Competences for climate change education in a virtual mobility setting

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-65

  Salgado, Francisca Pérez ^a   De Kraker, Joop ^a   Boon, Jo ^a   Van Der Klink, Marcel ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change in higher education; Competences in higher education; European citizenship; Intervention competence; Transboundary competence; Virtual mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859396085     PISSN: 17408822     EISSN: 17408830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISD.2012.046053     Document Type: Article

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