From social to economic aspects via environment and health: sustainability is now a subject studied in all its dimensions through a plurality of disciplinary perspectives. This is the new and unique educational project that the University of Milan-Bicocca is providing to its students thanks to Bbetween, the courses aimed at increasing and enhancing cross-curricular skills.
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030, Bbetween Sustainability accompanies and complements the training provided by individual courses of study. As part of the free-choice training credits provided for three-year and single-cycle degree programmes, students will be able to include Sustainable Development teaching and to define its content themselves, choosing from those proposed by the 37 modules into which the project is divided.
Bbetween Sustainability features contributions from all of the university’s departments, offering content, approaches and language from different fields. This will enable participants to explore the topics that most closely align with their own sensibilities and interests by building the program that most closely matches their personal education process. Each of the project’s modules comprises 12 hours of activities. Passing the final test will result in a digital certification (Open Badge).
In view of the strategic importance of sustainability issues, the teaching project is also open to university staff.
“Milan-Bicocca’s multidisciplinary vocation,” comments Rector Giovanna Iannantuoni, “is fundamental to guaranteeing education that fosters the wide-ranging knowledge and skills necessary to face the challenges posed by complexity. Sustainability is one such challenge, which is decisive for our future. With Bbetween Sustainability, we offer our students the opportunity to acquire skills that are not only useful in any professional field, but also fundamental to being informed citizens.”