Campus bizia laba university of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)programme aimed at working towards sustainabilityvia a transdisciplinary approach based on cooperation

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Campus Bizia Lab is a University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) programme arising from theErasmus Project University Education for Sustainable Development (US4SD). It seeks to address thesustainability challenges at our university’s three campuses by means of a transdisciplinary approachinvolving students, administrative and academic staff.The programme consists of a research-action process aimed at developing a high-impact practice(HIP) on students (cross-cutting learning based on challenges concerned with sustainability) in whichlecturers act as researchers into their own practices. This HIP is curricular in nature, and is handled viafinal year projects for bachelor’s degrees (TFG) and masters’ courses (TFM).These challenges, which were defined by the Campus Bizia Lab community in a seminar, includeEnergy Transition, Circular Economy, Waste Management, Mobility and Urban Planning, Cultureand Sustainability, Responsible Production and Consumption, Healthy Eating and Education forTransformation.Campus Bizia Lab began to operate during the 2017/18 academic year, after a pilot schemeconducted the previous year. In the first edition, 178 people (84 women and 94 men) from over10 different faculties (including Engineering, Education, Science, Economics and Business and FineArts) participated in 18 projects. A second edition has recently commenced for the 2018-19 academic,in which 27 people (17 women and 10 men) from various groups working on four new projects havejoined the programme.