30 March 2023 – The NEMOS project’s state of play and steps forward were discussed at the 3rd transnational meeting of NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning, that took place on 28-29 March 2023 at the Technische Universität Graz (Austria).
The meeting gathered representatives from all the partners in the NEMOS consortium, who shared good practices on how to use service-learning as a pedagogy to integrate sustainability in food-related degrees. Each university involved in the project shared their experiences of working with the local community to enhance the sustainability mindset of students and provide possible solutions to existing local challenges.
On this basis, the partners consolidated the contents and structure of the NEMOS Methodological Handbook. Aimed at providing a general framework of guidance to adopt service-learning as a tool for strengthening the sustainability competences of students, the Methodological Handbook will also include examples and best practices implemented in the different university contexts concerned.
The meeting also offered the opportunity for the consortium to plan for the next project milestone: the creation of assessment tools that will be used to validate the NEMOS Food Sustainability Profile (which identifies the sustainability competences that students should develop throughout their academic path) and the Methodological Handbook.
This evaluation phase will ultimately lead to the development of a new educational model for the acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning, to be disseminated for implementation by further universities.
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
