Training
UNIL is helping to train future players in the ecological transition, through its range of courses, its continuing education programmes and its collaboration with schools in the canton.
Course
To be able to make an active contribution to society's ecological transformation requires solid skills in terms of sustainability. UNIL is therefore strongly committed to ensuring that every student is able to acquire these key skills throughout his or her course of study.
UNIL is committed to ensuring that every student is able to acquire the necessary skills throughout their course of study so that they can make their contribution to technological transformation:
- Specific Master's Degree in Sustainability
The Faculty of Science and Environment has been offering the Master's Degree in Foundations and Practices of Sustainability since 2015. - Master's degree in sustainability
The Faculty of Advanced Business Studies, in association with EPFL and IMD, offers the Master's degree in Sustainable Management and Technology. - Updated training pathways
- Since the start of the 2023 academic year, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine's School of Medicine has been offering all students of medicine a education enabling them to acquire fundamental knowledge in environmental sustainability and sustainable health, as well as the skills to learn about these issues in their future medical practice.
- Since 2023, the Faculty of Graduate Business Studies has been offering introductory teaching in sustainability during the first two years of the degree course.
Continuing education
In order to support the various local players in the ecological and social transformation, UNIL is organising a number of continuing education modules:
- Donut model: a tool for the ecological transition of territories
- CAS Environmental and ecological transition policies
- CAS Tourism, Innovation and Sustainability
- MOOC Political ecology: the challenge of sustainability for democracies
- CAS Éthics, Health and the Environment
- Certificate of Advanced Studies in Climate Change Law and Litigation
Projects in progress
Competence Centre in Sustainability (CDD) has compiled a list of all the courses and seminars on sustainability offered at UNIL. The complete list for the 2023-2024 academic year can be found here.
A methodological document sets out the approach used to identify and categorise courses as having sustainability as their main or secondary subject.
Competence Centre in Sustainability (CCD), in collaboration with the Teaching Support Centre (CSE), is developing a teaching resource centre on sustainability for teaching staff.
The CCD is also helping faculties to update their training courses.
Volteface Students is an adaptation of the Volteface platform and aimed atétudiants·es de master de l’UNIL. Developed by CCD with the support of Uchange and the platform Interface, this platform gives students the opportunity to carry out research-action projects on the ecological and social transition in relation to the concrete needs of partners active in the field on campus.
The Durabilis Award UNIL-EPFL rewards student work at Bachelor's or Master's level related to sustainability carried out at UNIL or EPFL.