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Integrating EU 1.5° Lifestyles Research into Education

2024-11-25

Research universities like Leiden University aim to integrate research into teaching, which is believed to benefit the students’ learning experiences. Naturally, some researchers, like myself, are simultaneously teachers. Research can be integrated into teaching in various ways, and what is most appropriate will differ from course to course. My course “Sustainability Analysis in Python”, which is offered to students in the MSc Industrial Ecology…

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Living a 1.5-degree Lifestyle: Emotional Resources for a Joyful Journey

2024-11-20

The EU Horizon 1.5° Lifestyles project focuses on identifying the drivers and barriers to sustainable lifestyles, defined as options that allow average global temperatures to be kept below a 1.5-degree Celsius increase as compared to pre-industrial levels. This is a goal that was established in 2015, under the Paris Agreement, signed by 194 governments. 

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Lea Becker

Research Institute for Sustainability (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam) - Coordinator
Germany

Lea Becker is a research associate at RIFS who focuses on the intersection of democracy and sustainability in her work. She pursued her studies in the Franco-German partner programme "International and European Governance," alternating annually between the University of Münster and Sciences Po Lille for her Bachelor's and Master's semesters. During her studies, she developed a growing interest in…

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Challenges

1.5° Challenges campaign has started

2024-10-29

In the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project we are inviting everyone to start changing their lifestyle so that we all become agents of change for 1.5° living. In order to support this change, among other things, we have announced a challenges campaign between October 2024 and February 2025 in seven languages in our five case countries (Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Spain and Sweden), Finland as well as at the…

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Comparison of Meal Carbon Footprints at a Festival

2024-10-21

Interest in the environmental impact and carbon footprints of food is growing in Finland. At the New Age Building Festival (Uuden ajan rakentamisen festivaali or URF), held in Kerava, Finland, from July 26 to August 7, 2024, D-mat calculated the carbon footprints of all meals sold. Alongside vegetarian dishes, fish dishes were also available. The festival’s food vendors offered a wide variety of…

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Good Future Morning Coffee event on October 1, 2024

Good Future Morning Coffee event

2024-10-21

On October 1, 2024, the SISU consortium hosted the "Good Future Morning Coffee," a thought-provoking event focused on sustainable lifestyles and the essential changes needed in our mindset and societal frameworks. Professor Arto O. Salonen led the conversation, featuring insights from Jukka Kajan (Pro Vege ry), and Michael Lettenmeier (EU 1.5 Lifestyles project).

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INCITE-DEM

News from INCITE-DEM sister project

2024-10-20

Our sister project, the EU-funded ‘INCITE-DEM : Citizens Reinventing Democracy’ aims at enhancing inclusive participation and civic engagement, while expanding democratic innovation and dynamic feedback mechanisms between citizens and institutional actors in Europe. Based on high quality research, the project will experiment with inclusive design processes for democratic innovation in practice by…

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Climate CAMPAIGNers

News from our sister project - Climate CAMPAIGNers

2024-10-20

Our sister project, Climate CAMPAIGNers, has come to an end, but its impact continues thanks to a new exploitation strategy developed by the Energy Institute at JKU Linz and SB Konzept GmbH. The app will continue to serve as a tool for motivating and monitoring climate-neutral behaviours, and its scope will be expanded to reach a broader community of users, including companies and educational…

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