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21st Century Climate-Smart Forestry Education for Livelihood and Sustainability Closing Seminar in South Africa
Forestry Educators' Ethics
“Forestry educators have a responsibility to train students to manage land for both current and future generations.
We pledge to practice pedagogies that will develop knowledge and skills in our students to maintain the long-term capacity of the land to provide the variety of materials, uses, and values desired by landowners and society."
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Romi Rancken
Lead, Climate-Smart Forestry Team, HAMK
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Project news
2024: Designing Sustainable Recycling Solutions for Climate Resilience
The Tshwane Challenge on City Greening has started in ernest at the Tshwane campus of TUT featuring the City of Tshwane and Fibre Circle as challenge owners. The challenge is attended by graduate students from TUT and Univen supported by mentors from TUT, Univen and UMP. This challenge looks at pollution and waste management opportunities in the built environment of Tshwane Metro.
October 2024
About FOREST21
FOREST21 is a joint project for strengthening capacity in South African higher education in forestry. The project is implemented in collaboration of five higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa that have forestry curricula or will start teaching forestry.
Promoting climate-smart forestry and entrepreneurial innovativeness in forestry education will lead to job creation as well as mitigation of climate change. FOREST21 is implemented through reforming the curricula in forestry entrepreneurship education to equip graduates with problem-solving skills, an entrepreneurial mindset and climate-smart thinking.
Problem-based learning (PBL) methods and students-centred teaching are the core of the project. Students learn through solving real-life business challenges in the field in international teams. FOREST21 is built on close collaboration with the industrial sector as well as teachers and the managerial staff in partner HEIs to find the practices in the local context.
FOREST21 is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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