Studia Generalia: Education for sustainability transformation

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

Mon 20.10. Hannu L.T. Heikkinen, University of Jyväskylä: Education for sustainability transformation

• Theme of the lecture: Education is the key to change our societies and ways of living towards sustainability. In this lecture, sustainability education is discussed from different perspectives, including the ideas of world-centred education of Gert Biesta and the theory of flourishing as the aim of education, represented by the neo-Aristotelian theorists, including Kristjan Kristjansson and Stephen Kemmis.
• Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is a professor of education in the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) of University of Jyväskylä. He is leading the research area of FIER, entitled “Education, belonging and sustainable society”.

Further information

Responsible course leader: Professor Arto O. Salonen, UEF 

Course coordination: Research manager Meri Löyttyniemi, UEF