Over the last decades, the rapid effects of global change, mostly related to population growth, hectic production systems, and environmental and climate variations, have shown the paramount importance of environmental sustainability for the livelihoods of Earth’s population and should be managed as a cross-cutting priority. Particular attention should be paid to low-income contexts, where a variety of imbalance and vulnerability factors might threaten or irreversibly affect the integrity of the last remaining near-natural ecosystems.

In this framework, the UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development launched the first edition of ESIC’s, a cycle of Environmental Sustainability and International Cooperation webinars aimed at exploring, together with actors of international cooperation and researchers, key environmental challenges of international interest and possible ways forward, drawing from the state of science and from the experience of local contexts. In each webinar a specific topic will be interactively discussed: e.g., water resources, WASH, agriculture, hydrogeological risk and energy.

All the webinar records of the first edition (2020-2021) are free to watch on our YouTube page at the button below.

Rigenera Montagna is an educational initiative focused on the use of resources and the meaning of places through the perspective of younger generations. Within this framework, the Chair contributed to training activities organised with the schools involved, with particular attention to biodiversity, river morphology, water resource management, and territorial information systems, also ensuring the active participation of researchers and students.

Education to Global Citizenship is a two-week educational module addressed to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade high school students at Liceo Da Vinci in Trento. The initiative focuses on water resources management and sustainability, with the aim of raising students’ awareness of environmental challenges and encouraging a more informed and responsible approach to global citizenship.