This Bootcamp will provide you with new skills, knowledge, and a holistic understanding of climate literacy, as highly valued assets in the Net-Zero era. Sessions are guided by the UN Sustainability Development Goals (UNSDGs) as you apply the learning process.
Birmingham City University‘s Skills Bootcamps are intensive short-term training courses that provide you with an invaluable opportunity to gain sought-after, sector-specific skills as part of the government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee to help everyone gain skills for life.
The UK government is committed to decarbonise and become net-zero by 2050. This means there is an urgent need across all industry sectors for employees with an understanding of sustainable strategies and how to apply them in real work contexts. With the rapid shift required to meet the zero-carbon agenda, design professionals with the requisite skills, knowledge and climate literacy are highly valued by employers.
The course will provide solid grounding in the central tenets of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals combined with established design processes by the Design Council, as you develop leadership skills in Climate Literacy including:
- Introduction to Climate literacy
- Systems thinking for sustainable change
- Sustainable cities: infrastructures and systems
- Circular economy principles
- Sustainable materials and Carbon footprinting
- Design for biodiversity and healthy green spaces
- Net Zero, low carbon, and the whole carbon life cycle
- Social and environmental justice
- Leading sustainable change
The course has been designed by leading academics, delivering a theory-based series of nine day-long sessions, spread over 14 weeks.
Seminars and presentations delivered by renowned experts at the Birmingham City University campus alongside offsite visits to businesses and organisations delivering the best sustainable practices across the city. There will be guided learning to help you apply the latest strategies, information, and processes to develop an environmental and sustainable plan applicable to your own working environment.
Please note that use of a laptop will be required.
The course start date is 24 January 2025, and will consist of 8 day-long sessions over 14 weeks.
The teaching days are Friday and Saturday beginning on 24/25 January 2025, with subsequent sessions being held on 14/15 February 2025, 7/8 March 2025, and 28/29 March 2025.
