10 November 2023 – The Erasmus+ project NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning, was presented to the general public in Pamplona, on 10 November 2023 by the Public University of Navarre.
Hosted by the non-profit organisation Landare at Civivox Rochapea, the informative talk was led by coordinator of the project and professor of Food Technology at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), María J. Cantalejo Díez and member of the NEMOS project, sociologist Carlos Vilches Plaza.
Starting from the important question: “Can we continue producing and consuming in such an
irresponsible way?” Cantalejo Díez and Vilches Plaza stressed how, unfortunately, sustainability is not yet an integral part of our culture or
our habits. Highlighting that sustainability goes well beyond the environmental aspect to embrace also the economic and social elements, they urged to rethink the educational and social model in which we are immersed as a society.
And this is precisely the aim of the NEMOS project, devoted to integrate sustainability competences throughout the student’s learning path by means of service-learning, which entails a direct and valuable engagement of students with the society and its challenges.
About Landare
Landare is a non-profit organisation of consumers of ecological products. It advocates for social and local transformation, promoting ways of consumption and production that are sustainable, fair, distributive (non-cumulative) and collaborative.
About the NEMOS Project
The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.
More information at www.nemosproject.com
