About Our Project

Major problems in the world and in the EU and in the world regarding health, envoronment and climate-change constitute an enormous challenge for continued prosperity of citizens and countries as it appears from the New Green Deal in the European Green Deal Communication and the Erasmus 2021 program. The solutions to the problems are complex . 

The SustainComp project aims to bridge the gap between sector-divided, discipline-embedded national curricula in education and addresses the current need for competence-based, integrated, interdisciplinary, and transformative Higher Education that is in congruence with the European Council Erasmus+ program and the 21st Century learning goals. 

BA, Exam. Ped., M.Ed. from Canadian & Danish universities

Heather D. Johannsen

Heather is a trained process consultant and project manager. Heather has worked in the field of (higher) education for over 20 years, with over 10 years of experience with national and international projects, e.g. projects within Erasmus+, EU Social Fund programme, Nordplus and The Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship. She has worked with international joint course/degree delivery, evaluation protocols, and curriculum development, and skills and competences assessments. Employed at UCL since 2014, and from 2017 she has been the Inter-Faculty International Coordinator for the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences.

Associate Professor

Dorte Ruge

Dorte holds a PhD from Aalborg University, Copenhagen (2015), is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at UCL Teacher Education and Department of Education and Social Sciences. She did her PhD on integrated approaches in health promotion, learning and sustainable development in school foodscapes. She has authored 4 publications in international scientific journals and is currently co-editor on an international book-project about school-food, equity and social justice. Since 2015 she has gained experience in development and project- management of Comenius and Erasmus+ projects. In 2019 she coauthored and published the evaluation report for ‘European healthy pupils and skilled educators in integrated school food systems’ (UWE & UCL, 2020). Currently, she is the project manager of the Nordplus Horisontal project ‘LEARNFOOD’ Norwegian, Swedish, Danish project (2019-2022). From 2015-2019 she was the head of a combined development and action research project ‘LOMA-local food’, scaling up from 1 to 6. As a lecturer at UCL she is teaching topics of education for sustainable development and gender equality topics. From 2017-2020 Dorte has been co-developer and internal evaluator in an innovative development school project, financed by the Danish Ministry of Education, with a special focus on the combination of analog and digital media in the promotion of health, learning and sustainable development (2018-2020).

DOCENT

Stefan Ting Graf

Stefan holds a Ph.D. in Educational Science from the University of Southern Denmark (2013). He joined UCL in 2013, and is a Docent and Head of Research for General Didactics and Pedagogy at the Centre for Applied Research, Education and Social Sciences at UCL. His scientific focus areas include organisational, pedagogical and technological aspects of quality in teaching and school development, where he works with both qualitative and qualitative research methods. He has authored 10 peer-reviewed publications in Danish, English and German, and 7 publications as editor. He has been involved in numerous research projects, and is currently supervising a PhD student in the Nordic QUINT research project. He led the ECER symposium in Bolzano in 2018, and has delivered 4 keynotes or papers at national/international conferences in 2016 and 2017.

Anja Rousing Lauridsen

Received my teaching credentials from UC Syd in Esbjerg in 2015, specializing in Mathematics, Physics/Chemistry, and Special Education. Employed as a teacher at Nordborg Slots Efterskole from 2015 to 2019, contributing to the school’s Science program. Completed

a Master’s program in STEM Education at the University of Copenhagen between 2020 and 2022. Currently, employed at UCL University College, where I teach courses in Physics/Chemistry and Nature/Technology as part of the Teacher Education program.

Beginning in August 2024, I’ll be embarking on a PhD journey to delve into Danish school students’ experiences within Science education.”

Thujetha T Piratheepan 

Holds a degree as a Master of Arts (MA) in English and the Study of Religions from University of Southern Denmark, Odense in 2017. Worked initially as a high school teacher for Danish and German students at VUC Syd in Southern Jutland from 2017-2019. Employed at UCL University College where she teaches English and Foreign Language Didactics for Danish and international students as part of the Teacher Education program. Other activities include teaching practice supervision, counseling and feedback provider, participation in numerous conferences related to English as well as didactics. Main research interest areas are development of the Teacher Education program, intercultural communicative competence and international collaboration 

PROFESSOR

Frøydis N. Vik

Frøydis holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Oslo (2013) and works as a professor in Public Health Nutrition at UiA. She did her PhD theses on the ENERGY project, funded by EU’s 7th framework research program (2009-2012). Vik teaches subjects related to public health nutrition, sustainable food habits, public health and health promotion. She has authored 40 original research papers published in peer-reviewed journals, several books and book chapters, and she is the PI (principal investigator) of 5 research projects. Seniority as a teacher/lecturer at the University of Agder is 26 years, and she has experience from teaching and supervision at bachelor, master’s and PhD level. She has been responsible for student exchange of Public Health and Nutrition students at UiA since 2013.

PROFESSOR

Nina C. Øverby

Nina holds a PhD in Nutrition from the University of Oslo (2008) and is a professor at UiA. Since 2019, she has headed the Priority Research Centre Lifecourse Nutrition at the University of Agder. This Centre includes 36 researchers, where 23 are in permanent positions at UiA,12 Phd-students/post-doc’s and several international professors part time. Øverby has authored 96 original research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and several books and book chapters. She has 21 years of experience in teaching, supervising at all levels from both University of Oslo and UiA.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Cecilie Beinert

Cecilie holds a PhD in Pedagogy and Public Health Nutrition from UiA (2021). She works as an associate professor at UiA, where she teaches teacher education students in home economics (master level) and public health students. Beinert has special expertise in student active learning tasks. She has published 7 scientific papers within the field of teaching and learning within Home Economics.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Stojan Kostanjevec

Stojan Kostanjevec has worked at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education since 1997. In 2009, he completed his Ph.D. thesis about the impact of formal education on dietary habits of children and their nutrition knowledge. His scientific activities focus on nutrition, nutrition literacy, Home Economics, health education, sustainability and consumer education. He has participated in various national and EU projects. He was a member of the DIETS Thematic Network (Dietitians Improving the Education and Training Standards) that provided descriptions in all areas of dietetic practice, education and training throughout Europe and developed education courses for dietitians, publicized best practices and contributed to the research capacity and capability of dietitians.
 He was a member of the national group for the analysis of food consumption of Slovenians, which was conducted as part of the EU MENU research by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).  He is a co-author of different didactic materials for nutrition education. He authored various professional and scientific papers that have been presented or published at international conferences and in professional and scientific journals. He is also the author of different nutrition textbooks for nutrition education in primary school. He was the president of the Slovene Nutritionist and Dietetic Association, member and national representative of the EFAD (European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians) and he is the coordinator of the Eco-faculty programme at the Faculty of Education.

Assistant

Martina Erjavšek

Martina is assistant at the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Home Economics of the Faculty of Education.Her scientific activities focus on Home Economics and Nutrition Education. Her research interests are home economics, sustainable nutrition education and healthy lifestyle. She is the author of various professional and scientific papers in the field of home economics, nutrition and nutrition education. She has participated in national programmes to promote the nutritional literacy of children and other population groups. She is the author of didactic materials to promote the nutritional knowledge and skills of children and adults. At the Faculty of Education, she takes part in various subjects in the field of nutrition and nutrition education.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Francka Lovšin Kozina

Francka is assistant professor at the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Home Economics of the Faculty of Education. She finished her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Education, Biology and Home Economics programme, and received her Ph.D. in 2006 at the Faculty of Economics. Her teaching activities focus mainly on home economics and didactics.She is responsible for the practical training of students and the delivery of home economics, nutrition.

ASSistant

Barbara Zaman

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Jitka Slaná Reissmannova

Assistant professor at the Department of Physical Education and Health Education of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. Her scientific activities focus on Health Education in the area of prevention of chronic non-infectious diseases and old age syndrome, reproductive health, and the first aid. She is a member of the expert working group of the State Health Institute of the Health Promoting School program and a Vice–President of the Association for Health Promotion and Health Education. She is the author of more than 100 professional articles and teaching materials. 

Vice-dean for Internationalization and an assistant Professo

Zdeněk Janík

Zdeněk is a Vice-dean for Internationalization Emeritus; Assistant Professor at the Department of English language and literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. His scientific and research activities are Critical Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Pedagogy, and Internationalization of HE curriculum.  

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Petr Kachlík

Petr Kachlík is associate professor at the Department of Special and Inclusive Education of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. His scientific and research activities focus on medical–oriented subjects: Health Science, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Addictology, Neurology, Prevention of Risk Behavior, and Social Pathology. He published more than 420 professional and popular articles. 

Markéta Košatková