Designing Climate-Ready Education for the Next Generation of Professionals

The University of Waterloo’s Climate Institute is hosting a National Forum “Designing Climate-Ready Education for the Next Generation of Professionals”. This forum will explore what knowledge and skills students need most, and how we can teach in ways that cultivate hope, agency, and purposeful learning.

Across four days, we’re offering a series of events you can join as your schedule allows, all aimed at advancing our shared efforts to integrate climate education in professional degree programs - including accounting, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and engineering.

This forum is part of the Accelerating Climate Education for the Next Generation of Professionals (ACE) project and supported by Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Adaptation Program.

As a participant you will engage with experts, researchers, instructors, program specialists and professional bodies from across Canada.  

Participants will:  

• Gain insights on key climate action competencies needed by professional engineers, planners, accountants, architects and landscape architects.  
• Hear directly from colleagues in post-secondary institutions across Canada about how they are integrating climate change into their courses.  
• Share insights for meaningful and authentic climate education to prepare the next generation of professionals for work in a changing climate.  
• Build professional networks of people and organisations working to advance climate and sustainability education in post-secondary institutions. 

This virtual forum will focus on programs in:  

• Accounting  
• Architecture  
• Landscape Architecture 
• Planning  
• Engineering