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Teaching
In the area of teaching, the initiative has focused on promoting and designing new programmes related to planetary wellbeing.
At the undergraduate level, UPF is committed to introducing the SDGs in existing curricula. To this end, in the 2020-2021 academic year, it carried out the pilot project ‘Working on the SDGs through the PBL and PjBL (problem-based and project-based learning) methodology’ in 15 undergraduate degree courses. It plans to extend this pilot project to 30 more university courses in the 2021-2022 academic year. At the postgraduate level, the existing offer has been expanded with the creation of a new interuniversity master’s degree programme in Public Health, the first of its kind with this focus. Finally, it is designing nine specialized courses (in minor or MOOC format) related to planetary wellbeing
Master’s degree programmes
Master’s degree in Planetary Health
The master’s degree in Planetary Health, jointly designed by UPF, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and ISGlobal, is the first programme in the world with this focus. The programme, which will be launched online in October 2021, aims to provide interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary training to professionals from different fields of knowledge to enable them to analyse the risks that the global environmental and climate crisis poses for human health, assess the potential impact thereof, and propose adaptation and mitigation solutions.
Master’s degree in Public Health
The main aim of the master’s degree programme in Public Health, jointly offered by UPF and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), is to train students to understand health/disease processes and their determinants from a populational perspective and to address health problems through collective interventions to promote, protect and restore health.
Master’s degree in Migration Studies
The master’s degree programme in Migration Studies aims to train researchers in the field of migration and diversity governance. The programme’s main focuses are political science, the Mediterranean, and qualitative research, and it offers two tracks: a research track and an expert track.
Master’s degree in International Studies on Media, Power and Difference
The programme analyses the role of the media in constructing, representing and recognizing the difference and the diversity of the most vulnerable groups, through a cross-cutting, critical look at the power structures behind communicative practices.
Postgraduate Course in Sustainability Transition Management and Climate Emergency
This postgraduate course aims to equip you with the tools, knowledge and expertise to analyse companies’ environmental impact, design a result-oriented strategy, secure funding and develop a compelling communications plan backed by everyone involved.
Minor in Planetary Wellbeing
The minor is a supplementary form of training for UPF students, organized and carried out to enable acquisition of specific skills in a different field of knowledge from the one constituting the core of each student’s degree programme. These courses are worth between 12 and 30 credits and can be thematic, cross-disciplinary or for specific groups or programmes.
In the 2020-2021 academic year, the university worked to identify a set of significant undergraduate courses to include in the offer of a Minor in Planetary Wellbeing. The programme is scheduled to be launched in the 2021-2022 academic year.
MOOC
MOOCs (massive open online courses) aim to share and disseminate knowledge based on materials that teaching staff upload to the website and discussions about them.
In the 2020-2021 academic year, the university worked on the design of a MOOC entitled ‘Introduction to Planetary Wellbeing’, to be compulsory for all UPF undergraduate students and open to the general public.
The pilot programme will be launched in September 2021 and will have five parts:
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Module 0: Introduction
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Module 1: Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Wellbeing framework
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Module 2: Climate change and sustainability
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Module 3: Planetary health
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Module 4: Planetary challenges for cities
Specific courses
UPF organises and hosts the 2022 Europaeum Winter School whose main goal is to increase knowledge and understanding of the set of complex, interrelated and systemic issues affecting the wellbeing of humans, animals and the planet itself. The programme will comprise of lectures, paper presentations, debates, structured group discussions around carefully selected case-studies, as well as study visits.
There are three open sessions. The first two are led by Will Steffen, Emeritus professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society (Australian National University, Canberra) and John Elkington (World Sustainability Awardee 2021). The third, entitled “The Agency of Art”, will take place in MACBA.
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Will Steffen, "The Anthropocene: Where on Earth are we going" (22/02/2022, 10:30h)
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John Elkington, "The challenges of complexity and urgency of planetary wellbeing" (23/02/22, 10h)
To attend (in person or online) the two sessions above, fill in the form.
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The Agency of Art (24/02/2022, 16.00h) (MACBA)
To attend (in person or online) the MACBA session, check this website.
Full programme Europeaeum Winter School
UPF has launched the Barcelona Program for Interdisciplinary Studies (BaPIS) and the Barcelona International Summer School (BISS), two programmes that open up the opportunity to enjoy an internationalization experience from home. Within their framework, UPF offers several courses revolving around planetary wellbeing.
BISS offer (July 2021)
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Global justice and sustainable development, with Jordi Mir
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Law and Economics - Why should we obey?, with Lela Mélon
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Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, with Jannine Horowitz
BaPIS offer (fall 2021)
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Ethics in a Globalization and Sustainability Context, with Jannine Horowitz
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Globalization, Human Development and Sustainability: Politics and Policies in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda, with Andrea Noferini
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LGBT +: Exploring Identities and Diversity, with Arnau Roig
BaPIS offer (winter 2020)
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Activism and Defense of Animals in Catalonia, Europe and the World, with Núria Almiron and Laura Fernández
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Anthropocene - How People Are Transforming the Planet, with Marco Madella
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Circular Economy, with Lela Mélon
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Climate Emergency, Ecology and Energy Transition, with Enric Prat
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Gender-based Violence and International Protection of Human Rights, with Patsili Toledo
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The Impact Journey: (Un) Sustainability, Climate Emergency, Authentic Leadership, with Mathieu Durrande and Ester Oliveras