31 January 2024 – Coordinator of the Erasmus+ co-funded project NEMOS, María J. Cantalejo Díez from the Public University of Navarra, was a speaker at the symposium Women for the Promotion of Sustainability in Times of Climate Change (original Spanish title: Mujeres por el Impulso de la Sostenibilidad en Tiempos de Cambio Climático). In her presentation on Sustainability as a key competence and driver of social change she highlighted some key results of the NEMOS project.
Focusing first on environmental sustainability, she described it as one of the values that should govern society and a key competence for students when it comes to face challenges such as climate change, food waste or loss, due to a general inefficiency in the use of natural resources.
As for economic and social sustainability, she stressed the important role that women can play in this regard and claimed that gender equality will be crucial for a more sustainable future.
The symposium was organized as an online event by the Teder – Tierra Estella Association on 31 January 2024 and welcomed more than 50 attendees from Spain and Latin America.
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
