Workshop - Strategies for sustainability education in master's programs

SESSION D08 / / 22 May 2026 / 09:30 - 10:45
Workshop - Strategies for sustainability education in master's programs
Chair / Presidente: Enrico Boccaleri (IT)

This workshop aims at clubbing the collective expertise of participants to develop a framework for an International Interdisciplinary Master course in Sustainability. The proposed approach is to use the SISTEM (Strategie Integrate per la Sostenibilità e la Transizione Ecologica) Master course, given by the Università del Piemonte Orientale with an innovative digital-based teaching model as a case study and baseline. SISTEM in fact, in the second edition currently ongoing, is a pilot project within the EDUNEXT digital ecosystem, designed to train experts with a time-effective approach. The scope of the workshop is to analyze how to widen this multidisciplinary approach to a global level, addressing macroeconomic challenges and global policies such as the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participants will discuss how to integrate diverse fields of knowledge and expertise—from ecology and chemistry to economics and law —into a cohesive international teaching framwork able to overcome the differences in language and to take profit of specific competencies internationally distributed.

Workshop Agenda:

• Introduction: Presentation of the EDUNEXT project and the SISTEM Master model and teaching programme.
  
  
• Case Study Analysis: The 4 Educational Clusters of SISTEM.
  Analysis of the integrated approach covering Earth Resources, Human Impact (Energy/Waste), Sustainability Strategies (Circular Economy, Supply Chain), and Legal/Soft Skills.
  
  
• Interactive Session: Co-designing the International Curriculum.
  Participants will be divided into working groups to brainstorm an international syllabus that integrates key international partners into the SISTEM framework, designing specific profiles and enlarging the topics:
  - Topic A: Integrating Policy & Environmental Law with Society
  - Topic B: Circular Economy & Urban Mining (Technical & Economic aspects)
  - Topic C: Digital delivery & Results assessment (The EDUNEXT model)
  - Topic D: ...
  
  
• Conclusion & Roadmap: Defining a Memorandum of Understanding to promote the participation of Universities to an international edition of the Master.
  Definition of the steps for an academic assessment of the course.