TREnD (Teaching Resilience and Environmental Democracy) is a new project in which the Media & Learning Association is a partner. As part of the project, the consortium partners have developed a Staff Training Programme to support academic staff in applying innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The second webinar in this series will take place on 11 March 2026, 15:00–16:30 CET, featuring Bill Rankin from Yale University, USA. This talk Integrating Critical Mapping into Higher Education is an exploration of how new kinds of cartography can challenge the entrenched politics of mainstream mapping. By combining historical research on the history of data maps with Rankin’s own work as a cartographer over the last twenty years, it argues that contemporary cartography should be guided not just by new data or new technology, but by a new set of values.
Related training sessions:
- 25 March, 15:00:00–16:30 CET Miriam Mulders (University of Duisburg-Essen), Employing Virtual and Extended Reality in Higher Education
- 20 April, 15:00:00–16:30 CET, Hanna Lappalainen (University of Helsinki), Virtual Exchanges for Sustainable Education: The Cases of ERASMUS+ UNAVEX /CLUVEX Virtual Exchange Projects
*TREnD (Teaching Resilience and Environmental Democracy) is an innovative project that advances environmental education through collaborative assignments, virtual exchanges, and VR/XR experiences. The initiative promotes resilience, environmental democracy, and sustainability by supporting academic staff development and enhancing students’ digital and intercultural competences. TREnD also supports civic participation and engagement as well as helps learners recognise and address environmental misinformation.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Stichting Nuffic. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Project Number: 2025-1-NL01-KA220-HED-000355762
