Sustainability Hackathon: Integrating
Academia and Companies for Finding
Solutions for Socio-environmental
Problems
Lia Buarque de Macedo Guimarães, Rosimeire Sedrez Bitencourt,
Camilla Buttura Chrusciak, Marcia Gemari Derenevich,
Cristoffer Rodrigues Poncini, Maria Lucia Miyake Okumura,
and Osiris Canciglieri Junior
1 Introduction
Education on sustainability issues is crucial for generating awareness and changing
the behavior of the academic community, enterprises, government and society
towards a sustainable future. UNESCO has been promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) since 1992, led the UN Decade for ESD from 2005 to
2014 and since 2015 is leading and coordinating the Education 2030 Agenda. ESD
is explicitly recognized in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), as part of
L. B. de Macedo Guimarães (B)
Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering (PPGEP), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul
(UFRGS), Avenida Osvaldo Aranha 99, Porto Alegre, RS 90035090, Brazil
e-mail: liabmg@gmail.com
R. S. Bitencourt · C. B. Chrusciak · M. G. Derenevich · C. R. Poncini · M. L. M. Okumura ·
O. C. Junior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Pontifical Catholic University
of Paraná (PUCPR), Rua Imaculada Conceição 1155, Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: rosimeire.bitencourt@pucpr.br
C. B. Chrusciak
e-mail: camilla.buttura@pucpr.br
M. G. Derenevich
e-mail: marcia.gemari@pucpr.edu.br
C. R. Poncini
e-mail: cristoffer.poncini@pucpr.edu.br
M. L. M. Okumura
e-mail: luciamiyake@gmail.com
O. C. Junior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_40
591
Academia and Companies for Finding
Solutions for Socio-environmental
Problems
Lia Buarque de Macedo Guimarães, Rosimeire Sedrez Bitencourt,
Camilla Buttura Chrusciak, Marcia Gemari Derenevich,
Cristoffer Rodrigues Poncini, Maria Lucia Miyake Okumura,
and Osiris Canciglieri Junior
1 Introduction
Education on sustainability issues is crucial for generating awareness and changing
the behavior of the academic community, enterprises, government and society
towards a sustainable future. UNESCO has been promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) since 1992, led the UN Decade for ESD from 2005 to
2014 and since 2015 is leading and coordinating the Education 2030 Agenda. ESD
is explicitly recognized in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), as part of
L. B. de Macedo Guimarães (B)
Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering (PPGEP), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul
(UFRGS), Avenida Osvaldo Aranha 99, Porto Alegre, RS 90035090, Brazil
e-mail: liabmg@gmail.com
R. S. Bitencourt · C. B. Chrusciak · M. G. Derenevich · C. R. Poncini · M. L. M. Okumura ·
O. C. Junior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Pontifical Catholic University
of Paraná (PUCPR), Rua Imaculada Conceição 1155, Curitiba, PR 80215-901, Brazil
e-mail: rosimeire.bitencourt@pucpr.br
C. B. Chrusciak
e-mail: camilla.buttura@pucpr.br
M. G. Derenevich
e-mail: marcia.gemari@pucpr.edu.br
C. R. Poncini
e-mail: cristoffer.poncini@pucpr.edu.br
M. L. M. Okumura
e-mail: luciamiyake@gmail.com
O. C. Junior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_40
591