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UMA TALKS CLIMATE CHANGE 2022 Climate Adaptation of the Built Environment DESIGNING CYCLES AT 64°   Interior Urban Landscapes and the Water-Energy Food Nexus Climate change demands a recalibration of our built environment to become more resilient. Designing Cycles at 64° takes a multi-scalar approach addressing individual building typologies and, exemplarily for climate adaptation of northern climate zones, the city of Umeå with its diverse urban fabric as a whole. The active involvement of all stakeholders in the planning and future use of buildings and open spaces becomes key. How to create spaces that contribute to community building and social interaction while integrating a maximum of ecosystemic services is therefore a central question that demands for implementable methods, tools, processes and design solutions. At 64° latitude, interior landscapes and the water-energy-food nexus offer interesting possibilities to extend growing seasons and diversify crops, to reduce energy consumption while providing hybrid living spaces between inside and outside. By exploring greenhouse extensions and building envelopes as local passive architectural solutions, DC64° sets out to build productive interfaces between the private and public sector, academia involving the disciplines of architecture and urban planning, urban water management, plant physiology and vertical gardening, as well as the general public in a living lab format. Retrofitting the existing building stock, repurposing vacancies and expanding our building performance may accumulatively have a systemic impact both in terms of reducing water and energy consumption, as well as food miles, while buffering existing infrastructure networks and enabling local food production on site. Expanding on Bengt Warne’s Naturhus (1974) and following examples, we anticipate new multifunctional architectural models applicable in various contexts and scales. FORMAT / The program includes an introductory lecture that addresses climate urgencies and potential capacity for change in the context of the built environment the week before the one-day symposium (hybrid format). The symposium brings together practitioners, researchers and educators and consists of five thematic sessions that can be attended as a full day or individually as they are interrelated, yet also function independently (See program link below). INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES / Understanding of multi-scalar climate-adapation design approaches within the built environment with a focus on the Nordic context / Reflect on aspects of social sustainability when it comes to transforming buildings and inhabitants from being consumers to becoming producers /   Umeå University School of Architecture   Presentations   Program Nov. 30.     For any questions content-related questions please email us cornelia.redeker@umu.se sara.thor@umu.se constanze.hirt@umu.se  

Målet med kursen är att ge lärare fortbildning inom ämnet djurvälfärd och hållbarhet. Kursens mål är också att ge lärare inspiration att designa sin egen undervisning, att ge lärare möjlighet att ta till sig ny forskning och att dela med sig av läraktiviteter som kan användas av fler.

About the course:This course is a collaboration between Uppsala University and the United Nations Development Programme.  The course aims to strengthen participants' capacity to contribute actively to the fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, in a complex, ever changing, global society. It will do so by clarifying the context of the SDGs in the international community, and by addressing the needed solutions from a both human and technical approach. The course consists of three modules, which will take you around 16 hours to complete. Module 1 will provide you with a wider background context to the SDGs and the aim is that following this module you will have gained insight into how humanity is being brought together. You will have received a basic understanding of the framework of the rules-based world order, within which the SDGs are set, how they link to this framework, as well as on how progress is maintained. Module 2 will provide you with collaborative learning tools and methods of co-creation. It will provide insights on why change fails and suggest planning tools and resources to enable transition from the current state to the desired state. It will show how you can apply some of these tools to foster collaborative innovations addressing sustainability challenges. Module 3 will provide you with current-day insights into the United Nations Development Programme, the UN body that manages and follows up the progress of the SDGs. You will be introduced to practical tools used by the organization to promote SDG fulfilment, the UNDP 7-step methodology, exemplified by a special focus on e-mobility. This online course is stand-alone, but it is also given as an advanced level as a five week course awarding university credits. Target group:The course has been created for those of you who are seeking a more in-depth understanding of the background and international context of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is for those of you who want to work hands-on with sustainable development, to strengthen this capacity, and are interested in both the human and technical side of delivering solutions. Suppose you are interested in the climate agenda and the power of collaboration, as well as curious to learn more about electrification in transportation systems. In that case, this is a course for you.        

FOR WHO: The course is targeting professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of emissions from transportation, e.g. high school teachers, civil servants and politicians in public administration, engineers in the field of transport (car manufacturers, fuel production, logistics, ...) WHAT AND WHY: The purpose of the course is to provide a holistic perspective and increased knowledge in air pollution, to distinguish between climate effects and health effects, but also to provide insight into the tools to bring about social change. The climate is changing at an increasingly rapid pace and all the focus is on reducing CO2 emissions. However, our society relies heavily on energy conversions, e.g. for transport. Although some transport uses renewable (liquid) fuels, the CO2 balance is affected. Even if some transport is electrified, more CO2 emissions arise in the manufacture of, for example, batteries (and many cases of fossil-based electricity production). But transport also creates other emissions, so-called local emissions which mainly affect people and nature. As modern combustion engines emit very little air pollution, the composition changes and so-called wear particles also play a greater role in human health. Air pollution causes about 5 million premature deaths and is, after cancer, the greatest threat to human health. But local emissions also affect the climate. For example, marine transport will contribute with so-called albedo effects due to particle emissions (from internal combustion engines) and risk worsening climate change even more. This course deals with all the different aspects of air pollution from transport. WHEN AND HOW: You choose when and at what pace you want to carry out the steps. All parts of the course are free of charge. The course consists of five modules: 1.     Introduction 2.     The energy system and energy carriers 3.     Energy converters (engines) and reduction of emissions (exhaust gas treatment) 4.     Measurement and monitoring 5.     Health effects, societal aspects Each module contains several lectures and for each lecture and module there is a quiz where you can get confirmation that you have understood the most important things. Going through the entire course takes about 3–5 weeks, depending on how intensively/extensively you read. You can also choose to read parts of the course

What can we do to address the sustainability challenges we face? In this course, you will gain insight into how individuals, organisations and societies approach sustainability challenges in different ways. In various parts of the world different challenges are prioritized and thereby, various approaches and solutions are needed. You will learn about the considerations needed to make decisions of how to prioritize sustainable development. You will also be introduced to different strategies for changing values, attitudes and behaviours. The course introduces enforcements that are applied to influence individuals within companies and in the society at large, including different incentives and instruments to ensure more sustainable behaviours. This course is relevant to professionals working in industry, policymakers, or students in engineering. What you'll learn Identify and prioritize solutions based on different perspectives About how the values, attitudes and behaviours for sustainable development are connected About different environmental management tools How to implement organizational learning, incentives and instruments to change behaviours for sustainable development Concepts used in the current sustainability debate See all free online courses that KTH offers

Materials are all around us, in your house, in your phone and in the air you breathe. But what is material and why is it so important? Right now, the green transition is underway, but how do we create a more sustainable world - from raw material to product? It's all about materials. How does material feel? How are materials chosen? What are the materials of the future? Join us and discover our world of materials! The course containsIn this course we go through the basics of what materials are and why they are so important. You get to discover materials, get to know materials and be inspired by the materials of the future. The following areas are included in the course: What is material? How does material feel? How are materials chosen? How are materials recycled? What are the materials of the future? You will learnAt the end of the course you should be able to: Discover and reflect on the world and meaning of materials Get a feel for different materials Discover and analyze materials in your vicinity Understand that different materials are chosen based on the area of use Understand and reflect on the possibilities of materials and their role in the green transition Who is the course for?This is a course suitable for EVERYONE who is curious about the materials in their surroundings, regardless of background and age. The course requires no prior knowledge. It is for those of you who have an interest in a sustainable future and who wonder what role materials have in the green transition. The course is given in Swedish.

Our society must shift to sustainable production. The production systems need to be developed in line with the global goals set by the UN and that have been agreed on by the countries. Sustainable production is about producing with, preferably, positive impact, but usually at least as little negative impact as possible, on people and our planet. This three-week course introduces you to sustainable production systems and helps you understand them from economic, social and ecological perspectives. The course begins with an exposé of how production systems have developed historically. You will learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The course continues with an in-depth study of production systems, covering some prominent people and theories in the field. Next, you will learn about current developments in production innovation and Industry 4.0. You will also meet two companies in the manufacturing industry, Polarbröd and Sandvik Coromant, and see examples of how they work with sustainable production. The course concludes by giving you tools to design sustainable production systems. The course is aimed at anyone curious about sustainable production and how industrial production can be developed to become more sustainable. The course will be given in English.

How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the levels. Scandinavia, a pioneering place advancing sustainability and combating climate change, is a unique starting point for learning about greening the economy. We will learn from many initiatives attempted in Scandinavia since the 1970s, which are all potentially helpful and useful for other countries and contexts. The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is an international centre of excellence on strategies for sustainable solutions. The IIIEE is ideally suited to understand and explain the interdisciplinary issues in green economies utilising the diverse disciplinary backgrounds of its international staff. The IIIEE has been researching and teaching on sustainability and greener economies since the 1990s and it has extensive international networks connecting with a variety of organizations.

How can we shape our urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course explores sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy in Europe and around the world. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. We connect the key trends of urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability. We examine how visions, experiments and innovations can transform urban areas. And we look at practices (what is happening in cities at present) and opportunities (what are the possibilities for cities going forwards into the future). This course was launched in January 2016, and it was updated in September 2021 with new podcasts, films and publications. The course is produced by Lund University in cooperation with WWF and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability who work with creating sustainable cities. The course features researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs from a range organisations.

KursinnehållKursen syftar till att ge en introduktion och överblick av artificiell intelligens. Fokus ligger på att förstå begreppet och några viktiga tekniker som hur sökning och maskininlärning fungerar samt konsekvenser av AI på samhället.  Börja läsa när du vill Du kan börja läsa kursen i stort sett när du vill då kursen är en online-kurs med flexibel antagning. Du gör ansökan till den termin du tänker börja läsa kursen. Vill du börja direkt så ansöker du till innevarande termin, eller så väljer du den termin du tänker börja. Termin väljer du här ovan, så kommer du till rätt ansökningstillfälle. KursformatKursen är en distanskurs som görs i egen takt och hanteras i sin helhet i en web-baserad kursmiljö. Kursen baseras på självstudier av kursmaterialet och examineras med självrättande tester och inlämningar. Du som har gjort Elements of AI kan anmäla dig till den här kursen för att få dina resultat validerade. Det gäller både den svenska och den engelska versionen av kursen. Du måste inte göra om kursen, däremot måste du ladda upp certifikatet från Elements of AI och göra ett valideringstest med frågor motsvarande de som finns i Elements of AI för att säkerställa att det verkligen är du som gått igenom kursen. För mer information se denna länk. Kursen handleds över internet. Information om behörighetObservera att du vid ansökan till kursen måste kunna styrka att du har grundläggande behörighet. Om dina gymnasiemeriter inte redan finns på dina sidor på antagning.se så behöver du ladda upp gymnasieexamen, eller motsvarande, på antagning.se i samband med din ansökan.

KursinnehållKursen syftar till att ge en introduktion till praktisk AI, med fokus på grundläggande maskininlärning. Syftet är att förstå hur man kan skapa AI-system med hjälp av maskininlärning, få inblick i teknikens möjligheter och begränsningar, samt få en överblick över vanliga metoder för maskininlärning. Börja läsa när du villDu kan börja läsa kursen i stort sett när du vill då kursen är en online-kurs med flexibel antagning. Du gör ansökan till den termin du tänker börja läsa kursen. Vill du börja direkt så ansöker du till innevarande termin. Termin väljer du här ovan, så kommer du till rätt ansökningstillfälle.  KursformatKursen är en distanskurs som görs i egen takt och hanteras i sin helhet i en web-baserad kursmiljö. Kursen baseras på självstudier av kursmaterialet och examineras med självrättande tester och inlämningar. Du som har gjort Elements of AI, Part 2: Building AI kan anmäla dig till den här kursen för att få dina resultat validerade. Detta innefattar att göra ett valideringstest med frågor motsvarande de som finns i Elements of AI, Part 2: Building AI för att säkerställa att det verkligen är du som gått igenom kursen. För mer information se denna länk. Kursen handleds över internet. Information om behörighetObservera att du vid ansökan till kursen måste kunna styrka att du har grundläggande behörighet. Om dina gymnasiemeriter inte redan finns på dina sidor på antagning.se så behöver du ladda upp gymnasieexamen, eller motsvarande, på antagning.se i samband med din ansökan.

Välkommen till ett öppet och nätbaserat utbildningsmaterial som bidrar med kunskap och inspiration för att stödja yrkeslärares undervisning med Hållbar utveckling. MålgruppVerksamma yrkeslärare och yrkeslärarstudenter. InnehållUtbildningsmaterialet baseras på: nationella och internationella styrdokument om Hållbar utveckling, yrkeslärares beprövade undervisningserfarenhet samt forskning om skolutveckling och yrkeslärares undervisning för alla yrkeselever Kursmaterialet ger grundläggande kunskap om Hållbar utveckling och en fördjupning i dimensionen Social hållbarhet. Avsikten är också att inspirera till programvisa skolutvecklingsarbeten genom filmer där verksamma yrkeslärare beskriver hur de arbetar med Hållbar utveckling i olika yrkesprogram. Utbildningsmaterialet består av inspelade föreläsningar som du kan ta del av i den ordning du har behov av. Om du inte tidigare arbetat med Hållbar utveckling i ditt yrkesprogram rekommenderar vi att du tar del av utbildningsmaterialet i följande ordning: Hållbar utveckling Social hållbarhet Skolutveckling Inspirationsfilmer av och för yrkeslärare Vid anmälan får du länk till material och inloggningsuppgifter. Mer information om utbildningen.  Medverkande Mari Forsberg, universitetsadjunkt, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet Robert Holmgren, lektor, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet Gerd Pettersson, lektor, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet Jenny Björkén, yrkeslärare, Hotell- och turismprogrammet, Astar, Luleå Stina Björkén, yrkeslärare, Restaurang- och livsmedelsprogrammet, Astar, Luleå Urban Burman, yrkeslärare, Fordons- och transportprogrammet, Anderstorpsskolan, Skellefteå Annette Christiansen, yrkeslärarstudent, Hantverksprogrammet frisör, Luleå Anna Renhorn Pohl, yrkeslärare, Försäljnings- och serviceprogrammet, Praktiska gymnasiet, Skellefteå