Spotlight on Aligned Projects
ePlanet: Educational Resources on Planetary Health
The ePlanet project offers educational resources designed to integrate seamlessly into various learning contexts and formats. At its core is the ePlanet game, an interactive introduction to planetary health. Players navigate a network of interconnected challenges related to key topics, including:
- Food Systems
- Air Pollution and Heat
- Infectious Diseases
- Cross-cutting Planetary Health Issues
This engaging game helps learners explore the complex relationships between human health and the environment.
The ePlanet project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It unites 4 European medical faculties and an innovative SME. Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), University Medical Center Utrecht (the Netherlands), Ghent University (Belgium), Charité (Berlin, Germany), and Superbuff, applied gaming and digital platforms (The Hague, the Netherlands).
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GlobeLife Seminars
Organized by GlobeLife, a collaboration between Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, the Global Health Seminars provide a platform for researchers, students, and professionals to explore critical global health issues. These seminars feature expert speakers, foster interdisciplinary discussions, and promote knowledge exchange on current health challenges and solutions.
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GLOBELIFE STUDENT SECTION
In addition, GlobeLife hosts a student section, run by student representatives where they host online and in-person events for master’s and doctoral students in the field of Global Health.
Transformation Talk
Umeå Transformation Research Initiative is a network at Umeå University that promotes discussion and interdisciplinary research collaborations for sustainable transformation(s).
Stay tuned for upcoming transformation talks.
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Feeding Your Mind – a podcast on sustainable food
Feeding Your Mind increases your knowledge of sustainable food. On the menu is sounds and tastes from the future. The podcast is mostly in Swedish, but English episodes may come.
Feeding Your Mind is a podcast from the research platform SLU Future Food at SLU.
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Sustainable Health and the UN 2030 agenda
This PhD course explores the intersection of sustainable health and the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Participants gain insights into global health challenges, sustainability principles, and the role of health systems in achieving sustainable development goals. Offered by the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health at Karolinska Institutet.
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Podcast Human-Land
Human-land explores topics related to outdoor environments for health and wellbeing with experts in the field and applies an environmental psychology perspective to understand people and planetary health. Each episode is peer reviewed with the aim of supporting wider awareness and education with regards to the environmental psychology field and its application in society to solve current complex environment and health problems of our time, now and in the future.
In each episode of the podcast, international experts in their fields are invited to discuss evidence and policy on environmental psychology topics.
The podcast is produced by Amanda Gabriel at the Environmental Psychology group, within the Department of People and Society at SLU Alnarp. Together with Hanna Arnett, Amanda Gabriel co-produced the first two seasons and co-developed the overall concept of the podcast within the OHW alumni network.
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The One Health Breakfast club
The One Health Breakfast Club at SLU aims to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and strengthen One Health competence. These monthly gatherings feature a short inspirational talk, followed by informal networking and discussions. Open to all, the event encourages new ideas and potential collaborations, regardless of your background in One Health.
For those unable to attend in person at the Green Innovation Park, the lecture portion will be available via Zoom. Organised by SLU Future One Health, the Breakfast Club meets monthly.
What does the concept of One Health mean?
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A podcast on sustainability in higher education
Sustainability Talks is a Swedish-language conversation series about sustainability in higher education. Hannu Larsson, Senior Lecturer in Informatics at Örebro University, talks with teachers from various disciplines about how we can adapt working methods and content to address the major challenges of today and the future.
Sustainability Talks is produced by Örebro University and is a collaboration between the Platform for Sustainable Future (PSF), the Centre for Academic Development, and the Faculty of Business, Science and Engineering.
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