Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Project application

Promoting Sustainable Development through education (FNE)

WHAT	A project that promotes sustainable development through education (in a broad sense) at the University of Bern. Projects can be courses or events within regular study programmes, or they can be creative and take other forms (e.g. conferences, workshop series, exhibitions, podcasts, real-world laboratories, etc).
WHO	Employees of the University of Bern The funding is specifically aimed at lecturers and mid-level staff (i.e. employees of the University of Bern, enrolled and registered doctoral students, post-doctoral and habilitation students, employees of the central administration, etc.). Bachelor’s and Master’s students are not eligible to apply.
WHEN	Project submission deadline is February 28, 2025.

The university is awarding personnel points (PPs) to participating institutions, in the framework of the Promoting SD through education project. This gives project managers time to work on conception, implementation, and evaluation of a course or event relevant to promoting sustainability.

For the purposes of this funding mechanism, an “educational event” can take any format that helps the learner acquire competences that are relevant to sustainability. The focus is on the learning and teaching of all participants. The aim – achieving Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) – goes beyond merely imparting knowledge to students. Instead, it invites all participants to take part in the knowledge process and to open up spaces for reflection and action in the field of SD. This means that the format chosen can be creative – and it should empower employees from a broad range of fields to generate a setting appropriate to the chosen format.