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HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT 2023
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How can the education system become an effective driving force for a more sustainable future?
The 2023 Higher Education Summit aimed to explore how we can foster collective transformative learning and integrate it into higher education to make it future-proof.
A COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
IN HIGHER EDUCATION
How can the education system become an effective driving force for a more sustainable future? To address current and future challenges, the present mono-disciplinary educational system needs to change to tackle and navigate the complexity of sustainability challenges. This not only affects both educators and students (and other stakeholders), but also requires their proactive engagement. Preparing for the future entails a paradigm shift towards a more learner-driven education, which means that not only students, but also teachers and other educational and societal stakeholders learn by closely collaborating – a real Copernican Revolution in Higher Education. Putting the mindset of all these learners into the center of education implies adding a new dimension to long established roles and pedagogies, and challenging the current structures in place.
INTERNATIONAL
3-DAY ONLINE SUMMIT
The 2023 Higher Education Summit – Student Takeover was organized by the COPERNICUS Alliance and oikos International, supported by SOS – Students Organizing for Sustainability International, the Green Office Movement, and the Club of Rome.
The 3-day virtual conference took place from 23-25 November 2023. It brought together different audiences involving students, educators and changemakers in the field of transformative learning for sustainable development within higher education. The interactive program included different formats such as keynotes, workshops, and spaces for informal exchange among participants.

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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
The 2023 Higher Education Summit explored how collective and/or collaborative learning spaces can foster and nurture transformative learning and integrate it into higher education. Such a learning environment is expected to increase active trans-formative learning for all (teachers and collaborating societal actors included), which is why it is also relevant and unavoidable to shed light on current assessment practices in Collaborative Learning Spaces, alternative evaluation methods, learner-driven credit systems, etc.
Envisaging a Copernican Revolution for a sustainable future, we raised the question: "How can we foster collective transformative learning and structurally inte-grate it into higher education to make it future-proof?"
oikos ACADEMY
The 2023 Higher Education Summit marked the highlight of a full month of transforming education, which put students at the center, fostering a learner-driven drive in this transformation. The oikos Academy started on 22 October 2023 and involved several onsite events with local oikos chapters.
It is a change lab that brings together students, professors, university management and additional stakeholders in higher education.

Watch short video highlights from the oikos Academy:
"Go for it!" and "A Learning Adventure"

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ORGANIZERS & CONTACT
The 2023 HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT is organized by
the COPERNICUS Alliance and oikos International, supported by SOS – Students Organizing for Sustainability International, the Green Office Movement, and the Club of Rome.

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