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L. A. Moscato et al.
Most Universities and Businesses are still evolving to innovate changes at the
accelerating pace of the current technological changes. But there are new ways to
create bridges between them, based on the mutual necessity of serving society at the
modern digital era speed. Both U&B have a common mission, stated mainly on the
SDGs. Both U&B want faster learning and adaptability. Experience has shown the
necessity of launching a proposal for a mutual learning mechanism, a bridge for a
Continuous Education project structured as an Exponential Organization. We could
name it as an “Exponential Bridge,” with its 17 lanes being the SDGs.
5 The Academic Perspective
The SDG’s framework provides many benefitting opportunities for Academia. The
main basic grounds of involvement are: Learning and Teaching; Research and Innovation. The effective involvement with 17 SDGs, and their respective 169 indicators,
in order to achieve a significant degree of accomplishment, requires acceleration
in the engagement of undergraduates, graduates, junior and senior professionals,
universities’ management, and support staff.
6 The Case of the University of São Paulo (USP)
6.1 Learning and Teaching
An important holistic step given by the University of São Paulo (USP) was the inauguration of the five-year Complexity Engineering
7 course by the Polytechnic School
(Poli), that deployed at its coastal campus of the city of Santos their Thematic Modules. They cover Services, Cities, Energy, and Sea, selected for requiring paradigms
of complexity in problem solving and the development of innovation. The Cities
module, for example, would cover topics such as Smart Cities, Basic sanitation,
and Urban Mobility, among others. In Services, there are disciplines such as Decision Support Tools, Work and Work Psychodynamics, and Education, Health, Public
Security Services. In Energy and Sea, there are disciplines such as Data Sciences
Applied to Maritime Exploration and Energy Production, Biological and Mineral
Resources of the Sea, and Maritime Operations—Port Infrastructure and Logistics.
Its major virtue is the interlinkage of the SDGs in the context of one another, and not
separately or sequentially. This approach is a paradigm for the early understanding
by the students of the comprehensive SDGs framework.
7 Jornal da USP April, 12 2018—https://jornal.usp.br/universidade/poli-apresenta-proposta-decurso-de-engenharia-da-complexidade-na-usp/.
L. A. Moscato et al.
Most Universities and Businesses are still evolving to innovate changes at the
accelerating pace of the current technological changes. But there are new ways to
create bridges between them, based on the mutual necessity of serving society at the
modern digital era speed. Both U&B have a common mission, stated mainly on the
SDGs. Both U&B want faster learning and adaptability. Experience has shown the
necessity of launching a proposal for a mutual learning mechanism, a bridge for a
Continuous Education project structured as an Exponential Organization. We could
name it as an “Exponential Bridge,” with its 17 lanes being the SDGs.
5 The Academic Perspective
The SDG’s framework provides many benefitting opportunities for Academia. The
main basic grounds of involvement are: Learning and Teaching; Research and Innovation. The effective involvement with 17 SDGs, and their respective 169 indicators,
in order to achieve a significant degree of accomplishment, requires acceleration
in the engagement of undergraduates, graduates, junior and senior professionals,
universities’ management, and support staff.
6 The Case of the University of São Paulo (USP)
6.1 Learning and Teaching
An important holistic step given by the University of São Paulo (USP) was the inauguration of the five-year Complexity Engineering
7 course by the Polytechnic School
(Poli), that deployed at its coastal campus of the city of Santos their Thematic Modules. They cover Services, Cities, Energy, and Sea, selected for requiring paradigms
of complexity in problem solving and the development of innovation. The Cities
module, for example, would cover topics such as Smart Cities, Basic sanitation,
and Urban Mobility, among others. In Services, there are disciplines such as Decision Support Tools, Work and Work Psychodynamics, and Education, Health, Public
Security Services. In Energy and Sea, there are disciplines such as Data Sciences
Applied to Maritime Exploration and Energy Production, Biological and Mineral
Resources of the Sea, and Maritime Operations—Port Infrastructure and Logistics.
Its major virtue is the interlinkage of the SDGs in the context of one another, and not
separately or sequentially. This approach is a paradigm for the early understanding
by the students of the comprehensive SDGs framework.
7 Jornal da USP April, 12 2018—https://jornal.usp.br/universidade/poli-apresenta-proposta-decurso-de-engenharia-da-complexidade-na-usp/.