Green Gown Awards 2021: Tomorrow's Employees - University of Gloucestershire - Highly Commended

Radical Sustainability 

Radical Sustainability is a unique approach to education/industry partnerships, driven by the need to accelerate sustainability learning through collaboration. Kick-started by University of Gloucestershire and Interface, it uses their cutting-edge sustainability insight and sustainability education methodology, to meet professional development needs for all tomorrow’s employees: Current students – rapid professional learning for students via industry-led course experiences that build skills for change - over 350 students involved in the initial competition;  Current professionals – building expertise of professionals and academics with fresh insights into business transformation and triple bottom line change –100 people involved in year 1.

Since its 2019 launchpad, Radical Sustainability has triggered a wave of collaboration that is speeding up learning for us all, as we adapt to the pandemic and move to recreate our professional worlds for green recovery. The past year has seen innovative developments in these partnerships, plus creation of an online bitesize resource to open this learning to any student wherever they are.

Top 3 learnings:

1. Cross-sector partnerships driven by common purpose are dynamic and successful.
2. Assessed sustainability learning has huge impact compared to optional experiences.
3. We are all tomorrow’s employees and mutual sustainability learning is richer for us all.