Check Out the Sustainability Committee!

The IE Environmental Sustainability Committee acts as the umbrella organization of ten clubs under the auspices of IE Campus Life and IE University’s Sustainability Office. The Committee aspires to help IE achieve its ambitious goals and create an environment and culture that inspires students to become the next generation of environmentally conscious and sustainably-minded leaders. Read the full article written by one of its first members, Mia Balansag. Click here.

Faces of Change

22 IE community members took a bold first step towards making our community better and creating the world they wish to live in. These FACES OF CHANGE have embraced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The IE Sustainability Office would like to share with you the work of these igniters who took a pledge in their day to day lives to make an impact. You can also join the pledge by clicking HERE. Together we can rewrite our future. We can bring about a fundamental shift in how we think and act toward one another and the planet.

Alumni Taking the Lead: Dhruv Boruah

After completing his master's in Telecom and Digital Business in 2009, Dhruv Boruah reached out to 300 million people worldwide on international and national media, including the CNN, BBC and ITV, to raise awareness about plastic pollution. He then asked himself, ‘So what?’ To have a more tangible impact, he founded CommonVC and started running human-centric design hackathons to inspire people to take action, innovate and find solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. To hear more about Dhruv’s story, Click Here.

Printing Servicing Report:

The IE IT Reporting team has shared the printing service report for the last quarter of 2019-20. Take a look and you will see that the number of printed pages has fallen by 98% compared to the same period last year and the number of pages per active user has fallen by 50%. Click here for more information.

Discover the new Sustainable IE Library campaign to access the Online Press!

IE Library offers premium subscriptions to international and national press, all available 24/7 from any device. These subscriptions make the content offered much broader, giving access not only to the daily news, but also to relevant information verified by experts, special reports, opinion columns and much more. The campaign is made up of a series of interactive 3D displays located on both the Madrid and Segovia campuses, where all users can scan the codes and directly access the materials all in a sustainable and technological way. Click here for more information.

Award for Teaching Excellence

The Faculty Awards were held last week and for the first time ever they were online and paperless. Taking advantage of the remote format, Associate Dean Isabel Sanchez sought to make the event even more sustainable by presenting digital certificates to the professors who would receive awards. Daniel Canogar, one of the foremost digital artists in Spain (as well as an adjunct professor of Design at IE), was asked to create a stunning digital certificate conceptually connected to Liquid Learning and similar to the Amalgama project he did for the Prado Museum bicentennial (2019), but in this case, created specifically for IE.

Learn about the Tumbao Project!

Showcasing Students' Work: an IE Campus Life Project is delighted to highlight Tumbao, a brand of sustainable products made from nopal created by students from the IE School of Architecture & Design! The founders have just launched a micro-funding Kickstarter campaign to boost the cactus leather accessories business. Find out more by Clicking Here

Check out the Eco Club’s Documentary Recommendations!

Here's a list of the Eco Club’s member favorites for eye-opening documentaries on the subject of climate change.
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UN 75th Anniversary Event

The SDGs Club on the Madrid Campus celebrated the UN 75th Anniversary at the end of September by hosting a debate centered around the topic “What reforms are necessary for the UN?” As the club’s first event celebrating SDG partnerships, they plan to address the most pressing issues that were raised during the debate. Find out more about their plans by Clicking Here.

SOLVEATHON: Breaking the Silence

Firefly Innovations and MIT Solve are co-hosting a virtual Solveathon on December 5th to source, generate, and refine innovative solutions related to mental health, loneliness, and substance use. The event, a collaboration between IE’s Center for Social Innovation & Sustainability and the School of Public Health of CUNY, will be a fast-paced, interactive day of meeting new people and working collaboratively on big ideas. The most promising solutions presented at the end of the day will be eligible for long-term support! Don’t miss the chance to take part in the Solveathon, click here.

Social Innovation MAPFRE Foundation Awards boosted by IE

Be sure to tune in on October 29th at 4:30 p.m. for the Grand Finale of the 3rd Edition of the MAPFRE Foundation Awards ceremony, boosted by IE. This collaboration between the IE Center for Social Innovation & Sustainability and the MAPFRE Foundation will give you the chance to hear about innovative projects that are being developed to provide inclusive solutions for a better quality of life for all. Please note that the live stream will take place in Spanish. Click here to find out more.

Sustainable and Inclusive Development through Tourism

Currently, there is no comprehensive framework that can help various actors collaboratively engage and champion inclusive community development through tourism. This project, organized by the Center for the Governance of Change, supports the ongoing efforts of the G20 Presidency and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to develop a framework that aims to inspire and guide key tourism stakeholders in the G20 countries and beyond. Their objective is to promote the development of a holistic and integrated approach to inclusive development through tourism. Sustainability measures detailed in the framework are also in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Click Here to find out more.

The extracurricular as an institutional third space

The disruption caused by the Coronavirus pandemic has required a rapid response from universities in the struggle to continue teaching. The way we interact on campus has changed, and consequently, so too has our role as educators. We have had to ask ourselves how higher education institutions can remain effective. Do we need to redesign our campuses and by the same token, our role as educators? What is our new role going to be? Cristina Mateo, Associate Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design addresses these questions: Click Here

Working Paper: Mortgage Stress without Government Guarantees.Lessons from Hurricanes and the Credit Risk Transfers

Research from IE representatives, Pedro Gete, Athena Tsouderou and Susan Wachter was featured in the MIT GCFP 7th Annual Conference. You can find out more about their research by clicking here.

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