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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

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Science and technology diplomacy are essential skills for navigating a complex, interconnected world. This article explores how the CARE–KNOW–DO framework helps educators and young people develop the values, knowledge, and actions needed to shape global solutions and tackle pressing challenges, from climate change to AI governance.

Category: Education & Development

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

From synthetic polymers to recycling and up-cycling.
Category: History & The Arts

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

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This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of the poor and advocate for a particular approach to development, namely adaptive management. The course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently.
Category: Leadership & Management

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

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What harm can microplastics cause to human health and can they get into our food? Joanna Jesionkowska, a research student at The Open University, looks into this here.

Category: Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?

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Dr David Assinder takes a look ahead at the next 50 years and explores the changes to our oceans. 
Category: Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

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What affects the atmospheric and ocean flows? This
free course, Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows, explores the mechanisms that are
important; the most rapid carrier is the wind. The basic principle of global
atmospheric circulation is simple: warm air rises and cold air sinks. How does
this principle affect the atmosphere and flow of water in practical terms? Starting
with an iconic environmental icon, the polar bear, you will learn how global
flows of water, heat and pollution are affecting the Arctic region and changing
our world.
Category: Nature & Environment

Nature matters: systems thinking and experts

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This free course, Nature matters: systems thinking and experts, explores conceptual tools for assisting our thinking and deliberation on what matters. The notion of 'framing' nature is introduced and three readings provide an understanding of systems thinking for explicitly framing issues of environmental responsibility.
Category: Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

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Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment is a free course. It begins with an introduction to water and goes on to briefly outline the major sources of water pollution (these being sewage works, manufacturing and industrial plants, the farming and animal husbandry sectors, landfill sites and urban surface water run-off). It considers the major water pollutants and describes the effects they have on water.
Category: Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

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What is ecology and why is it important to our understanding of the world around us? This free course, Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems, looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore the effect that humans are having on the environment.
Category: Environmental Studies

Managing coastal environments

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Coastal environments are by their nature ever-changing. This free course, Managing coastal environments, looks at the example of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, England, describing how the current state of the estuary came to be. It examines the contests and conflicts that centre on the estuary in terms of managing the environment for human needs and the needs of the other species who make their habitat there.
Category: Environmental Studies

Plastics in our ocean

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Test your knowledge about plastics in our oceans, and learn about how they impact the environment by clicking on the image below...

Category: Chemistry
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