Studia Generalia: Competency-based sustainability transformations

The Sustainability Transformation Doctoral Education Pilot (SusTra) offers open Studia Generalia lectures in autumn 2025. The best experts in the field offer the lecture series, tackling the pressing sustainability challenges we face. These 14 online lectures will provide impactful insights into creating a sustainable life and society across various domains, including work, business, leadership, administration, legislation, social imagination, well-being, and education.
These Studia Generalia lectures are based on an open Sopuli PhD course organised by SusTra Doctoral Education Pilot, a collaboration of 10 universities and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, www.uef.fi/sustra

• Osallistu luennolle tästä: https://uef.zoom.us/j/64857640310

Thu 23.10. Ilkka Ratinen, University of Lapland: Competency-based sustainability transformations

• Theme of the lecture: The development of a sustainable society fundamentally constitutes a learning process. This lecture will critically examine the sustainability through the lens of systemic leverage points, highlighting where targeted learning and intervention can generate the most transformative change.
• Ilkka Ratinen is professor of outdoor and environmental education at University of Lapland.

Further information

Responsible course leader: Professor Arto O. Salonen, UEF 

Course coordination: Research manager Meri Löyttyniemi, UEF