Students explore social dimensions of sustainability at the Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture

by Barbara Micale

Riva San Vitale, location of VT's Sustainable Europe Program

"A group of 14 students headed to the Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, this past summer, enrolled in a four-week, six-credit course developed by the School of Public and International Affairs to review the concept of sustainable development in a comparative context and to explore the social dimensions of sustainability."

Read more about the Sustainable Europe program and how you can participate at this link.

Nov 17 Info Session: Sustainable Europe, June 26-July 20

Information Session
November 17
11:00am-12:00pm
Prince Street Polycom – Room 220
1021 Prince Street, Alexandria VA
Sustainable Europe
Riva San Vitale, Switzerland – June 26-July 20, 2012

Sustainable Europe Summer Course

Follow our summer course in Switzerland via our student blog at: http://europestudies.wordpress.com/.  Students will update the blog daily (or depending on travel every other day). We have 12 students from UVA and 9 from VT, including 5 graduate MURP students. Thus, chances are that you may know one of the ‘bloggers’.