Project data

Project name:	Thuringia teaches and learns sustainably
Running time:	04/2024-12/2027
Funding code:
Project organiser:
Project management:	Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Prof Dr Frank Pothen
Employee:	Arvind Prakash, M.Eng.
Project partners/consortium:	Consortium: Bauhaus University Weimar Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena University of Applied Sciences Erfurt Friedrich Schiller University Jena Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences Ilmenau University of Technology
Funding amount:	2,500,000 euros
Third-party donors:	Carl Zeiss Foundation

Summary of the project

ThüLeNa is aimed at both students and teachers. Low-threshold teaching materials on the topic of sustainability are created and teachers at the participating universities are trained in the area of education for sustainable development. With this comprehensive strategy, the project is helping to make engineering education in Thuringia more attractive in the long term.

Goals:

1. Strengthening transformative competences: To enable students to understand the societal challenges described in the SDGs and assess the role of technologies in addressing them.
2. Anchoring integrative perspectives: Students should be enabled to analyse problems holistically and develop solutions in inter- and transdisciplinary working environments.
3. Promotion of teaching innovations in engineering education: Lecturers at the participating universities are to be enabled to create teaching-learning arrangements that promote education for sustainable development in engineering degree programmes.

Realisation:

1. Development and anchoring of digital sustainability modules in the engineering degree programmes of the participating universities
2. Establishment of a ThüLeNa certificate as a cross-university micro degree
3. Creation of a pool of material on basic sustainability issues
4. Development and implementation of qualification programmes for education for sustainable development in university teaching