urban security and anti-violence
GENERAL COURSES:
Full list of the general courses of the University of Padua
ONLINE COURSES:
- Equity and Inclusion online course
- Sustain-ability: our journey for the planet
- The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
MOOC:
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