27.10.2023 - SDGnexus Network offers research-based modules for winter semester 2023/2024 at JLU Giessen
In the winter semester of 2023/2024, the SDGnexus Network introduces two research-based curricula to JLU Giessen's Master Degree Programmes: Sustainable Transition and Transition Management.
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Course: Special Topics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals I
Instructors: Dr. Alicia Correra, Dr. Sarah Robinson, Dr. Christoph Funk Instruction mode: Online Language: English
Course description The course begins by comprehensively understanding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, offering historical context and its correlation with the Millennium Development Goals. It further delves into the measurement of sustainable development using country-level indicators, encompassing the technical steps and various data required. Next, the course introduces the nexus approach, expanding beyond individual SDGs to identify crucial context-specific linkages. It explores interconnections, trade-offs, and synergies, with real-world evaluation and implementation cases complementing this learning section. Furthermore, the course examines SDG trade-offs within food systems, specifically focusing on the livestock sector. It assesses livestock production systems using life-cycle methodologies, emphasizing environmental efficiency. The discussion is then broadened to encompass multiple sustainability dimensions, prompting the exploration of effective evaluation approaches across different scales. The syllabus of the course is available here.
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Course: Sustainable Water Management
Instruction mode: Online Language: English
This course comprehensively explores the significance of water resources policy and management in sustainable development. The course delves into the complexities of water governance and management, emphasizing the interplay between social, technical, economic, and environmental factors. It addresses principles and critical aspects of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with lessons learned from the Central Asia region. The course also examines the challenges of water security and the role of water diplomacy in transboundary water management. Additionally, the course examines water management strategies under uncertainty induced by climate change. It analyzes the interconnectedness of water-related SDGs, identifying synergies and trade-offs to develop integrated approaches for achieving multiple sustainable development objectives. The course will provide critical insights into contemporary water issues on a global scale with illustrations from different regions of the world. The socio-technical water management, transboundary water issues, SDGs, and water diplomacy issues. The students will be equipped with knowledge of the most up-to-date instruments, and methodologies. The syllabus of the course is available here. |
About the Master Degree Program Sustainable Transition
The study program focuses on understanding agricultural and food systems' development and transition processes. Food systems are at the heart of many SDGs. Furthermore, the set-up of the Master Program Sustainable Transition contributes to achieving the SDGs by offering students worldwide the opportunity to obtain a Master degree without the need to be present in Giessen. Hence, it offers inclusive higher education and explicitly implements inclusive didactic scenarios. For this reason, courses are realized by a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous elements and by using several different educational technologies.
For more information on the course curriculum and the application procedure, please visit: https://www.jlu-digitalcampus.de/about/msc-sustainable-transition