Transition, Innovation and Sustainability Environments, TISE: A Showcase of Education Geared Towards Societal Challenges and Future Orientation

Dealing with Complexity and Digitalization from a Modern Communication Perspective: How Universities can become Centres for Empowerment

“…The complexities of the HuNTS, including their (digital) transformations determine a special role of education (Risopoulos-Pichler et al, 2020) that should focus on the development and implication of a systems vision of the complex HuNTS, their challenges, and potential solutions (see Mühlmann et al, 2021). Such interventions should be considered within the multidimensional impact and a synergetic prism of historical developments, present complexities, and future paths (see Satalkina, Steiner forthcoming;Steiner et al, 2013), leading to a deeper understanding of the multiplex human-nature-technology system (Satalkina et al, 2021;Satalkina, Steiner, 2020;Steiner, 2018). At the same time, the educational systems should offer sets of tools and methodologies to approach the vulnerabilities, that emerge from these.…”