RCE Graz Styria-2010

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1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Clemens Mader
Marcus Ludescher
Organizational Affiliation : 
University of Graz
center for continuing education (at University of Graz)
Role in the project: 
Scientific Leadership
E-Mail Address(es): 
clemens.mader@uni-graz.at
vita-activa@uni-graz.at
Project-relevant information: 
Website providing detailed information:
http://www.uni-graz.at/rce/extra%20sites/methoden_nh_entwicklungsprozesse_10.htm
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Program details
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Intergenerational Workshop: Methods for Sustainable Development Processes in Regions and Business
2. Project Description: 
In this intergenerational workshop participants (students, interested people and regional actors) learn about examples of sustainable development processes in regions and businesses. The participants analyse the development processes in team-working and learn about motivations for development processes, activities and conditions of sustainable development.
The workshop is hold on four days in November 2010.
3. Project Status: 
Ongoing
4. Key Words
Other: 
Education for Sustainable Development
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Research
Awareness building
Networking and partnership development
6. Expected outcomes:: 
The participant get a deeper understandig of sustainable development in regions and economy. Due to the structure of the workshop with students and empolyed or retired participants knowledge transfer between the generations is made possible and a new method of learning and experience is practised.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
The participants develop complex systemic analyses of development process.
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Presentations and discussions are organised by the workshop leader
- Groups organise themselves
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
3
b. Transactional: 
4
c. Transformational: 
3
4. Project results
13.Core Partners: 
University of Graz, Participants, UN Global Compact Network Austria
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
4
b. Knowledge network: 
4
c. Innovation network: 
2
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
The workshop is organised and strctured by the RCE Graz-Styria. The actors are activly involved in the design of the workshop content and in the way participants work together.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
4
b. Consultation participation: 
3
c. Decision influencing participation : 
3
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
The participants learn in different methods (interactive, presentations, discussions, team-working) about:
- introduction to sustainable development (history, systematics, current developments)
- introduction to change management in business and regions
- methods for analysation of systems, netwoks and actors
- systemic analysation of development processes
- Graz model for integrative development processes for susainability
- local examples of development processes in regions, businesses, regional development and educational institutions
18. Learning activities: 
- Awareness towards sustainable development processes in regions and businesses
- capability of systemic analyses of development processes
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
3
b. Discussion: 
3
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
4
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
The participants work on regional examples of sustainable development processes and analyse these. This contributes to a further scientific research on regional sustainable development processes.
21. Research partners: 
The workshop is held at the University of Graz. Other research partners will be known when the specific development processes which are analysed are defined.
22. Description of research
a. Disciplinary: 
1
b. Interdisciplinary: 
6
c. Transdisciplinary: 
3
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Europe
Community: 
SCP,Livelihood and Well-being
Issue: 
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Country: 
Austria