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Facilitating Student Activism. Leuphana University Lüneburg World Student Environmental Summit 2013. Helen Steiniger & Alina Zalewski. Activism. efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change frequent connotation : revolt or demonstration
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Facilitating Student Activism Leuphana University Lüneburg World Student Environmental Summit 2013 Helen Steiniger & Alina Zalewski
Activism • efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change • frequentconnotation: revoltordemonstration • ourfocus: University-inducedactivism, exemplifiedbyLeupana University Lüneburg
Leuphana University LEUPHANA SEMESTER Conference Week Science makes Historyfor Reflections Science & Responsibility ProjectsSeminarsConference Disciplinary Limits of ScienceMajor Introduction Methods of ScienceInterdisciplinary and disciplinary First Week
WSES 2013 Lüneburg: Vision • empower 72 studentsfrom 28 universitiesaroundtheglobetoinitiatechangetowardssustainability – on a locallevelwith global impact • Theme: Universitiesactingforsustainability!
Project samples • University of Monterrey, Mexico: weekly intervention programme atlow income school near campus • Cairo University, Egypt and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic: 2nd Page • Keele University, UK: Run workshops on upcycling local materials in the community • University of Victoria, Canada: The Campus Community • University of Brussels, Belgium: Sustainable furniture on campus
Outlook: Relaunchof WSEN • Set up Transition Comittee • Call for Applications for Summit 2015 • Legal structure: NPO with regional sub-chapters • Follow-up on projectrealities
Outlook: WSEN Global Summit 2014 • Stellenbosch University, South Africa • 30 June to 5 July 2014 • Theme: Coming back to Life! • First summit in the global South • Vision: Incorporating a ‘developing world’ framework within the larger narrative of sustainability
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