About the Conference
The international and interdisciplinary conference “Growing up the Future: Education for Sustainability” (GROUFES 2026) invites researchers, lecturers, teachers, and students to contribute to a focused discussion on how education can respond to pressing global sustainability challenges.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, digitalisation, migration, demographic shifts, and social inequality are reshaping our societies and our education systems. GROUFES 2026 provides a platform to examine how education can equip learners with the knowledge, competences, and values needed for sustainable futures, while also rethinking educational practice itself.
The conference is open to participants worldwide and particularly welcomes members of the EU GREEN Alliance. The conference language is English.
Conference Themes
This conference offers the following panel discussions:
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What do we know and think about sustainability?
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How can we transform and imagine both university teaching and living on the campus for the future?
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How can Ecofiction and Ecocritique develop and enrichen pedagogic strategies in teacher training programs? And can they be a new paradigm in teacher training?
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How can we transform and imagine both university teaching and living on the campus for the future?
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What does it mean to live and to teach in a postmigrant and inclusive society?
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How can teacher training programs be designed to foster social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability and awareness?
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How can we learn to live in a multispecies community?
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How can we bring different generations together in education for sustainability?
- How can we realise ESD at universities / in society: Talk about good/best-practices
