Education for Sustainable Development
2009, Finance, Accounting and Financial Analysis
https://doi.org/10.1051/MATECCONFAbstract
Education for sustainable development in an intense subject and dissemination of good practices are of tremendous need for actors of academia and for those of vocational education, too. Managers and employees must extend their current skills related to sustainability and become leaders in the field. The article presents the last years' experience on the development of a skills development schema on leadership in sustainability and teaching and educating sustainability. These two training skills and the related training materials have been developed through two international projects and partnerships at the European level: (1) LeadSUS-Leadership in sustainability-Sustainability Manager, (2013-1-RO1-LEO05-28771) developed from 2013 to 2016 and having impact on a target group consisting of companies' employees (most of them managers); (2) TeachSUS-Teaching and educating for Sustainability, (2018-1-R001-KA204-049253) that will be develop from 2018 to 2020 and that will target vocational education and training (VET) actors. After a brief presentation of developed skill cards related to educational programs in sustainable development filed, a critical analysis of the implementation potential will underline the strengths and weakness of the actual educational system of higher education to assimilate and implement the proposals (tested and validated with a significant group of trainees).
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