Title:	LEARNING OF SOLVING SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING STUDIES
Author(s):	Anne-Marie Tuomala
ISBN:	978-989-8704-46-7
Editors:	Piet Kommers, Tomayess Issa, Adriana Backx Noronha Viana, Theodora Issa and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2022
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Sustainability Challenge, Sustainability Education, Virtual Studies
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	77
Last Page:	84
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The study summarizes the green project management digital teaching and learning methodology and achievements so far, which are integrated and generated in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels in environmental engineering study programs of the LAB University of Applied Sciences (LAB), Finland. It is important to share the experiences internationally. The paper introduces the theoretical green management methods, which serves as a framework for the practical implementation in the sustainability challenges' courses. The practical implementation takes places in project form, where the companies and public bodies have the role of the sustainability challenges' commissioners. The commissioning organizations define the sustainability challenges for the students. The data collection for the study started in the spring 2019 and now, in the third year, it is time to report about the mid-term results of the study. The study has been carried out as an in-depth, multi-method case study collecting data from the students and commissioners and in oral and written form. The study introduces four project courses as practical implementation cases. The results give material and guidance for the further development of green project management studies. So far very few scientific papers report about the practical implementation of project form teaching and learning in green project management sphere in technology studies. The originality of the introduced concept is based on the originality of the regional strategy, LAB's role in the regional development system and own innovative ways to carry out problem and project based learning. The relevance of the topic area is increasing as the ability to act as a sustainability maker is becoming as a norm, soon not to be "a special agent's work" solely. The main limitation of the study is the uniqueness of each project case and the amount of the gathered project cases so far.
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