• Innovate for a Sustainable Future

    Sustainability Innovation Program
  • About Sustainability Innovation

    Sustainability Innovation, SI, 是一个专注于可持续发展议题的PBL活动(Project-Based Learning)。SI鼓励参与学生从自己所在的社区出发,发现身边存在的可持续发展选题,积极推动力所能及的可持续创新及提出创造性的解决方案。

     

    SI以团队合作与调研为核心,帮助学生将自身的实践能力、问题解决能力与可持续发展理念相结合,通过实际行动为世界的可持续发展贡献力量。

     

    自2018年启动以来,SI参与者已在全国各地推动了近千个大小不等的项目,涵盖污染治理、资源回收、农村发展、城市生态等诸多领域。不仅为环境改善提供了创新的思路,也在持续产生积极影响。


    加入我们,一起为社会和社区的可持续发展贡献你的智慧和力量。让我们一起通过可持续创新,创造更美好的未来!

  • 从身边的社区出发,开展你的可持续创新项目

    为什么要从社区出发?

    比起关注"远方"难以触及、令人无法理解学生为什么会去关注的社会问题而言,着眼于自己身边社区的现状和未来发展才显得更加脚踏实地。

     

    一个学生真正关心自己周围的环境,并切实地为邻近社区的发展和改变贡献出自己的力量,这样的同学会被认为拥有社区责任感和社区关怀。

     

    自2021年开始,可持续创新项目将规定选题(即可持续发展问题)必须来自于项目成员当地所居住的社区,并影响到项目成员及社区成员的实际日常生活。我们鼓励学生发现、关心和解决当地社区的可持续发展问题。

    如何开展自己的SI可持续创新?

    学生将在可持续创新项目 Sustainability Innovation(SI)形成自己的全英文创新项目报告,内容是团队就当地社区存在的可持续发展问题提出的解决方案。

     

    同一项目单位/学校内的5-10人组成可持续创新项目组,选择一个本团队希望解决的当地社区现存的可持续发展问题,该问题需要符合联合国十七个可持续发展目标中的任意一个目标。

     

    团队将通过研究、根据SI的框架最终为该社区问题提出一个可持续创新解决方案。

  • 专业观点

    “自《布伦特兰报告》以来,可持续发展就已经被列入大学的议程,因此大学要确保他们培养的成百上千名毕业生能够充分理解可持续发展及其在社会中的作用,并做出力所能及的努力。”

     

    — 国际大学联盟秘书长、国际大学局执行主任Hilligje van't Land

    “年轻人应当弱化个人成就,转而关心他人和公益。社区服务意识(sense of community service)一直以来都是美国名校申请中重要的衡量指标,因为美国的教育理念向来都注重培养学生回馈社会的意识,希望他们通过自己所学帮助他人。”

    -《扭转潮流:通过大学招生鼓励关心他人和公益》

    哈佛大学教育学院,2019

    “如果今天你要问我们中国的一个年轻学生,你父母的工作是什么,父母买小区房子的时候是怎么考虑的,你家小区从社会意义上来讲在城市里处于什么样的位置,周围的菜市场是怎么运转的,小区附近的道路是如何安排的,你的学校怎么发展起来的,他通常会描述不清楚。学生描述不清楚的原因是他觉得这个有点无聊。他眼里的东西更多是超越这些的,比如说,如何考上好大学,某学校的世界排名是怎样的,托福/GRE怎么考,他对于这个系统比较熟悉。”

    —项飙,英国牛津大学社会人类学教授

  • 联合国颁布的十七项全球可持续发展目标

    (Sustainable Development Goals,SDGs)

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  • Sustainability Innovation可持续创新可运用的学科知识

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    工程

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    环境科学

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    生物

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    物理

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    化学

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    计算机科学

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    地理

  • 学生在可持续创新项目的收获

    形成全英文的可持续创新项目报告

    可作为申请补充材料或作为学术经历使用。

    获得可持续创新项目证书

    优秀项目团队可凭作品获得相应的成绩证书和参与证明。证书以团队为单位颁发,团队中每一个人都将获得一份证书。

    提升自身的问题解决能力

    学生在专业支持下提升问题解决能力,可应用在今后的学习与申请中。

    学习实用的设计思维方法

    学习斯坦福大学设计学院的设计思维课程,掌握设计思维的方法,提出可持续创新的解决思路,可应用于今后的学习中。

    有机会获邀参加线下发布会

    我们将为优秀团队在上海科学会堂举办可持续创新项目专场发布会,帮助学生向社会发布创新成果,提升项目及团队的影响力。

  • 全球合作伙伴

    Sustainability Innovation为学生提供更大的舞台

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    世界未来能源峰会 World Future Energy Summit

    世界未来能源峰会是全球最重要的年度会议, 致力于通过政治、商业、金融、学术等各界领导人的力量, 驱动新能源领域的创新、商业和投资机会,以回应对未来能源日益增长的需求。 世界未来能源峰会由阿布扎比政府和国有可再生能源公司MASDAR发起,每年定期在阿联酋首都阿布扎比国家展览中心 举办,自2008年至今已成功举办八届。每年会议将会有近50个国家的600余家新能源机构、 25000余名专业人士、150余个国家代表和超过700余家的国际媒体出席。联合国秘书长潘基文、中国前国务院总理温家宝、约旦国皇后等均曾出席世界未来能源峰会并发表重 要讲话,凸显出峰会在全球可持续发展领域的顶级地位,以及全球和中国对新能源以及可持续发展的关注和支持。

     

    自2016年开始,SI即在优秀学生中选拔佼佼者作为高中生代表前往阿布扎比参加世界未来能源峰会。

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    扎耶德未来能源奖 Zayed Future Energy Prize

    扎耶德未来能源奖是由阿联酋政府以阿联酋国父扎耶德名义设立的全球级别能源奖项,旨在奖赏和激励在全球范围内为能源创新和可持续发展做出杰出贡献的人物和青年。奖项分别设有大企业组、小企业组、公益机构组、高中组、专家组等组别,过去获得奖项的包括美国前副总统、挪威前总理、通用电气集团、比亚迪集团,以及来自韩国、非洲、巴西、加拿大等地的高中生。在SI中表现优秀的能源领域相关创新项目,可获得推荐资格参加扎耶德未来能源奖的评选。

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    世界环保大会 World Conservation Congress

    世界环境保护大会 (World Conservation Congress)是全球规模最大、规格最高的环境保护会议,由世界上最大的国际环保组织世界自然保护联盟IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)举办, 至今已有68年的历史。会议每四年举办一次,每年聚集来自世界各地近万名代表,包括政府首脑、国际组织官员和环境保护专家等, 旨在探讨和学习世界最前沿的环境保护知识、技术和经验,为社会各界提供最前沿的环保最信息。今年与会的政要包括摩洛哥王子阿尔伯特二世、美国内政部长Sally Jewell女士、联合国教科文组织总干事 Irina Bokova女士,世界自然基金会总秘书长Marco Lambertini等人。

     

    下一届世界环境保护大会将于2025年在阿联酋举行,SI将继续派遣优秀学生代表出席。

  • 可持续创新项目的命题人及评委

    部分邀请自

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    IUCN Nature For All

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    IUCN

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    China Youth Climate Action Network

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    The Nature Conservancy

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    桃花源基金会

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    麻省理工学院

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    同济大学

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    上海交通大学

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    西交利物浦大学

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    Duke University

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    杜克昆山大学

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    Honeywell

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    蔚来汽车

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    Johnson Controls

  • 关心可持续发展,展现社区关怀、社会责任心、创新能力和问题解决能力

  • 参与者声音

    “我们以水污染作为切入点,原来想当然的理论在经过论证和调研之后全部被推翻了。治理水污染没有绝对正确答案,但我们想通过实验和测试得出自己满意的成果。在完成一个长篇的创新项目之后,结果在一瞬间都不重要了,因为这个实践的过程里面,我们团队获得了太多意想不到的成长了。”

    “我们是从上届选手中了解到这个项目的,学校没有开设专门的AP环境,觉得自己没有优势。当时发邮件询问应怎么入手,老师建议我们要从生活中找线索。于是团队一致决定做更好的校园垃圾处理方案。确定主题之后我们寻求了学校化学等学科老师的帮助,花时间去学习和研究。小组分工太重要了!相较于高一时候参加的一些活动,这次经历对我个人独立思考和逻辑来说,都是非常珍贵和必要的。 ”

    “我会特别建议学弟学妹去尝试创新项目,这是一个非常有助于提升自我能力的项目活动。只要我们想做这件事,就一定能从周围发掘灵感,也就一定会想到不一样的解决方案。踏出舒适区,才会给自己一个新的机会。”

  • 2023-2024学年 可持续创新项目时间

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    项目报名

    2024年2月20日-6月20日

    • 早鸟报名:2月20日-4月18日
    • 常规报名:4月19日-6月20日

    同校/同单位5-10人组队报名,可跨年级

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    选题

    2024年7月10日前

    根据问题列表或自选题,

    选择准备解决的问题

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    在线学习

    2024年6-8月

    调研期间,选手可通过学习官方提供的斯坦福大学设计学院的设计思维课程,掌握设计思维的方法和过程,从而更好地设计解决方案。

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    研究和设计

    2024年7-8月

    选手在暑假期间针对目标解决的问题,

    进行调研、分析和方案设计。由全球范围内的可持续发展专家进行指导和修改

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    导师修改

    2024年7-8月

    每支队伍将配备一名专业导师,为学生提供2次一对一辅导。导师将对学生的方案提出专业点评和细致的修改意见

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    提交终稿

    2024年9月10日

    小组提交项目报告终稿

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    结果公布

    2024年10月中上旬

    由评委评出表现优秀的项目,并颁发证书

  • 可持续创新相关阅读

    持续更新中

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    知名时尚企业的系列可持续创新实践

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    “大学的使命是为了一个更健康、更有弹性的未来”

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    从成熟的可持续创新项目中获取灵感

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    迈向“净零转型”实现可持续发展

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    我们为什么需要可持续创新项目?

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    生物领域的创新为世界可持续发展带来福音

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    物理领域的创新为世界可持续发展带来福音

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    大至宇宙,小至粒子,物理学领域的革新都导向于可持续发展

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    人类认知和改造物质世界的最终方向必然是可持续发展的

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    人类认知和改造物质世界的最终方向必然是可持续发展的

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    六大步骤帮助学生培养问题解决能力

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    斯坦福大学设计学院完善和推出的风靡全速的创新思想和工作方法论

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    Empower Students to Meet The Global Challenges of Today and Tomorrow

    In 2015, the United Nations put forward seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, clearly stating that from 2015 to 2030, the international community should address the three dimensions of development - social, economic and environmental - with a unified standard and strive for a common global shift toward sustainable development.

     

    The Sustainability Innovation follows the UN Sustainable Development Goals and encourages students to contribute to global sustainable environmental issues raised by SDGs.

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    ‘Long-term Thinking’ Advocated by Universities and Social Elites

    "Sustainable development has become an important agenda for universities since the Brundtland Report, so it is up to universities to ensure that they produce hundreds of graduates who fully understand sustainable development and its role in society, and do what they can."

    ——Hilligje van't Land

    Secretary General of the International Association of Universities

    Executive Director of the International Universities Bureau

     

    Among the top 50 universities in the QS World University Rankings, 80% of universities have formulated sustainable development strategies, plans and operations.

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    Participant’s Voice

    "I would especially advise students to try the innovation activities, which is a very helpful project to improve the self-competence. As long as we want to do this, we will discover inspiration from our surroundings and come up with different solutions. Stepping out of your comfort zone is the only way to give yourself a new chance."

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    Become Future Green Leaders

    Sustainability Innovation is dedicated to training future green leaders by providing students with the opportunity to solve sustainable development issues, helping them integrate their practical skills and problem-solving abilities with sustainable development theories, and contribute to the global sustainable development through practical actions.

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    Start With Community Around Us

    In 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report titled "Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admission" which pointed to a shift in admissions requirements for applicants to top universities - the youth should focus less on personal achievements and more on caring for others and the common good. Sense of community service has long been an important indicator in applications to global top universities.

     

    Sustainability Innovation encourages students to care about their surroundings and contribute to the change of neighboring communities. Their sense of community responsibility and community care will be demonstrated during the process of envisioning and implementing the Sustainability Innovation program.

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    Sustainable Practices at Top Universities

    Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, Yale University, Princeton University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Cornell University and other well-known universities have established the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development Management. Harvard University, MIT and Cambridge University have also established their sustainability websites to publish information and news about their activities to enhance students' awareness of sustainable development.

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    Understanding Sustainability Innovation

    As the global leader in high technology with a history of more than 100 years in sustainability, Honeywell announced in April 2021 its commitment to achieve carbon neutrality goals for all business operations and facilities by 2035.

     

    Approximately 50 percent of Honeywell's new product development starts with improving the environmental performance and social benefits. In addition, Honeywell's low-carbon products and energy-saving solutions for buildings are widely used in airports, office buildings, factories, shopping centers, hospitals and many other fields.

     

    More and more examples show us that sustainable development is becoming an inevitable choice for global development, and that sustainability is becoming a new frontier for innovation.

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    A Project-based Learning Experience

    Sustainability Innovation Program requires students to develop their own innovation project report by identifying sustainability issues in their local community and designing reasonable solutions. SI provides students with the opportunity to identify and solve sustainability issues around them through teamwork and research, helping them to combine their practical and problem-solving skills with sustainable development, and to contribute to the world's sustainable development through their actions.

     

    It is a project based on concern for sustainability issues in the local community, where students will engage in an in-depth sustainability learning experience through Sustainability Innovation. This project-based learning is a student-led learning method, which allows students to acquire new knowledge and skills through research, inquiry and commitment to solving problems and challenges with an innovative approach.

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    What students get out of the SI?

    • A full-length Sustainability Innovation report
    • Certificate of participation and awards in Sustainability Innovation
    • Improving problem-solving skills and design thinking skills
    • Passion and skills demonstrated in the Sustainability Innovation would be a good story students can tell to the college admission officers.
    • Opportunity to attend the Sustainability Innovation annual presentation
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    Design Thinking Courses and Skills

    Sustainability Innovation will provide participants with design thinking courses of the Institute of Design at Stanford University. The courses will help participants master the design thinking skills and in turn learn to design solutions for Sustainability Innovation.

     

    What is design thinking? Design thinking is essentially a human-centred approach to problem solving. It is the process of problem identification and problem solving, which breaks down limitations to continually derive the nature of the problem.

     

    As innovation becomes the core competency in all industries, design thinking is becoming more widely popular, and it is practised effectively in business, literature, science, education and other fields. Design Thinking helps students develop analytical skills, problem-solving abilities and helps them integrate the different parts into a system.

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    2020-2021 Superior Award Project

    One Rip Away From Saving the Marine: More Sustainable Approach to Deal with Disposable Medical Masks

    ——BASIS International School Guangzhou

     

    In order to improve the current situation of the overuse of disposable medical masks due to COVID-19, the team of BASIS International School Guangzhou developed multiple solutions. After reading academic essays, visiting research institutes, analyzing survey about public awareness on the mask situation, and interviewing specialists from related industries, they developed solutions on various aspects: technological, managerial, and promotional.

     

    It is worth mentioning that they advocate "Break It" action, which has a three-step procedure for disposing medical disposable masks in a more environmentally friendly way. Step one: pull the ear loops of the mask off; step two: tear and rip the masks apart; step three: throw the fractured mask away.

     

    Judge Comments

    "Congrats on exploring a very timely topic. I commend the team on a thorough use of references and citations while you have summarized the issue. I also really appreciated that the team thought about a large and complex issue, but then broke it down to what is practical as a school student as part of your criteria with 'capability'. I also applaud the teams action plan as well as the many efforts they did on the ground to move their ideas – this type of passion behind action will serve you all well in the future! Congrats!"

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    What is the Study of STS?

    An Arena for Dialogue Among Students of Engineering, Humanities, The Natural Sciences and The Social Sciences.

     

    Science, Technology & Society(STS) is one of almost forty Interdisciplinary Programs at Stanford.

    Science, Technology and Society (STS) is one of almost forty interdisciplinary programs at Stanford. A common ground where ideas that transcend the divisions between fields are not merely envisioned, but practiced: the Program in Science, Technology and Society is a dynamic interdisciplinary major that provides students with a liberal arts education for the 21st century.

     

    It is a trend not only at Stanford University but also at top universities in the world to offer interdisciplinary programs.

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    About Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

    The interdisciplinary arts and sciences education crosses the boundaries between traditional disciplines to tackle problems that require a diverse set of methods and concepts. It is designed for highly motivated students who want a well-rounded and challenging education in the arts, social and natural sciences to prepare themselves for the ever-changing world of work in the 21st century. The Interdisciplinary Arts and Science program offers valuable experience and research skills for issues of personal and public concern.

     

    In Sustainability Innovation program, we provide students with an interdisciplinary learning experience in which they can acquire and apply knowledge in the engineering, environmental science, biology, physics, chemistry, computer science and geography, while acquiring technical skills along with an understanding of the history of science as well as the values and economic forces that guide technological change.

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    Tell Your SI Story to College Admission Officers

    By participating in the Sustainability Innovation program, you will work with your team members to solve sustainable development issues in an investigative way. Your practical, problem-solving skills are combined with the concept of sustainable development to contribute to the world's sustainable development in a practical way.

     

    Therefore, you will have more stories and material to tell college admission officers:

    • The interdisciplinary ability and experience you gain from SI
    • Your ability to solve real-world problems
    • Your potential to grow into the future green leader
    • Your interest in and contribution to your community
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    Academic Support

    The Sustainability Innovation ProjectGuide system will guide students in developing a project plan to solving the sustainable issues in line with the professional framework.

     

    You will learn to:

    • Develop a deep understanding of sustainability and the root cause of issues
    • Choose a viable plan to address sustainable development issues
    • Analyze the sustainability and availability of your selected solution
    • Design the prototype of solution and develop an iterative solution

     

    Unde the guidance of SI, you will gain the sustainable mindset and perspective and get academic advising from professional tutors, which will help you to achieve sustainable academic development and improve your problem-solving skills.

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    Understanding Sustainability Innovation

    Harvard’s Sustainability Plan, adopted in 2014, was created in partnership with faculty, students, and staff to align the University around a holistic vision and five-year roadmap for enhancing the well-being of the campus community. In addtion, Harvard University has articulated a climate sustainable action plan of achieving "Fossil Fuel-Neutral" in the short term by 2026 and "Fossil Fuel-Free" in the long term by 2050. Harvard University has tested promising innovation solutions that move the world away from fossil fuels.

     

    Harvard University's experience of sustainable innovation demonstrates that sustainability innovation requires clarity about your sustainable development goals and developing a detailed and implementable program to achieve them.

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    Why I Need A PBL Experience in High School?

    Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a learning strategy that encourages students to solve real problems organized in working groups. In PBL, the problem or project is the milestone of the whole learning process. The project is the way in which students learn different skills.

     

    Sustainability Innovation prepares students for academic, personal, study achievements through PBL and readies young students to rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit. Students work on a project over a period of time that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question.

     

    In Sustainability Innovation program, students make connections with the real world through in-depth project research, they can get their own unique project experiences and stories. They also demonstrate their knowledge and skills by developing a innovative solution to sustainable development issues and gain the ability to solve problems and continuously improve themselves.

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    The Integration of Framework, Process and Methodology

    The framework adopted by SI is Design Thinking, which guides how students should complete the process of the SI project step by step and what methods they should use to complete it.

     

    The framework corresponds highly to the methodology so that students can build a set of knowledge and skill that can be applied in practice, and develop the mindset of problem-solving.

     

    Based on these results, SI unifies framework, process and methodology so that students can intuitively follow the framework to complete the project step by step and solve the problem in a certain way of thinking based on the guidance of the methodology during the process, making it possible to generate a global strategy for continuous improvement.

     

    In this sense, the SI framework = the SI process = the SI methodology.

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    2020-2021 Superior Award Project


    A Systematic Solution for Rainfall Management and Utilization: Active, Beautiful and Clean Sponge Community

     

    ——Nanjing Foreign Language School

     

    In recent years, Nanjing's economy has grown rapidly, and it is facing the problem of water shortage. In order to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of Nanjing, how to solve the effective use of urban rainwater has become an important issue in development.

     

    The integration of rainwater gathering and utilization, rainwater management, and environmental landscape of communities is a complex project. The team of Nanjing Foreign Language School assessed solutions from construction cost, economic benefit, environmental benefit, ecological benefit, and public acceptance, finally determining the action plan of constructing sponge communities. They put forward strategies of rainwater utilization fit for residential areas in Nanjing according to raining characteristics, soil traits, current management of rainfall in communities, and concepts of sponge cities. In order to alleviate waterlogging, they called for increasing amount of natural infiltration of rainwater. Gathering and reusing rainwater resources in communities can not only contribute to existing water problems, but also conform to concept of ecological sustainable development.

     

    The 3D graph of the comprehensive sponge facilities in the community

     

    Judge Comments

    "It is great to see the team explore a challenging urban planning topic – integrated stormwater management in this case. As the team identified in the document, it is hard to fathom how a place with abundant rainfall can at the same time have water shortage.

    I appreciate that the team has properly set the context for this work, including through identification of rainfall of other weather characteristics of Nanjing. I also appreciate how the sections have been adequately referenced when the information has come from external sources. The efforts taken to be context specific and to identify what works and would not work within any community is also commendable......"

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