Objectives

TREnD aims to:

• Encourage the teaching and learning of resilience and environmental democracy.
• Create innovative collaborative and immersive learning programs on Education to Sustainable Development (ESD).
• Disseminate knowledge and understanding of theories and practices of sustainability.
• Promote awareness of ecological issues.
• Foster civic participation and engagement of the youth in relevant environmental discourses.
• Strengthen sustainability by combating misinformation.

Activities

TREnD creates:

• An adaptive online staff training program that enhances academic staff's skills in collaborative and immersive learning, emphasises knowledge-sharing, and offers technical support.
• Inclusive virtual exchange modules that comprise collaborative assignments, map-making activities, and a focus on ESD.
• Adaptive, accessible, and original immersive learning experiences (virtual and augmented reality videos) based on students' digital content creation and collaborative research.

Impact

TREnD wants to:

• Enhance academic staff's skills and engagement in collaborative and immersive learning.
• Increase students' green skills and knowledge of resilience and environmental democracy.
• Improve the quality of the contents and the format of environmental education by integrating immersive technology in existing programs.
• Contribute to the EU Green Deal and SDG4 goals by fostering scalable, interdisciplinary, and immersive sustainability education models.

TREnD is a cooperation partnership between Leiden University and five other international institutions and organisations in five European countries:

1. University of Bologna, Italy [website]
2. University of Helsinki, Finland [website]
3. Media & Learning Association, Belgium [website]
4. Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, The Netherlands [website]
5. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [website]