For the third edition of the EUPeace Teaching Europe Conference, we invite educators, researchers, and students to explore how we can Teach Europe as a blueprint for sustainability. A society that is truly atuned and alert to problems and questions of sustainability needs its citizens to both conceive themselves and to act as active agents of sustainability. This, in turn, calls for new and ever more effective ways of teaching sustainability that empower citizens with solid understandings of sustainability across a variety of academic, scientific and professional fields.

The primary focus of this conference is not on questions of sustainability as understood from a strictly scientific perspective, but rather on theories and methodologies of communication and education: how do experts communicate and impart their academic and scientific findings in ways that are both scientifically sound and accessible to non-experts?

Effective and broad-based sustainability education — at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and beyond — has never been more important. It is one of the most vital means we have ot equipping our citizens with the ability and confidence properly to navigate the interconnected challenges of peace, justice, ecological coexistence, and sustainable development in its myriad dimensions. Our sustainable futures depend on it.

It’s against that backdrop that the EUPeace Alliance invites educators, researchers and students to consider both the differences and the overlaps between what we teach regarding “sustainability” and how we teach it. In so doing, we want to examine how we might best equip our students and societies citizens with robust and multifaceted understandings of sustainability. By bringing together researchers from all fields of academia and teachers from all levels of education, one core objective of this Teaching Europe Conference will be the co-construction of a Blueprint for Teaching a Sustainable Europe.

Participants are invited to submit proposals within the following broad thematic areas:

• Climate science
• Biodiversity conservation
• Renewable energy
• Circular economy
• Waste management and reduction
• Role of AI, IoT (“Internet of Things”), and Big Data in achieving green goals
• “One Health”: human health and Earth health
• Environmental footprints of different professional practices
• Eco-anxiety
• Integrating aesthetics, sustainability, and social inclusion in design
• Inclusive public spaces and climate-adaptive buildings
• Sustainable practices in preserving and re-purposing historical spaces
• International, European, national and local legal regulations and economic frameworks for a sustainable Europe
• Sustainable management and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Sustainable innovation and green entrepreneurship
• How to teach each of the many complex facets of social sustainability: e.g., peacebuilding, strategies for establishing and maintaining social cohesion, the protection of human rights, democratic resilience, Memory Politics & Conflict Transformation, reconciliation, intercultural dialogue, etc.

We also welcome talks and posters discussing sustainability education from the point of view of its implementation and management within higher education. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

• Good practices in embedding the Sustainable Development Goals across diverse study programmes;
• Measuring learning outcomes related to critical thinking and future-oriented skills.
• Whole-Institution Approach to Scaling ESD from the classroom to university governance and campus management.
• University-Society Interface (Community Engagement): Establishing collaboration with local authorities, industry, and civil society on sustainable development projects, engaging citizens and the local community in research processes (Citizen Science)

Format and Submission Guidelines:

The conference will feature various formats fostering dialogue among scholars, teachers, students and policymakers:

• Keynote lectures
• Panel discussions
• Round-tables
• Poster session

Papers can address the various topics mentioned above from different methodological and disciplinary perspectives.

Abstract Submission: Besides your registration below, please also submit an abstract (300–500 words) outlining your research and its relevance to the conference themes and approaches. Please observe the following abstract guidelines:

• Word document (.doc or .docx)
• Title
• Authors
• 300-500 words max (including spaces, excluding references)
• 5 keywords max
• 5 references max

Please indicate your preferred presentation format (panel, round-table, poster). You can find the redirection to the upload platform on the right side under “Extended abstract submission”.