Courses to learn about sustainability
Academic Year 2025-26. The Master's Degree Programme CIVIS - Transdisciplinary Studies of Climate, Environment, and Energy TRACEE
Sapienza participates in the master’s degree course organized by CIVIS Transdisciplinary Studies of Climate, Environment, and Energy (TRACEE), a pioneering project to train tomorrow's leaders in the fight against climate change, energy transition and environmental crisis management.
The course provides students with the fundamental tools to understand the complexity of climate, energy and environmental systems.
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Academic Year 2024-25 - Sustainability science for all
For the 2024-2025 academic year, Sapienza offers all students an inter-faculty free choice course (in Italian), which will be held in the second semester on Moodle
e-learning platform. The course grants 6 CFU, made up of three modules of 2 CFU each, with one compulsory module.
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Academic Year 2024-25 - Sustainability Sciences in Engineering
For the Academic Year 2024-25, Sapienza offers the new edition of the course, in Italian, Scienze della sostenibilità in ingegneria (Sustainability Sciences in Engineering), open to all students. The course comprises 6 disciplines with different lecturers.
This is an optional, interfaculty free-choice course and can therefore be chosen by those enrolled in any degre programmes, but it must be included in their study plan.
Free-choice courses aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs of the UN 2030 Agenda)
- Social planning for sustainability, innovation, and gender inclusion (in Italian)
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Other programmes aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs of the UN 2030 Agenda)
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Previous courses
Academic Year 2023-24 - Training Course, in Italian, in Sustainability Sciences: Cultural, Ecological and Digital Transition
The course in Sustainability Sciences: Cultural, Ecological and Digital Transition is open to all and is free of charge for all Sapienza students. The course is divided into two parts: the first with lectures by the Faculty Deans delivered for all those enrolled in the course; the second part requires the student to choose two packages from those proposed by the Faculties. At the end of the course, 6CFU will be recognised within the “Other educational activities” and a certificate of attendance will be issued.
Academic Year 2022-23 - Training Course, in Italian, in Sustainability Sciences: cultural, ecological and digital transition
The course in Sustainability Sciences: Cultural, Ecological and Digital Transition, aimed at exploring the concept of sustainability from a trans-disciplinary perspective, is open to all and is free of charge for all Sapienza students. At the end of the course, 6CFU will be recognised within the “Other educational activities”.
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Course Programm (in Italian)
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Course Presentation (pdf in Italian).
Academic Year 2021-22 - Training course in Sustainability Sciences
During the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year, Sapienza proposed the in-person and online training course in Sustainability Sciences open to Sapienza students, secondary school students and public administration employees.
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Academic Year 2020-2021- Training course in Sustainability Sciences
Starting from the 2020-21 academic year, all our students, enrolled in any degree programme, can follow an inter-faculty course on Sustainability Sciences. The course aims to introduce sustainability as an element of cultural progress in society and to deepen the possible applications of sustainable models in different disciplinary fields.
Students can choose to attend only the basic course, which allows the acquisition of 3 credits, or they can choose to attend the basic course plus a specific course for the acquisition of additional 3 credits (6 credits altogether).
Each Faculty organises the specific courses autonomously, with the contribution of all Sapienza professors.
The course can also be attended by external users, e.g. company employees, as a university training course.
Academic Year 2022-23 - Free-choice course on Sustainability in Engineering
In the second semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, Sapienza University of Rome is offering the free-choice, inter-faculty course in Sustainability Science in Engineering; it is optional, open to students of all Faculties and grants 6 credits (CFU).
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Academic Year 2021-22 - Free-choice course on Sustainability in Engineering
Starting from the 2020-21 academic year, a new optional 6-credit interfaculty free-choice course with 6 different subjects and 6 different professors (one for each credit), entitled "Sustainability sciences in engineering", will be organised.
Lectures will be delivered during the first semester of year 1 of the Degree in Environmental and Industrial Engineering (Latina branch) L-7 L-9, but can be chosen by students of all Faculties interested in the subject.
The lectures will be held in-person and online at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Rome branch. Modalities and lesson timetables will be communicated on the Degree Programme's website.
School Year 2021-22- Engineering for Sustainable Development at School
The Educational Board of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza - Latina Branch organised a cultural project aimed at secondary school students, preferably in year 4 and 5 (seventeen and eighteen years old), entitled "Engineering for Sustainable Development at School".
Six conferences were hold from February to April 2022, one every fortnight, related to some of the UN 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
