Co-Creation for Sustainability

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the purpose of training potential cocreators in the noble art of doing together what individuals cannot do alone.We extend our thanks to our editor David Mulvaney at Emerald for his support and understanding during the writing of this book. Thanks also to Head of Department Peter Kragelund, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University for comments to several chapters and support for the Golden Open Access publishing that makes the digital version of the book freely available to everyone everywhere. We also thank the Peder Sather program at the University of California, Berkeley, for project support.On a final note, we are pleased that a large research grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark will allow us to continue the work that we have initiated in this book and contribute to the growing research on how collaborative governance can support the realization of the SDGs. We are looking forward to collaborating with people all over the world to further explore the factors that may support the cocreation of the green transition.

What does it mean to be engaged? The engagement of student engineers with sustainability: a literature review

“…It provides spaces for other dimensions of learning like social and emotional, and not recognized as learning within institutional formal educational frameworks and regulations (Johnson and Majewska, 2022). Holistic and emotional responsive educational approaches are claimed to develop competencies requires to act and transform local community and society towards sustainability (Holst, 2023; Ansell et al. , 2022; Bakırlıoğlu and McMahon, 2021); therefore bridging, blending and/or intertwining activities from formal, informal and non-informal education have the potential to create learning spaces for sustainability.…”

“…Whilst intrapersonal engagement is about the individual “self”, the inter-relational engagement refers to the relationships the individual establishes with its surrounding. Therefore, one does not engage and act for sustainability in isolation, and the sense of belonging, community, educational or otherwise, is strongly emphasize as a space to co-learn, co-create and co-transform (see for example, Holst, 2023; Ansell et al. , 2022; Bakırlıoğlu and McMahon, 2021).…”

“…The articles also lack an exploration of the role played by contexts beyond that of formal education, such as non-governmental organizations, activism, volunteerism or self-organized activities (non-formal and informal education spaces and activities), fostering a more holistic student engagement for sustainability (e.g. Holst, 2023; Ansell et al. , 2022; Bakırlıoğlu and McMahon, 2021).…”