Interactive courses

Universities play a key role in making societies aware of the impact that human activities have to the environment and thus leading them to more sustainable patterns of consumption and production.

Both in their role as centres for research and development and as institutions for knowledge promotion, Universities are the means by which future experts, industrialists and entrepreneurs can learn that the degradation of the environment is not a collateral and unavoidable effect associated to economic and industrial development but an environmentally sound business management can involve economic and corporate benefits for companies.

Therefore, in order to succeed in involving the private sector in the commitment to sustainable development, CP/RAC is aware of the need to act from the early stages of university training so that students understand and learn the opportunities offered by the application of CP as a business management strategy.

For that reason, CP/RAC has developed an e-course on Pollution Prevention at Source in Enterprises that can be used as tool through which universities introduce CP in their curricula.

The project is based in a similar experience on how to introduce CP in the curricula of several Catalan universities.

The aim of the e-course is to provide the student with an updated knowledge of the principles and methods of CP and to prepare them for action in the future. It is aimed at university students and professionals who would like to acquire full training in CP, the most widespread method focused on prevention, or to learn about its main concepts in order to incorporate these into a more heterogeneous view of environmental techniques.

The course is not intended to be purely informative or to be used as an encyclopaedia. Instead it is intended to be educational in the application of the different methodologies and in the elements supporting these methodologies. It is conceived as a guide to introduce CP to future professionals, using experience gained during the development period of CP.

The course includes interactive characteristics in order to help the user. These characteristics include mechanisms that provide navigation, additional information and look personalization, as well as self-correcting activities. It has also been designed so a part or the complete book can be printed.