The present proposal titled “Environmental framework for a sustainable Europe (enviEU)” will explore aspects such as its subtitle shows “How are European directives affecting the environmental technologies?” The environment includes a great variety of fields to be analysed, which have been organized in this proposal in six topics: environmental impact assessment, water, energy, air quality, environmental noise, and waste.
The objective of the proposal is to make the EU environmental policy known by means of introduction of innovative teaching methodologies based on information and technology tools, raising of critical knowledge leading to analyse how the existing EU policies and regulations in the sphere of environmental protection affect the technologies design, development and implementation. In this regard, the project actively contributes to the promotion of EU Union studies in non-EU related fields, producing a great impact on the target group at an international level.
The targets of this initiative are primarily students of Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Environmental Sciences. They have competences to solve technical problems; however most of them are unconscious about the importance of EU regulatory framework in their works. The rest of the students of the UGR and society will invited to participate to create a multidisciplinary working group. The academic course start with an initial lecture to introduce some EU legal concepts.
Throughout the course, each topic will be developed during a complete day (once in six weeks approximately). In the morning two teaching activities with a total duration of 2 hours each will be carried out by the person in charge and, during the afternoon the project coordination will organize a public event for the audience.To increase the student’s knowledge of some of the 6 topics, a summer course with 14 hours of duration will be carried out every summer. At least two events have been planned for each summer course.