The core of the Academy’s work is accompanied processes on specific sustainability topics that have a high potential from an UBA. Professional actors from different professional and institutional backgrounds work together over a period to solve concrete sustainability problems. The Academy accompanies these collaborations through goal-oriented didactic preparation, theoretical impulses and practical exercises.
The process of the series could extend over a period of six to nine months with one to three in person events, e.g. at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the process (in Dessau or at partner’s locations). However, the exact schedule is always adapted to the needs of a specific topic and its context. In addition, there will be regular online meetings and, if necessary, supplementary offers and supporting communication channels.
Draft process architecture Source: German Environment Agency
Course of the process
Through targeted invitations, the Academy ensures that different (even controversial) perspectives on the sustainability problem are represented in a group. In the course of the process, participants are accompanied in this process to (as examples):
reach a consensually accepted evidence base on a specific sustainability problem and its causes;
develop accepted actions to address this problem that participants can implement in their respective professional contexts;
develop concrete collaboration plans among participants.
The basis of the elaboration of a concrete professional topic for transformational support are the guiding principles of the TES Academy.
Worldwide network
The Academy uses the above-mentioned instruments to connect actors worldwide and thus build networks and partnerships that contribute to the realization of the sustainability transformation.
Navigating Uncertainty: Diplomacy and Sustainability Actors Forging New Alliances
An initiative to establish an “accelerator group” to act at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (October 7–8, 2024)
Process started with a virtual kick-off on 26 March 2024. read more
Promoting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in international law for a sustainability transformation towards a circular economy
TES Academy transformation process, June 2023 to summer 2024 read more
Greenhouse gas-neutral administrations: Empowering professionals from public administrations to turn them into role models of transition
TES Academy transformation process, starting November 2023 with first workshop in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany read more
From 14 to 16 February 2023, the International Academy Transformation for Environment and Sustainability at the UBA (abbreviated to "TES Academy") held a three-day workshop on "Corruption Prevention as a Prerequisite for Successful Sustainability Transformation". In a video statement, the participating international experts call for cooperation in the prevention of corruption.Corrupt practices are... read more
12th – 14th December 2022, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany.
Resilience in the face of multiple crises – Pathways and obstacles toward a resilient sustainability transformation. read more
The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.
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