COSY Thinking

Capacity building on complex systems thinking

Financiers

EU

Project type

Research

Context

Sustainability issues show the characteristics of complex systems, as they are part of the continuously changing, self-organising, interdependent and adaptive systems in our world.

Objectives

The project identifies two main specific objectives:

Strengthen the collaboration among academic institutions provide them with a clearer picture of the range of opportunities between the universal and the particular Provide academic lecturers and managerial staff with knowledge, skills and tools for adapting their educational activities with a specific focus on sustainable development Provide undergraduate students with competences on complex systems thinking as a basis for sustainability action and make them employable in organizations interested to meet the sustainable development goals.

Target Groups

The project is addressed to:

University students

Lecturers

Policy makers in the field of education

The main project results include:

An inventory providing motivation and guidance for designing new courses specialized on complex systems thinking as well as for the integration of systems thinking through interdisciplinary approaches in existing courses.

A toolkit consisting in a set of media-based teaching tools focused on Sustainable Development issues addressed to a multidisciplinary approach.

A Joint Curriculum engaging Higher education decision-makers, experts and lecturers in defining a shared complex systems and system thinking based interdisciplinary learning path and related curriculum in Sustainable Development.

Research financier: Erasmus+ strategic partnership for school education.

Research area / geographic area

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies Media Technology Environmental Science Environmental Studies Europe

Contract ID

2020-1-SE01-KA203-077872

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22-02-2025

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