The overall objective of the REBUILT project has been to contribute towards achieving an urgent environmental turning point, by creating the REBUILT learning programme (Result 1), the REBUILT MOOC (Result 2) and the REBUILT low carbon transition action plan for businesses (Result 3). The specific objectives of the REBUILT project are: - Develop skills strategy and a low carbon transition action plan to assist businesses to adapt to climate and environmental change. - Provide necessary interdisciplinary skills relating to climate and environmental change. - Develop stand-alone courses on how businesses can combat climate emergency and transform operations. - Promote lifelong learning by facilitating take-up, validation, and recognition of the short learning courses - Raise awareness about environmental and climate-change challenges. - Reflect on opportunities for collaboration as a key part in doing business in the climate emergency. - Gather partnerships of European HEIs, research and business entities. - Support the HE sectors in becoming more inter-connected, innovative, inclusive, and digital. - Help HEIs to address societal challenges, such as climate change. - Contribute to the implementation of the UN SDGs.
The Paris Agreement aims to substantially reduce carbon emissions, thus, limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in this century, but at the current rate the world is set to fall short of this milestone. According to the European Green Deal action plan, the production and use of energy across economic sectors account for more than 75% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, there is a need for businesses to provide services or products with less harmful influence on the climate; respond to a changing policy, regulatory, and market environment; and provide new services and products. HEIs should respond to this need in a variety of ways, but there are several obstacles to address climate change in the curriculum. The interdisciplinarity of the issue poses challenges that REBUILT consortium has addressed in the project. Furthermore, to address the need to enable a profound change in peoples’ behaviour and skills, starting in the education systems and institutions as catalysts, the REBUILT project has developed flexible learning pathways and modular courses on firm adaptation to climate change and has built the competence framework required for dealing with this challenge.