Anticipated Project outcomes:
- developing courses (including distance learning and electronic courses), which will combine best Ukrainian and US practices;
- conducting summer schools and study tours for exchanging students;
- conducting series of online seminars and conferences;
- as the result of collaborative project in Sustainable Development students, faculties and researches will gain new knowledge, methodology, instruments, math-methods, technologies and educational innovations;
- multi-disciplinary Fulbright scholars and university faculties’ collaborative SD-research efforts will encourage proper institutional design for environmentally sound development and sustainable economic restructuring, and human capacity building.
The main anticipated Project impact:
- democratization of students’ mindset targeted to resolving future global problems of Sustainable Development;
- elaborating students’ reflection as they will act as the future economic agents of transformation of Ukrainian social institutions under conditions of Global Sustainable Development Paradigm change;
- educating Ukrainian Sustainable Development-oriented engineers to assist Ukrainian industries and businesses in transforming toward sustainability by using science, engineering, innovation, and education to drive technology, its application, decision-making and human resource development to positively impact the environment, customer value, quality of life, and the business bottom line;
- producing a new human capital with Sustainable Development way of thinking that will be able to meet needs of democratic society with a market economy.