The registration for the course Higher Education Didactics for Sustainability (HEDS) Spring 2026 is now open!
Open to: Educators or pedagogical developers in higher education
Scope: The course is equivalent to 80 hours full-time work, approx. 6 hours/ week, mostly as online collaborative groupwork
Dates: 19 January-29 April 2026
Place: Online
Registration and more information: HEDS until 8 December (notification of acceptance on December 22nd)
Course fee: No fee!
The course covers topics like competencies for sustainability, pedagogical approaches, and the role of the university in transforming to a sustainable world, and based on input on those topics, the main focus is on online collaborative group work with colleagues from all over the world.
This is the third year that the initiative “Teaching for Sustainability” is involved in HEDS, last year Terese co-led the topic “connecting with the world and each other”. You can watch a recording of the session here, including a presentation by Marlis Wullenkord, Environmental Psychologist at Lund University, about eco-emotions and coping strategies in educational settings (we are summarising a different presentation of hers here).
Feedback from participants in previous years is that while this course is very intense, it also offers a supportive community, inspiring exchange of experiences, and deep, transformative conversations, which impact the approach to teaching for sustainability. This is also the impression that both Terese and Mirjam have gotten through their involvement. If you are an earlier participant, you can still (until November 6th) volunteer to contribute as facilitator or co-facilitator here.
If you have questions about the course, please contact terese.thoni@cec.lu.se
