Over three weeks, learning goes far beyond the classroom. Through real-world engagement, expert interaction, and guided reflection, students develop the skills, mindset, and knowledge needed to navigate a complex and changing world:
✔︎ Cognitive: Thinking in systems, critically and analytically; learning through inquiry and curiosity; generating ideas and solving complex problems.
✔︎ Teamwork: Active listening, collaboration, conflict management, persuasion, presentation skills, empathy, inclusion, and respect.
✔︎ Personal: Developing a strong sense of self, reflection and gratitude, perspective growth, identifying strengths, exploring future careers, building confidence, and taking meaningful action.
Students explore global issues such as:
✔︎ Providing Sustainable Energy: Through visits to a solar panel start-up, a nuclear power plant, and an energy distributor, students examine the complexity, trade-offs, and solutions involved in bringing sustainable energy to urban environments.
✔︎ Art to Ignite a Movement: In the Swiss Alps, students combine science and art to explore how climate change is impacting mountain ecosystems. They hear from scientists, artists, filmmakers, and musicians about how to inspire change at a deeper level. Through reflection on their own values and inner transitions, students culminate their learning by contributing to a public mural in a Swiss village.
✔︎ Understanding Circular Economies: Students explore the challenges and opportunities of moving toward circular systems by learning from companies such as Freitag and Patagonia, the vegan start-up Planted in Zurich, and APAG CoCyst, an automotive electronics manufacturer for BMW and Porsche in the Czech Republic.
✔︎ Innovative Solutions for the Future: Students engage with cutting-edge organisations already tackling climate challenges and apply design-thinking skills in a hands-on “Designathon” to develop solutions to real sustainability problems.
