• The Brights (Bringing HEIs Towards Sustainability) Erasmus+ 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.

    A FREE SELF-PACED, ONLINE 5-COURSE SERIES:

    • This online course pathway aims to empower and inspire young people, and potentially adults, to deepen their knowledge on today’s challenges, and become agents of change: training leadership and active citizenship is pivotal to deliver green initiatives in the local communities.
    • Upon successful completion of the course, learners will receive, for free, a digital certificate: OPEN BADGE

Available Modules

Module 1: Introduction to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the 2030 agenda

This course explores the shift in the development paradigm enshrined in the 2030 Agenda. It provides a common understanding of the Agenda's complexity and breadth, and the requirements to deliver on its 17 SDGs and 169 targets.

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Module 2: New perspectives in energy for a sustainable growth

In this course a general overview on the climate actions, with reference to SDG 13 and 7 will be provided, discussing the challenges in the framework of the European Green Deal plan. The course provides a broad overview on the current energy scenario and decarbonization concepts.

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Module 3: Water cycle & life below water

The course explores today's challenges linked to this resource: the use of waste water; contamination and pollution; new directives and regulations; the relation between pollutants and the food chain; the importance of the marine ecosystem for human life, and how human activities affect it.

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Module 4: From SDGs to practical action: Urban planning

This course provides an introduction to the main concepts around "Cities", as a fundamental element carachterizing human way of shaping Earth: how can cities shift from contributing to climate change, to agents of change?

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Module 5: Partnership & individual action for the goals

This course provides an introduction to the the Sustainable Development Goal n° 17. It delves into the concepts of Partnership: from the Institutional Perspective (cross-sectoral cooperation & cross-national partnership), to theUniversity perspective (what is their role in achieving the Goal), also providing case studies of partnerhsips developed in countries such as Thailand, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Egypt.

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All 5 Modules Complete Badge & Certificate

Enrol in this course when you have completed all modules to receive a badge and certificate for all modules. You can only receive the badge and certificate if you complete all 5 Modules!

How to complete all the Modules:

  • 80% or more in the Final Examination Quiz for each Module ( Module1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, Module 5)  

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