Open Climate Campaign
In this lesson, we connect the dots between the open education approach to shared knowledge and shared solutions with the needs highlighted by the European priorities and consider the Sustainable Development Goals that all UNESCO nations signed to achieve by 2030. We are not limiting our focus to SDG 4, Quality Education for All, because plenty of resources specifically address it, including one of our Polimi Open Knowledge MOOCs. We are pointing out how open education at large, the open licences, and the open practices can contribute to all SDGs, by igniting vital collaborative projects and disseminating research results to speed up the process. As usual, let’s focus on a specific example of how openly licenced resources and open processes can support the global community to address key priorities we need to face together: we are going to look into the Open Climate Campaign.
WHAT?
- Title: Open Climate Campaign.
- Description: The Open Climate Campaign aims to promote open access to research to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. These global challenges need all the knowledge available (research, data, educational resources, software) to be open so that it can be easily reused by anyone who can contribute viable solutions.
WHY?
- It brings attention to the issue of access to knowledge on a specific challenge which solution can be beneficial for all: climate change.
- It helps understand why overcoming legal and policy barriers to sharing knowledge and allowing access and reuse is key for researchers to progress faster on urgent matters.
- Because it looks at Open Education as part of the Open movement and connects the areas that can make a difference when working jointly with multiple perspectives.
- While recognising the immense value of traditional Higher Education Institutions and mainstream science, the challenges society faces now require established knowledge forms to integrate with other knowledge sources to meet them better and support all individuals and groups as equitably as possible.
- The transdisciplinary dialogue across different ways of knowing can lead to transformative learning by generating knowledge in complementary ways. Open licenses facilitate the swift and potent sharing of knowledge across boundaries, silos, and diverse perspectives.
CC LICENCE
- CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License), except where otherwise noted.
- Permissions: Freely accessible, reusable, and repurposable with proper attribution.