UNU-FLORES-Challenge
UNU-FLORES-Challenge
- SDG 2 – Kein Hunger
- Challenge
- 3 ECTS
- 90 h
- Blended-Learning – Service Learning
- kostenlos
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Das wirst Du lernen
UNU-FLORES-Challenge is a technology-promoting service-learning project related to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger). Contributing to SDG-Campus, it is conjointly supported by UNU-FLORES and operates under the service-learning module praxiSDG in methodological and organizational terms. Participants are committing themselves to sustainability efforts of UNU-FLORES, learning to act as change agents in programme design, strategy or operative activities (service). Eager to leaving meaningful handprints, participants will design their individual projects in a collaborative way, including precisely formulated project goals for self-determined, sustainability-related action. This enables participants not only to learn about the significance of volunteerism, but also to evaluate and reflect on its opportunities and risks vis-à-vis their individual study contexts (learning).Damit wirst Du Dich beschäftigen
UNU-FLORES-Challenge addresses:
Food Security and Sustainability: The challenge examines the role of sustainable farming in achieving SDG-2, asking how farming practices can ensure food security without depleting environmental resources or exacerbating social inequalities.
Sustainable Agriculture Practices: This inquiry focuses on the sustainability of current agricultural practices and their effectiveness in providing long-term food access, particularly in regions with varying socio-economic conditions.
UNU-FLORES-Challenge aims at:
- Defining Sustainable Farming: What constitutes sustainable farming, and how does it differ from organic farming?
- Comparative Analysis: Evaluating environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable versus organic farming.
- Contextual Sustainability: How sustainable farming practices can adapt to various socio-economic conditions, particularly in the Global South.
- Food Security and Climate Resilience: Exploring the role of sustainable farming in addressing global food security amidst climate challenges.
By accomplishing UNU-FLORES-Challenge you will be able to:
- Conduct a comprehensive literature review to understand sustainable farming practices and their diverse impacts;
- Compare and contrast sustainable farming with organic farming, examining the distinctions and overlaps;
- Investigate how sustainable farming can be contextually defined based on socio-economic and climate realities, particularly in vulnerable regions like the Global South.
Moreover, you will be liaising with colleagues of UNU-FLORES for considering potential career opportunities.
So ist Dein Kurs aufgebaut
Participants may apply freely for the UNU-FLORES-Challenge; there is no pre-selection of participants according to their academic disciplines or study semesters. Registration takes place on a first-come, first-serve basis. Thanks to a blended-learning set-up consisting of both in-person and online sessions, it is open to participants of several universities as part of SDG-Campus. For the winter 2024 term, please make sure to be available for the following scheduled sessions:
- 1kick-off (obligatory): 21 October 2024, 16:30-19:45, in person (Dresden)
- issue pitch (obligatory): 11 November 2024, 16:30-19:45, in person, preferably (Dresden)
- consultation (optional): 02 December 2024, 16:30-19:45, digital (virtual)
- teaser pitch (obligatory): 13 January 2025, 16:30-19:45, digital (virtual)
- presentations (obligatory): 03 February 2025, 16:30-19:45, in person (venue tbd)
- upload e-portfolio: 02 March 2025
Interested? Energized? Decided? Please join, register and sign in before 20 October 2024 under: https://tud.link/wttp!
So lernst Du
This challenge is designed as term-based blended-learning opportunity. You are going to engage with a thrilling UNU-FLORES project in proactive, self-determined and experiential way in a predefined scope. It includes four classroom-learning sessions and optional e-tutoring/consultation, and will be facilitated by learning coaches to support interdisciplinary learning.
The course concludes with a reflective e-portfolio and comprises a workload equivalent to 3 ECTS.
