4.1 Teaching 4 Teaching and Research Projects AMPHIDURABLES: A CYCLE OF INTER-UNIVERSITY CONFERENCES ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY Within the framework of a project supported by the ARES Sustainable Development Commission, ULiège has joined forces with the French-speaking universities and colleges of Belgium to set up a series of inter-university conferences on sustainable development. Through this sharing dynamic, the higher education institutions of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation want to facilitate the understanding of societal issues related to the transition towards a more sustainable world, and mobilise their communities. The AmphiDurables project aims to reach out to the general public and the younger generation, and to highlight research from universities represented in these fields. Since the beginning of the project, 7 major conferences have been shared with renowned personalities, such as Laurence Tubiana, Rob Hopkins and Benoit Greindl. The lectures are available online on the AmphiDurables project website. FIND OUT MORE CLIMACTES: A SUMMER SCHOOL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Since 2021, the non-profit organisation ACTES has been organising a summer university at ULiège specifically aimed at the creation of social entrepreneurship projects in connection with the ecological and solidarity-based transition. In 2022, the 45 participants benefited from the experience of renowned professors through 18 courses divided into 12 themes covering finance, education, mobility, food, reforestation, renewable energies, solar energy, the circular economy and housing. Aiming to help participants turn ideas into action, the course promotes exchanges with professionals who are experts in the topics taught, and leads to the development of projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the 2022 edition, 8 projects were presented by the participants in various fields, such as eco-mobility, culture, sustainable agriculture, eco-consumption and energy. FIND OUT MORE A MOOC TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CLIMATE AND ITS WARMING A new MOOC to understand how the climate works and how it is warming has been developed by the Geography Department and CARE Digital Tools. Organised in 5 sequences, this course provides the basics of how the climate works before looking at the causes and consequences of global warming in an interdisciplinary way. It benefits from the recognised expertise of ULiège researchers, including Sébastien Doutreloup, Xavier Fettweis, François Gemenne and Guénaël Devillet, as well as from the intervention of Valérie Masson Delmotte, co-chair of the first IPCC working group, and Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, IPCC vice-president from 2008 to 2015. To help students visualise how the climate works, the course uses an interactive 3D model of the atmosphere developed by SIGLab@HEC. The first session of the MOOC, which began on 14th February 2022, attracted an average of 1,700 learners per sequence, of whom 897 successfully completed the course, with a total of more than 11,000 registered. The MOOC is open to a large Frenchspeaking public thanks to the FUN platform and is integrated into several undergraduate courses at ULiège. The next session is scheduled for February 2023. FIND OUT MORE Outside of the classroom, MOOCs, summer schools and lecture series are important vehicles, among others, to mobilise our students and engage them in the transition. 24 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022 25 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022
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