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Students combine skills from all competencies to tackle complex challenges and design integrated solutions.
This competency is about the ability to connect knowledge, skills, and perspectives; to approach complex problems systematically; and to create concrete action perspectives. It bridges understanding and action, enabling collaboration toward sustainable change.
Students learn to analyze problems, bring together multiple perspectives, and develop and implement feasible, inclusive, and just solutions. They practice embracing complexity while still taking purposeful steps forward.
Activities
To let students practice this competency, design a learning task that combines the sub-skills of the sustainability competencies. You can link several learning activities from this thematic page.
For example: have students work on a complex issue by first analyzing a problem and its underlying system using the activities Systems mapping, Crack the complexity, and Layers of why. Next, guide them toward developing concrete solutions or intervention strategies and thinking critically about possible courses of action using methods like Idea expedition, Starting with the end in mind, Seat at the table, and Decision challenge.
If you also wish to emphasize collaboration and self-awareness, you can start with Impossible task challenge and have students reflect using Self-reflection survey: collaboration reflection with the IDG framework.
Or use the Hackathon teaching activity, which offers students a unique opportunity to use their creativity and problem-solving skills on challenging assignments.
