In this course, students will be asked to identify the most pressing sustainability issues in Tokyo. Working in small teams, they will design a new housing community that can offer solutions to the issues they have identified at the local level...
Be a force for good by participating in our Global Pillars course, “Designing the Sustainable City,” inspired by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on sustainable living, this course connects a cohort of students and...
Today, around 56% of the world's population - 4.4 billion people - live in cities. This trend is expected to continue and the urban population is expected to more than double its current size by 2050, by which time around 70% of the population will...
The main objective of this course is to understand, from a human rights perspective, the main challenges to guarantee the right to migrate and the right to asylum within growing anti-immigrants social and political contexts. From a critical...
IES Abroad's Global Pillars - Sustainable Living, Equitable Living, and Human Well-Being - Integrate most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The Global Pillars Courses utilize these pillars as a reference framework to adopt a problem...
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future” – Ban Ki-moon1.
There is a common, erroneous perception that international migration is threatening due to the sheer number of immigrants as well as the...
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future” – Ban Ki-moon.
There is a common, erroneous perception that international migration is threatening due to the sheer number of immigrants as well as the...
In this course we will take a look at the “Green City” Freiburg. The multi-faceted issues of sustainability will be presented and discussed. We will equally address environmental, economic and social sustainability. Through lectures and field trips...
The Mediterranean region, one of the oldest trading regions in the world has been described as an area of mutual economic, social and cultural exchanges. Yet this ancient trading ground is now threatened by unsustainable human pressures on fragile...