Who are we?

We are a transdisciplinary collective leveraging the potential of higher education for transformative change. Our goal is to transform higher education to accelerate a just transition and advance climate justice.

We are a union with members representing higher education institutions, diverse communities and other organisations. The union was formed on the island of Ireland but welcomes members from all parts of the world.

What do we believe?

• We are deeply concerned about the worsening polycrisis caused by extractive systems, exploitative economics and colonial power structures.

• We believe the higher education sector has a critical role to play in societal transformation toward an equitable, stable and healthy future that rebalances humanity within ecological systems of reciprocity and regeneration.

• We embrace climate justice as a transformative and holistic lens that recognises the interconnectivity of both the challenges to and the opportunities for change.

• We recognise the need to care for land, water, biodiversity and human well-being as part of natural interconnected healthy ecosystems.

• We view higher education as an underleveraged resource for facilitating societal transformation toward climate justice and a just transition.

What do we do?

We are collectively reimagining higher education structures and processes for societal transformation: Higher education institutions have unique potential to contribute to changing the economic and political structures currently exacerbating economic inequities, health disparities, ecological devastation and climate injustices.

We collaborate, experiment and grow together. We strive to build coalitions among diverse communities within and beyond higher education. We collectively strategise toward higher education playing a larger role in imagining and co-creating transformative approaches to our planetary crisis.