Climate and Sustainability Leadership Edinburgh Award

Empowering you to become a leader in climate and sustainability action by providing you with knowledge and skills.

What is the Climate and Sustainability Leadership Edinburgh Award?

Student at graduation holding Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal 13 card

The purpose of the Award is to support you to take positive climate and sustainable actions in your everyday life and future career.

You will be provided with an introduction to change management, critical thinking, sustainable leadership and systems thinking. The programme will also signpost opportunities to improve your understanding of climate change, social justice and intersectionality.

This is an extra-curricular programme and is open to all students.

The total time commitment for students is 30 hours throughout the full academic year. This includes training sessions, self-directed individual learning and reflection.

On completion, you will achieve the Climate and Sustainability Leadership Edinburgh Award, which will be included on your Higher Education Achievement Report.

The Climate and Sustainability Leadership Edinburgh Award is part of the University’s efforts to provide students with opportunities to critically engage with and learn about the climate crisis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Edinburgh Award

This programme was formerly known as Student Pathways.

Benefits of participation

Access to challenge-based learning, events and training
Connect with students from across the University
Develop transferable professional and personal skills
Funding opportunities for student-led projects
Hear from students, graduates and leaders about their experience of driving change
Improve knowledge of climate change and sustainability through short online courses
Join a supportive community of like-minded students
Official recognition for professional development.

Structure of the programme

Introduction and Change Management
Critical Thinking
Sustainable Leadership
Systems Thinking
Reflection and Taking Action

Students will be able to keep in contact with each other between sessions through a Microsoft Teams channel.

Feedback from students

Over 200 students have participated in the programme since 2018 and have shared some insights about their experiences.

Given the circumstances with Covid and the lack of in person participation with my degree, it was very nice to connect with people during the sessions to discuss sustainability with some actual real people!

Helps deepen knowledge of sustainability by connecting you to a group of like-minded people.

Really liked the opportunity to actually apply my communication, organisational and team working skills in practice, and reflect on what I could improve on.

Improved my confidence about my own level of knowledge of sustainability issues and what I can individually do to make a change.

Register for the Climate and Sustainability Leadership Edinburgh Award (closed)

Once registered you will be added to the Microsoft Teams channel and details about upcoming events will be shared with you.

Registration for this academic year is now closed. The deadline was Friday, 20 October 2024.

Further information

If you have any questions about the programme or need more information, please email SRS.department@ed.ac.uk.

This article was published on 2024-10-01