The Regional Center of Educational Planning of Thessaly and the Creative Technologies Learning Lab (http://ctll.e-ce.uth.gr) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly organized a workshop entitled "Innovative Thinking for Sustainability". The workshop took take place at the Tsalapatas Multiplex, Multipurpose Hall on May 5th, 2022. It was attended by students from the 2nd Gymnasium and 6th Lyceum of Volos.
Students applied design thinking to introduce solutions to sustainability issues, and specifically more effective waste management, recognizing that innovative ideas are more effectively composed by teams with complementary skills. The solutions introduced by students concern composting, clean seas, recycling, rewarding positive behaviour towards the environment, and other sustainability issues, highlighting their awareness of contemporary 21st century challenges and their ability to analyse problems and plan interventions to address them.
The workshop constituted a multiplier event for Erasmus+ project DT4S: Design Thinking for Sustainability (http://dt4s.eu), to which the Creative Technologies Learning Lab is a partner along with educational organizations from Portugal, Estonia, Romania, and Turkey.
