Every sector will be affected by the upcoming consequences of the ecological crises. In spite of this statement, most of the students graduate without having learnt any of the basic skills to tackle the ecological transition. As students, it is impossible to take action if we are not properly aware of what is at stake. Moreover, lacking the adequate tools may prevent us from leading this transition. In a word, university syllabus is a much more powerful way to lever up the ecological transition.  

At the Ecological Awakening movement, we have been working for two years to better integrate the ecological stakes in university syllabus. We aim not only at mobilizing authorities, universities, and students (see our various interventions in the timeline below), but also at creating new educational content on this topic.

• We, as students, have nowadays many levers to get our institutions to move towards more sustainability. To make sure that the much needed transformations are on the way, we can gather, think, warn and share to shake things up.. We also have to support and help our institutions in their ecological transition. This is the reason why the Ecological Awakening collective created the Education for an ecological transition platform. This platform will help students to find tools on how to encourage and support their universities’ change.

• The Ecological Awakening collective launched the Great Barometer, a survey enquiring links between Higher Education and ecology in order to rally our institutions and give them the incentive to act, so this allows us to have a clear picture of what has been claimed and done so far.