The University of The Faroe Islands has been actively involved in Nordic Sustainable Campus Network’s activities since 2015, and has during this spring officially joined the NCSN. Below you’ll find the most recent sustainability events relating to sustainability education and green campuses at the university.
Coming soon: An international PhD course
As part of the Green Growth Dialogue 2017 (18-22 June), the University of the Faroe Islands offers an international PhD course in Engaged Scholarship. Do you want to be part of 10 PhD students who will present their work on sustainable food production and consumption, innovation, and science-policy-society dialogue – and be part of actual policy dialogue with public and private actors – then send us an application.
We also run the course as a Master’s course (5 ECTS ). See here for more: https://www.greengrowthdialogue.com/students/
Contact information: Lau Blaxekjær, PhD, Assistant Professor, laub (at)setur.fo
Past events: Outcomes from the Nordic Sustainable Campus Conference 2016
The final conference of the Nordic Sulitest-project was hosted by the University of the Faroe Islands. The conference, “From campus planning to learning outcomes”, discussed about Nordic experiences on sustainable campuses and explored the connections between the built environment, teaching and learning outcomes. As a special focus, the conference presented student project on sustainability and renovating an old building, “Linberg’s Hus” to become a Green Student House.
The report from the conference can be found here, and it has also been published has been published in the original conference page. A detailed plan on Linberg’s hus by Evan Alexander here.
