Green Gown Awards 2020 - University of Gloucestershire - Finalist

Radical Sustainability

Radical Sustainability is a unique partnership between education and industry, driven by the need to accelerate learning for sustainability through collaboration. Kick-started by University of Gloucestershire and Interface, it uses their cutting-edge sustainability practice as sector pioneers, to meet two urgent professional learning needs at once: 

Today’s employees - building the expertise of existing professionals - business leaders and academics seeing the triple bottom line imperative but needing fresh skills around innovation for whole-business transformation, with a radically new approach right now. Over 100 professionals participated so far.  

Tomorrow’s employees - rapid professional development for students - students needing industry-led educational experiences that rapidly develop their skills to apply sustainability and create change in their careers as our future sustainability leaders. Over 350 students directly involved to date.   

Since its 2019 launch, Radical Sustainability has triggered a wave of collaborative innovation that is speeding up learning for all sustainability professionals of tomorrow. 

Top 3 learnings:

1. Our partnerships across sectors but driven by common purpose are hugely dynamic and successful. 
2. Assessed sustainability learning in core courses has huge impact compared to optional experiences. 
3. Working with today’s and tomorrow’s employees in parallel enriches professional development for all. 

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