Competence Centre in Sustainability (CCD)
The Competence Centre in Sustainability drives and supports the implementation of measures and strategies to accelerate the ecological and social transition within UNIL and society at large.
Overview
Thanks to a team with interdisciplinary profiles and the development of innovative methodologies and tools, the Competence Centre in Sustainability (CCD) aims to strengthen sustainability education and encourage interdisciplinary research to accelerate the ecological transition, while developing closer synergies with partners in the field (public administrations, companies, associations, etc.). As a department of the Rectorate, it supports the development, implementation and monitoring of the results of UNIL's transition strategy: CAP2037.
The CCD has three divisions (Research, Education and Societal Relations), which produce knowledge and develop skills that meet the needs of the UNIL community and societal partners.
Research division
The role of the Research division is to strengthen UNIL's research community on transition issues.
- It encourages and promotes interdisciplinary research on sustainability through ambitious programmes such as STRIVE, events and joint publications.
- It helps to map the sustainability research community at UNIL and supports the various interdisciplinary centres, platforms and observatories working on these issues.
- It is also interested in research conditions, with reflections on the commitment of researchers.
- It helps to promote and disseminate knowledge within society (publications, events, etc.).
Education division
The Education division's role is to educate the entire UNIL community in sustainability.
- It supports Faculties and lecturers in transforming curricula and courses and is working to develop a resource centre specifically for teaching sustainability.
- It supports the development of student associatiion activities.
- It contributes to raising awareness and educating the UNIL community on aspects of campus operations, as part of the UNIL transition strategy.
The Education division also works closely with the schools in the canton.
Societal Relations division
The Societal Relations division's role is to enhance the co-production of knowledge and skills on the ecological transition that are useful to actors in the field.
- It encourages and promotes partnership research (action research) on sustainability through programmes such as Volteface and Possible Futures.
- It mobilises UNIL's in-house knowledge and skills to meet the needs of sustainability actors.
- It supports the development of a range of continuing education courses for actors in the field.
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