Synergies Event
Ensuring long-term existence of student initiatives
Friday, 2. December | University of Basel
Kollegiengebäude, Petersplatz 1
This event is dedicated to the question of how student initiatives for sustainable development can be sustained over a longer period of time. It will address questions like
Participation is free of charge, food and drinks will be provided.
Languages: E/D/F
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- what are successful models of sustainability oriented student project support structures or activities?
- how can students be motivated to develop their own project?
- how to design student initiatives with long term ambitions?
- Student project incubators and student projects that aim to further develop their initiatives once the sd-universities funding ends (or has already ended)
- Members of universities, universities of applied science and universities of teacher education that plan to develop a student project support platform and submit a proposal with in the new funding programme Nachhaltige Entwicklung an Schweizer Hochschulen - Studierendenprojekte
- Other student initiatives and institutions dedicated to facilitate, foster and finance student projects
Participation is free of charge, food and drinks will be provided.
Languages: E/D/F
Download programme (pdf)
Programme
9:30 Coffee and inscription
10:00 Welcome note and introduction (incl. short overview on new funding programme)
10:15 Inputs of student project incubators, focusing on their goals, organisational structures and on how they
approached and supported the students
Intermittent: short 2’ presentations of supported projects
11:15 Approaches to effectively reach students, and to support and foster student projects
Discussion based on the experiences of project incubators and supported projects
11:40 Exploring promising models for student project support platforms including collaboration among
universities, universities of applied science and universities of teacher education
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Presentations of student initiatives, focusing on approaches to sustain them
14:15 Continuity vs. innovation, structure vs. flexibility: Challenges for student initiatives with long-term ambition
Workshop, 2 rounds; coffee break between rounds
- Finding members, succession and hand over
- Funding (including short input on innovative fundraising – tbc)
15:35 Working together with existing bodies/institutions/structures or building up own
bodies/institutions/structures?
Discussion
16:05 Closing remarks
16:15 End
This event is organised by the Sustainable Development at Universities Programme in cooperation with the University of Basel, and is supported by the Mercator Foundation Switzerland.