Erasmus+ BIP: Environment and Sustainable Development

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education has started the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) entitled Environment and Sustainable Development, organized by the UNESCO Chair on Teacher Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Ljubljana, in collaboration with the University of Klagenfurt, the Private University College Augustinum, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Basic Information

Detailed Programme for the BIP Week in Ljubljana (20 – 24 April 2026)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Environment and Sustainable Development: Human Drivers of Environmental Change and Global Challenges
Prof. dr. Gregor Torkar

Lecture 2: Bio-geo-chemical cycles and anthropogenic influences
Prof. dr. Iztok Devetak

Lecture 3: Teaching Nature: Exploring the Relationships between Outdoor Learning and Sustainability Education
Prof. dr. Christiana Glettler

Lecture 4: Teaching the 17 Sustainable Development Goals Through Social and Emotional Learning
Prof. dr. Evangelia Mavrikaki & Prof. dr. Myrto Koutra

Lecture 5: Sustainable Nutrition: Food for People and the Planet
Prof. dr. Stojan Kostanjevec

Lecture 6: Introductory lecture on soils
dr. Borut Vrščaj

Lecture 7: Environmental and Sustainability Education and Whole Institution Approach: Concepts and the Austrian ÖKOLOG Network
Prof. dr. Franz Rauch
– Rauch-Pfaffenwimmer-Book Green Schools- ÖKOLOG-2020
– Journal Sisyphus-Rauch-Dulle-Ecolog quantitative evaluation
– ESEinAUSTRIA-Rauch-Glettler-Steiner-Dulle-final-2024

Coffee break with foxes
mag. Črt Frelih

Lecture 8: Embedding One Health in Science Education: A Reflexive and Transdisciplinary Framework for Science Teacher Education
Prof. dr. Ulrich Hobuch et al.

Lecture 9: Promoting science through the Forests of Experiments at the Slovenian Forestry Institute
Dr. Urša Vilhar