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Table 3 Short and long-term practices proposed by the students
Teaching
Short-term
practices
Students involvement with sustainable practices
Link disciplines to the local reality
Solidary student hazing
Lectures that promote awareness
Awareness and information campaigns
Actions with the students to help the community
Partnership with NGOs for trainees of students assisting
people in social vulnerability
Disseminate sustainability among groups in class
Encourage with awards for innovations in sustainability
Each graduating student to plant a tree that will bear his
name
Work sustainability as a compulsory subject
Long-term
practices
Make sustainability a transversal theme
Theme inclusion in curriculum
Create calendar with sustainable actions
Bring the students to a semester contest of ideas
focused on sustainability
Research
Short-term
practices
Encourage students to research-action on the topic
Long-term
practices
Develop more applicable research on the subject and
encourage teachers and students to apply it
Projects implementation based on research results
Encourage sustainability research
Create a stamp to reward applied sustainable projects
Offer to the market sustainability research projects,
focusing on waste treatment, for example
Community counseling and social guidance to help
with development
Establish contacts with institutions to promote
sustainability actions
Outreach
Short-term
practices
Partnership with government
Urban projects
Unite government and waste collectors
Promote a local forum for sustainability debate
Events focused on sustainability
Initiate the discussion of ideas in primary and
secondary schools (public and private)
Structure the inclusion of the sustainability theme in
HEI courses
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