Previous Events

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online

Contact Sustainability@open.ac.uk

EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR HOSTED BY THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, PARTNER OF NET ZERO WEEK. Tuesday 9th July 2024, 14:00 – 15:00 BST FREE TICKETS HERE Synopsis: This panel session will invite discussion by OU researchers as well as industry practitioners to envision how emerging technologies may provide the...

Monday, June 3, 2024 - 13:00 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 13:00

Develop your knowledge of sustainability and gain new insights, skills, and tools to transform your organisation’s response to the climate crisis. This microcredential will help you understand the current science on climate change, as well as the impact we can make as individuals and organisa...

Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 00:00 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 00:30

Our online learning starts with four hours of self-study activity, followed by four hours of interactive training, and an individual and group action pledge that leads to Carbon Literacy certification.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 10:00 to 14:00

Tuesday 21st November 2023 at the Open University – 10am to 2 pm – Hybrid Please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/NPLjptR944 The project aims to explore how mathematical modelling and game theory can help understand the formation and adherence to international environme...

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00

MS Teams

What would it take for hydrogen to have a place in the UK’s net zero energy future? 8th Nov 13:00-14:00 GMT. REGISTER NOW. Decarbonising our current energy economy is a critical challenge faced by the UK on the road to Net Zero. But how do we do this and create a new net zero energy economy?...

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 09:00 to 16:00

Online - please register

‘World Symposium on Climate Change Policies: Science and Technology in Support of Policy-Making in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation’, online, and free of charge, on Tuesday 19 September 2023. Through online delivery, this event (hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University) ...

Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online - please register

The Open University is an official partner of Net Zero Week (1 – 7 July) and we are hosting an event on ‘Net Zero Skills and the Role of Universities’ on Thursday 6 July at 12 – 1pm. In 2019 the UK Government legislated to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050. The transitio...

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online - please register for the YouTube link

To celebrate the release of Wild Isles, Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University, invites you to join him for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at our recent series, made by Silverback Films and co-produced by The Open University, RSPB and WWF for BBC One and iPlayer.&nb...

Monday, April 17, 2023 - 11:45 to Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:45

The OU is following the Responsible Futures framework to embed sustainability in the formal, informal and subliminal curriculum. Join us for a Responsible Futures webinar hosted by the University of Derby and Derby Union of Students on 26thApril 1:30-3pm focusing on nature connectedness in student l...

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 13:00 to 13:00

Online - please register

Join us for the first in an exciting new series of ‘Open Conversations’ events from the Open University. Designed to promote and enable open conversation between panel members and the audience, these events will prompt dynamic discussion and a solutions-focussed approach whilst...

Monday, July 11, 2022 - 13:00 to Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 15:00

Online and in person at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Machynlleth

This is a four-day eco-sabbatical to listen, collaborate and co-create opportunities for integrating regenerative and carbon positive skills into key sectors. We're inviting sustainability pioneers, practitioners and people with sustainability and net zero responsibilities in their workplaces t...

Friday, February 25, 2022 - 18:00 to 19:00

Online

Join a virtual event hosted by Dr Tara Shine, a scientist, policy adviser, public speaker, social entrepreneur, explorer, and author. As well as OU academics, we will be joined by BBC Producer Paul Williams, to look even further behind the scenes of The Green Planet.

Sunday, November 7, 2021 - 12:30 to 12:30

The Open University is co-hosting a unique event at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), one of several initiatives to mark its commitment to responding to the climate crisis. In this COP26 Green Zone event, Ancient Knowledge and Modern Thinking: Climate Pe...