Sustainable Horizons
European sustainability in education, science and society
Until September 2022, the HWG LU was a proud partner in the EU-funded Sustainable Horizons project. The six consortium universities from all over Europe united a variety of approaches, perspectives and concepts under a common European vision of sustainability. Synergy development in education, science and society, sustainable strengthening of entrepreneurship and innovation, promotion of researchers and academics as well as respect for nature and the environment were at the heart of the efforts. The DNA of the alliance was local roots and international cooperation, the promotion of an inclusive society, the strengthening of European values and the shaping of sustainable and future-proof transformation processes.
Goals
The Sustainabes Horizons Alliance aims to serve as a reference for open educational, scientific and citizen resources by making publications, materials and research data available, thus becoming a central actor for open information in Europe.
The CO₂ reduction and development of sharing models for the sustainable transformation of campuses, measures to increase public and private investment in research and science, as well as the increase in the number of sustainability publications and the promotion of communication related to sustainability, are key cornerstones in achieving our goals.
Our contribution
The main task of the HWG LU is to establish an "Entrepreneurship and Employability Support Platform" that will increase international competitiveness, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable employability within the alliance. This is to be achieved by bundling the entrepreneurship and employability tools already used in the alliance and integrating innovative open source solutions. Another part of our work package is the organization of an "International Annual Business and Career Day" at HWG LU. The event planned for October 2023 will be held under the overarching theme of "Sustainability" and will replace the job fair this year. The focus will be on personal discussions about careers, jobs and sustainable transformation.
In addition, the HWG LU was able to recruit members for the Sustainability Sciences Horizon Observatory (SSHE). The Observatory is coordinated by the Universidad de Huelva in Spain and aims to bundle teaching formats and projects in the field of sustainability and make them accessible to all partner universities of the Alliance. Board members of the HWG LU are Kerstin Gallenstein as Head of the International Office, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Hehn-Ginsbach as Professor of Corporate Finance and Capital Market Theory and Ralf Blasek, Managing Director of the Graduate School Rhine-Neckar.
Our Board Members:
The alliance
The sustainable and collaborative transformation of the European higher education landscape is part of our self-image and so we are delighted to be able to shape the future together with our alliance partners from five different regions in Europe. The participation of each university in the individual projects of the partners is an important success factor of the project and contributes significantly to sustainable cooperation within the consortium.
- Universidad de Huelva, Spain
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- Universidade do Algarve in Faro, Portugal
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- University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" in Timișoara, Romania
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- LAB University of Applied Sciences in Lahti, Finland
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- Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
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- Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Germany
The alliance partners share a common openness to innovation, manageable student numbers, short distances between students and lecturers and close contact with the regional economy.
