Sweden
Uppsala University SWEDESD (Swedish International Centre for Education for Sustainable Development), has capacity to integrate capacity building, policy development and integrated and collaborative research related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Sweden and internationally (SWEDESD has working partnerships in Southern Africa, Kenya, Vietnam, Mongolia, India, Denmark, Belgium). SWEDESD’s research is focused on transformative learning in informal and formal contexts, including climate change education, learning for sustainable urban development and mainstreaming ESD in school systems and teacher education. Uppsala University has an educational technology unit that will provide support for the T-learning LAB development and media use. The lead researcher (Dr Kronlid) has a PhD in transgressive environmental ethics (Kronlid 2003), and has published widely on climate change and capabilities (2014), in which learning is seen as a key transformative capability.
Main roles and responsibilities: conceptual and theoretical leadership and development; research school development; case study development; potential policy contributions.
Main roles and responsibilities: conceptual and theoretical leadership and development; research school development; case study development; potential policy contributions.
Dr Eva Friman
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Dr Eva Friman is the Director SWEDESD. She is an economist with a PhD in intellectual history. She is director of the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development (SWEDESD), and interdisciplinary researchers based at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. She chairs Uppsala Transdisciplinary Seminar in Sustainable Development (TRUST) with Associate Professor David O. Kronlid and is member of the official Swedish delegation on ESD, planning the Swedish and international implementation of the UNESCO Global Action Programme on ESD. Her work focuses on equity and ecological sustainability from an ecological economics and political ecology framework, and lately her research has focused on global exchange, transformative and integrated learning, and climate change. She has published in Solutions (2012), The International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research (2012), The International Journal of the Commons (2011), and is published by the Swedish Research Council (2014) and Levellers Press (2012). She has contributed to, and edited several books, among them Politicized Nature: Global Exchange, Resources and Power (2010); When Sweden Changed: 25 Experts describe drivers of development (2008); Sustainable Development and Learning – Inspiration for Educators in Higher Education (2008); and The Whole World: Social and Cultural Perspective on the Environmental Crisis (2003).
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Prof. David Kronolid
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Prof. David Kronolid is an associate professor in ethics and Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies. He is research leader at the Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development (SWEDESD). He is associate professor in ethics and senior lecturer in curriculum studies at the Department of Education (EDU). He co-chairs Uppsala Transdisciplinary Seminar in Sustainable Development (TRUST) and heads the research group for education and sustainable development research at EDU. Kronlid is expert evaluator and research ethics expert for Horizon 2020 and has been working with crossdisciplinary transformative student-led higher education since 1998. His recent book on climate change adaptation and human capabilities was published 2014 on Palgrave.
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