Integrated Sustainability 
Minor a.y. 2022/2023

What is a Minor

A Minor is a complementary path to a Bachelor’s Degree Programme which allows you to broaden your main study field by developing cross-cutting skills that are useful both for your further education and for your career.

A Minor is composed of three modules of 6 ECTS each. By passing the three Minor exams; you will get a certification and an Open badge.

Objectives and contents

The unsustainability of current development models is the key element to understanding the reality that surrounds us and the profound crisis facing the entire planet. We are called upon to overhaul our 'lifestyles' both individually and collectively, in order to respond to the unprecedented challenges we face, first and foremost climate change.  To do so, we must also revise the concept of sustainability, no longer distinguishable in the three classic compartments (environmental, social and economic), but that must be broken down in an integrated manner, moving towards a new concept of 'integral ecology'.  

The Minor's objectives are to propose a path towards integrated sustainability, using a practical-experiential method, which involves discussion with those who are trying to implement this new approach in the various fields, but also workshops offering personal experience in 'practising' sustainability.

In particular, we aim to:

  • provide the knowledge to study in depth the paradigms and bases of sustainability and its declination as an anthropological issue, placing inclusiveness as the foundation of the new paradigm of integrated sustainability;
  • study in depth the different ways of tackling the challenge of reducing unsustainability in the various fields: from research to entrepreneurship, the social sector and political field.  

The course includes an integrated sustainability workshop

Language

This Minor is taught in Italian.

Coordinator

Professor Fabio Pranovi

Modules of the Minor

Academic year 2022/2023

Recipients and credits recognition

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate and postgraduate students.

It is possible to enrol as an external user, with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp), reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp) if you are enrolled in another university.

If you are an undergraduate student at Ca’ Foscari, this Minor can be recognised in the elective course section of your Bachelor’s Degree. Final marks will not affect the average of your degree.

Enrolment, attendance and exams

This Minor is offered to a maximum of 35 participants. The call for application will be published in April - May 2023. Admitted students will proceed with the enrolment according to the timing defined in the call.

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate students. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

You can enrol in the Minor in the academic year you prefer: during the first, the second or the third year of your Bachelor’s Degree Programme. In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path.

Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge. The ECTS obtained may be recognised in the elective course section of your degree course once you have passed the exams: please check the website to understand if this applies to you and how to enrol.

If you fail one or more exams in your Minor, you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but the credits of the Minor will not be recognised in the elective course section of your degree programme.

The Minor is offered free of charge to Ca’ Foscari postgraduate students, but it cannot be recognised in the elective course section of your Master's Degree Programme. Before enrolling you must have finalised your enrolment in your Bachelor’s Degree Programme, otherwise you will be charged a 496 euros fee (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

If you are regularly enrolled at Ca' Foscari university when you enrol in the Minor path, you can complete it even after your graduation, but you have to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. IMPORTANT: Withdrawing from Minor is possible. Please, be aware that enrolling again, after the withdrawal will be at your expense.

In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol in the Minor path. Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams you will get a certification and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Minor you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.

External users, not enrolled to Ca’ Foscari undergraduate or postgraduate programmes, can enrol to the Minor with a charge of 496 euros (480 euros + 16 euros duty stamp).

If you are a student in another university, the fee is reduced to 336 euros (320 euros + 16 euros duty stamp). At the end of the enrolment process, stop before you make the payment and click on Request for assistance in order to get in touch with the Enrolment unit. Ca’ Foscari staff will contact you to explain how to get the reduction on the enrolment fee.

In order to attend the three modules, sign up and take the exams, you must enrol on the Minor path.

Enrolment lasts one year. It is mandatory to attend the three modules in the same year and to take the exams in the four exam sessions available. You will not be allowed to complete the Minor path the following year.

By passing the three Minor exams, you will get a certification and an Open Badge. If you fail one or more exams in your Minor you will still be entitled to receive the certification for the exams you passed, but not the Minor certification nor the Open Badge.