The CCSD can provide support for enhancing the NGU’s concept of integrating education for sustainable development (ESD) in academic teaching. We integrate ESD in our own courses and we support student groups that conduct research projects with sustainability-related topics. We also offer summer courses not only characterized by a broad range of topics, but also by a wide variety of methods. For some events, we cooperate with external partners. Our events are aimed not only at NGU students, but also students from other universities, as well as other target groups. With our educational work for sustainable development and in line with the UN Decade of ESD (2005-2014) and the UNESCO Global Action Programme and its national implementation, we want to expand the inventory of systems and values knowledge for students about sustainability and motivate them to participate actively in the discourse surrounding ecological, economic and social development processes. Second, our events target the development of transformational and practical knowledge to support the participants in developing skills that enable them to realize change. We are members of the ESD-university network and we’re in the working group “ESD biosphere reserve Swabian Alb”.
