With nearly 10,000 views to date, it’s not surprising that awareness of the Sustainability Toolkit is growing. This has also been boosted by academics and advocates including the Toolkit in their events and talks.
With nearly 10,000 views to date, it’s not surprising that awareness of the In the last few months, the Sustainability Toolkit has been featured at recent events both home and abroad:
- 21st November 2024: Education and Skills for Climate Adaptation in Engineering
Lydia Amarquaye, IMechE’s Education & Skills Policy Lead, has written a hard-hitting blog on the changes needed to ensure engineering supports a more sustainable world. She makes three policy recommendations for government and commends the EPC’s Sustainability Toolkit.
- On 13th November 2024, Toolkit Project Manager, Professor Sarah Jayne Hitt, promoted the Toolkit in a webinar that she co-presented for the European Federation of Chemical Engineers on “How to teach sustainability”. This is available to watch on YouTube.
- At the SEFI Annual Conference, held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland the 2nd-5th September, Professor and Toolkit project manager Sarah Jayne Hitt co-facilitated a workshop on the Toolkit and other curriculum resources developed by Engineering for One Planet and Engineers Without Borders UK.
- Also at the SEFI Conference, UCL Lecturer Vivek Ramachandran advocated for using both the Sustainability and Ethics Toolkits in his paper on “Integrating Responsible Innovation into Engineering Education: Insights from Scenario Leads at UCL’s Integrated Engineering Programme.”
- Dr Lampros Litos, Sustainability Toolkit Contributor and Lecturer in Sustainability Manufacturing Operations at Cranfield, promoted the Toolkit at the EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research.
- At the ICL-IGIP Conference, held at TalTech in Tallinn, Estonia, the 24th-27th September, Prof. Hitt presented a paper co-written with Emma Crichton and Dr Jonathan Truslove of EWB UK on how the Sustainability Toolkit, Systems Change Lab, and Reimagined Degree Map can help foster a culture of changemaking in engineering education.
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