Newsletter
Newsletter #6
We’re thrilled to bring you the most recent updates and developments in our ongoing journey toward a more sustainable and eco-conscious future. In this edition, we delve into exciting initiatives, inspiring stories, and impactful strides taken within our community. In this issue you can find the following articles:
- Exploring the transformative power of the Active8-Planet project
- Active8-Planet experiencing the power of isolation at WWNA Conference
- Active8-Planet in pictures
- Active8-Planet in the Land of the Thunder Dragon
- Reflecting with Active8 Students
- Learning Cycle Learnings
- Plan of action for a community garden on VU campus
Newsletter #5
We’re thrilled to announce our latest issue of our newsletter! This edition brings together insightful interviews, thought-provoking articles, and inspiring stories from the world of sustainability and academia. Here’s what’s in store:
- Innovating in Academia: Tips & Tricks: Delve into strategies for creating and sustaining innovation within the academic world.
- Idealizing Leadership Prevents Sustainable Development (Interview with Edina Doci): A candid conversation with Edina Doci about the role of leadership in sustainable development.
- Collaborative Success: Vrije Universiteit Organizations Unite for a Captivating Green Event: A look into a successful green event organized by multiple organizations from Vrije Universiteit.
- Advancing Towards a Circular Building Economy: Exploring the Potential of Urban Mining: Unearth the opportunities within urban mining and its potential for a circular building economy.
- Swedish Journey: Active8-Planet Adventure in Picturesque Salzburg: Follow our Swedish team’s journey to Salzburg for the Active8-Planet project, filled with beautiful sites and cultural insights.
Newsletter #4
The moment we’ve all been waiting is here – the 4th issue of Active8-Planet newsletter is out!
In the first article you can read about the Active8-Planet card game, a board game that was designed and produced in our project. It is a fun game with a deeper message – we all need to activate ourselves, become a PLANETEER and help save the planet! It is a quick and easy-to-learn game that provides not only fun for your family and friends, but also educate about sustainability and our planet.
In the interview with Giulia Sinatti you can read about designing a new Master’s Track based on the Experience in Active8-Planet. You can find out more about Senior Teaching Qualification (STQ), reluctance among students to sign up for anthropology, collaboration with stakeholders, connection to the EPIC conference etc.
If you want to know if anthropologists and engineers can work together, then the interview with Robert Podlipnik from the company Endava is the one to read. And by the way, it was written by Anuša Babuder, one of the students from the first Active8-Planet learning cycle.
If you’re still not convinced about the role of anthropologists in our world, then you must read the article Why The World Needs Anthropologists: From a question mark to an exclamation point. It provides with some background information about the WWNA movement that has begun almost a decade ago.
If you are reading this sitting in your office, wishing you could be traveling somewhere, you can join Active8-Planet on the journey to the Land of the Thunder Dragon, otherwise known as the Kingdom of Bhutan. Two members of the Active8-Planet that also work on another Erasmus Plus project have presented the aim of our project in the only carbon-neutral country in the world! Check the photo-story from our trip.
And last, but not least, the Belgium team presents their new Active8-Planet challenge – how can ‘Urban Mining’ promote circularity. Don’t know what Urban Mining is? Even more reasons to read the article.
Newsletter #3
In our third Active8-Planet Newsletter, you can read an article about our first Active8-Event that was held in Ljubljana. We were really excited to finally meet other Planeteers!
If you want to know what poetry and beauty have to do with sustainability, read the interview with Griet Verbeeck, educator and researcher who is strongly interested in guiding people, students and professionals in the building sector towards more sustainable choices.
In her interview, Tina Krašovic shares her experience about participation in the Active8-Planet – how she learned about interdisciplinary teamwork and applied side of anthropology.
What is the process to create characters that have soul? Monika Klobčar, digital illustrator from Ljubljana, shares her process to creating characters for our project.
If you’re interested in the difference between human and ecological ecosystems, read the article written by Soesja van Wijgerden.
Last but not least, you can read an article by Josine Bakkes, facilitator at Active-Event and her main 3 take-outs from the event.
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Newsletter #2
We are extremely excited to share with you the news that our 2nd Active8-Planet newsletter is out! In this issue, you can read about newly defined challenges that our 7+1 teams will tackle during the first Active8-Planet Learning Cycle, the concept of Servant Leadership & Active8-Planet + Servant Leadership Principles, the deep motivation of three of our project members on why they joined the project and one of our member’s view on biodiversity.
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Newsletter #1
We are excited to share with you our first Active8-Planet newsletter! In this first issue, you can discover how two anthropologists and people-centred enthusiasts, Ellen Bal and Dan Podjed, understand the planet-centred development approach and how this plays and important role in the Active8-Planet project. If you are interested in autonomous future mobilities, you shouldn’t miss the article by Vaike Fors about the long-lasting collaboration between researchers from Halmstad University and developers at Volvo cars. If you want to know more about a new higher education transformation that is happening at EU policy level, then you must read our interview with Joerg Niehoff, who is the policy coordinator for University-Business cooperation at the European Commission. And last but not least, Evy Puelinckx discusses the Active8-Planet Matrix, which might guide the way towards ethical and sustainable research and development.
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