{"id":2486,"date":"2012-10-10T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2012-10-10T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:49:10","slug":"is-there-life-in-copernicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/10\/10\/is-there-life-in-copernicus\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there LiFE in Copernicus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are encouraged to take both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.leuphana.de\/copernicus\/home\">Copernicus Alliance<\/a>, and EAUC's LiFE (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeindex.org.uk\">Learning in Future Environments<\/a>), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there is something to be gained by membership. \u00a0But those involved seem as rare as a Vice Chancellor who's got a good word to say about ESD.<\/p>\n<p>Building on what remained of the Copernicus <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.leuphana.de\/copernicus\/background\">Campus<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.leuphana.de\/copernicus\/members\/\">Alliance<\/a> currently has 19 members across Europe, more than a third of which are in Austria (with over half of these in Graz). \u00a0 Similarly (although over a shorter time, and only in the UK) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeindex.org.uk\/uk\/our-institutions\/\">LiFE<\/a> has 17 university members signed up. \u00a0Who will be the first to 25, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p>My money (though not much of it) is on LiFE as it seems to have more to offer institutions, even if they are ponderously slow to appreciate this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are encouraged to take both the Copernicus Alliance, and EAUC's LiFE (Learning in Future Environments), seriously, as major initiatives supporting sustainability and learning, and I have no doubt that, for those involved, there is something to be gained by...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}