Societal Impacts, 2023, 100015
This article explores the role of community proactivity in advancing sustainable futures and its impact on community development, with a focus on the sustainability planning process in Vytina County, Greece. The authors employ a bottom-up planning process and a mixed-methods approach to assess proactivity and resistance to change, highlighting the significance of proactivity in achieving sustainable development and its role in shaping communities' futures.
Societal Impacts, 2023, 100012
Global citizenship is a key response in contemporary higher education which aims to prepare students to address present and future challenges. This study outlines the design, international virtual collaboration, for an undergraduate course to develop students' global citizenship competencies. International virtual collaboration works as an open-source instrument that provides an inclusive, equitable and low environmental impact solution to the internationalization of university students at home. The authors explain an iterative Participatory Action Research methodology to develop and enhance the present and anticipated positive societal impact of the course.
