MESPOM volunteed for the Quality Assurance exercise by the European Commission and has been selected as one of six Erasmus Mundus courses (out of about 100 existing). The purpose of the exercise is to examine how the joint character of Erasmus Mundus courses contributes to their high quality. Here are some thoughts which I prepared for the first visit of the EC QA team to Lund.

Facing the recently outlined challenges we should be exploring innovative ways to conceptualize multidisciplinary environmental education in the international context. One such perspective views the environmental arena not as a profession implying a standard set of skills and knowledge, but as a practice, focusing on ‘mind-set’ of environmental practitioners, the way they should think about environmental problems.

I ended the last entry with a question:

Will general environmental education of the type provided by MESPOM become unnecessary in the future? Will it be replaced, on the one hand, by ‘mainstreaming’ environmental knowledge into other professions, such as law, economics, engineering, medicine and on the other hand by proliferation of specialized courses in say, water resources management, climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity protection etc.?

May be.
Or may be not.