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At Helsinki University, efforts has been geared in recent years towards investing in increasing students’ sustainability skills and expanding the provision of sustainability education.
Project Manager, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science HELSUS, University of Helsinki, Tuija Veintie, says, “We wish to give our students the chance to obtain knowledge and skills for tackling complex global challenges.”
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Students have access to the multidisciplinary sustainability course offered by the University, and since last autumn, independent study has been a channel through which it has been implemented, ensuring the ease of the completion of the course.
Also, Una Europa University collaboration has been an avenue through which students can complete a micro-credential in Sustainability.
Helsinki University is also partaking in a sustainability studies network through which students can find courses related to Environmental Sustainability and responsibility themes not available in their home institutions.
The new course parades topics such as space sustainability, sustainability health, and sustainability education to the relationship between Chemistry and circular economy.
The courses are optional, and while some of the courses can be completed in the open university, some courses are open to all students of the University of Helsinki.
Sustainable course in art studies, introduced in late 2023 according to Professor Artor Haapala and specialist Noora Helena Korpelainen, who put the course design together, harmonizes comparative literature, aesthetics, theatre research, musicology, film and television studies, and art history to examine the sustainability issues.
According to Korpelainen, “It provides students with practical experience of working in a multidisciplinary research field and the capacity to develop a critical approach to both questions specific to their fields and sustainability issues from outside the field of art studies.”
The Sustainability Health Course has Specialists in sustainability in Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacotherapies from several faculties teamed up to contribute to the initial planning of the sustainability health course.
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