“Evolution of Knowledge Sharing
of Education for Sustainable
Development in the Digital
Space—Insights from Two Research
Projects”
Jonas Joachims and Katharina Lingenau
1 Introduction
Society still faces a major challenge in terms of sustainable development. Numerous
UNESCO programmes and the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals
have created a great awareness of global problems. Nevertheless, there is still little
knowledge of solutions and changes in behaviour. Universities as research and educational institutions have the task of preparing society for the challenges of sustainable development and of creating knowledge with which these challenges can be
met. Besides all the complexity of this task, there are other developments that are
changing society, such as digitalization. This also confronts universities with new,
complex challenges. How sustainability and digitalization can be brought together
in university teaching, which challenges this poses to teaching and what digital ESD
can look like, will be described in the following, by example of two case studies.
2 Overview Over the Embeddedness of ESD in German
Higher Education
Since the declaration of the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in 2005, it has been a globally defined goal to anchor ESD in all areas of
education. However, ten years were not enough to establish sustainability as an integral part of education. The Decade was followed by the World Action Programme
J. Joachims (B) · K. Lingenau
Sustainable Management, University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str.1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
e-mail: joachims@uni-bremen.de
K. Lingenau
e-mail: lingenau@uni-bremen.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_24
365
of Education for Sustainable
Development in the Digital
Space—Insights from Two Research
Projects”
Jonas Joachims and Katharina Lingenau
1 Introduction
Society still faces a major challenge in terms of sustainable development. Numerous
UNESCO programmes and the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals
have created a great awareness of global problems. Nevertheless, there is still little
knowledge of solutions and changes in behaviour. Universities as research and educational institutions have the task of preparing society for the challenges of sustainable development and of creating knowledge with which these challenges can be
met. Besides all the complexity of this task, there are other developments that are
changing society, such as digitalization. This also confronts universities with new,
complex challenges. How sustainability and digitalization can be brought together
in university teaching, which challenges this poses to teaching and what digital ESD
can look like, will be described in the following, by example of two case studies.
2 Overview Over the Embeddedness of ESD in German
Higher Education
Since the declaration of the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in 2005, it has been a globally defined goal to anchor ESD in all areas of
education. However, ten years were not enough to establish sustainability as an integral part of education. The Decade was followed by the World Action Programme
J. Joachims (B) · K. Lingenau
Sustainable Management, University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str.1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
e-mail: joachims@uni-bremen.de
K. Lingenau
e-mail: lingenau@uni-bremen.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_24
365