GROUNDBREAKING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROGRAMME DELIVERS INNOVATIVE AND EXPANDABLE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS TACKLING GLOBAL PROBLEMS
July 1st, 2019
THE EMPATHY, connectedness and flexibility skills taught to students during an innovative international problem solving programme at the USA’s University of Oregon (UO) have manifested themselves in three prize-winning solutions to community problems.
These focused on environmental degradation, social inequality and public health, with students having 10 days this month to develop groundbreaking ideas for action at an Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Undergraduate Leaders Program.
These were developed after students attended skills-building ...
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