CTCON, together with Universities in Denmark, which is leading the project, Finland and Norway, will launch a project to develop activities to promote capacity building and awareness of the UN's sustainable development challenges. The project will address the relationship between the built environment and the 17 Global Goals that have been set as the focus of the building sector's development in this century. The overall objective is to equip students, teachers and construction workers with greater knowledge in sustainability, improving the awareness and interdisciplinarity of the workforces that are modernising the sector and to do so with an international perspective, using innovative learning methods, and with a greater weight of the digital environment.
The role of the Construction Technology Centre is to include the vision of the important industry sector it represents and to enable it to benefit from the project results and applications not only in universities but also in business. The project involves Professionshojskolen University College of Nordjylland in Denmark (SUSTAINABUILD Coordinator), Satakunnan Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy in Finland, Hogeschool PXL University in Belgium and CTCON and will last for three years (2022-2024).
The development of green sectoral competences and future-oriented curricula are essential to prepare students, teachers and professionals to become real agents of change. It should be remembered that the construction sector is responsible for 40% of energy use, one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and has one of the largest waste streams generated in the EU.
The SUSTAINABUILD project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, which aims to promote the educational mobility of individuals and groups, both students and staff, as well as cooperation, quality, inclusion and equity, excellence, creativity and innovation at organisational and policy level through lifelong learning, educational, professional and personal development of individuals in the fields of education and training, youth and sport, within Europe and beyond.
