The first session of a pilot brand-new course called "Sustainable change-makers Program" was launched in October 2022. Some Academic Chairs and Leads of the Circle U. WP4 "Student led sustainable innovation" combined their different areas of expertise to offer this unique and original online program.
Mid-December was UCLouvain the scene for two days of the final event of this program. The changemakers presented their final projects in front of an international jury and recorded a testimonial video of their learning process with the support of experts from the Louvain Learning Lab. In the Mons campus of UCLouvain, the changemakers also had the opportunity to meet startups at the Mind & Market Conference and help local entrepreneurs solving sustainability challenges through a creative 'brain bar session'.
Change-makers
The Circlular Heroines Group
Final project "Circle Food": a digital platform to connect restaurants with wholesalers improving food waste habits for partners and providing advice on how to decrease food waste.
The Sustainable Ambassadors Group
Final project: An interactive prepacked sustainable curriculum for sustainable week at primary schools.
The RevEnergy Group
Final project: a course to help people change their habits in the context of the climate urgency.
The GoGreen Group
Final project "Cooltent": a proper food storage solution to reduce food losses.
The Golden Seeds Group
Final project "FoodBuddy": an App that helps people minimize and use up what would have been otherwise considered as intended for the compost or the landfill.
The Sustainable Change-Makers Programme 2022
- 30 students from a wide variety of faculties (Healthcare, Philosophy, Environmental Science, International Development, Civil Engineering, Management, law, anthropology, ...) and universities (UCLouvain, University of Belgrade, University of Oslo, Aarhus University, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, Université Paris Cité, King's College London) discovered and explored different facets of sustainable innovation;
- They worked for 11 weeks in international and multidisciplinary teams;
- Using critical thinking and flipped classroom method and utilizing a wide range of techniques, concepts and models to identify and critically evaluate sustainable innovation issues within various environments;
- They developed at the end of the program a concrete micro-project linked to one/several Sustainable Development Goals and came up with innovation solutions applying competitive strategies and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Contact
- Prof. Amélie Jacquemin, UCLouvain
amelie.jacquemin@uclouvain.be
