Schema della sezione

  • Concept

    Catharsis is a Greek word, "κάθαρσις" which means purification. This is our philosophy, our efforts to clean the world from our negative impacts. We thrive to find new ways to reduce carbon emissions, to make the development really sustainable, to optimize existing behaviors, activities and technologies toward less impactful effects on the climate and environment.

    Sustainability involves Society, Environment and Economy. It's a triptych that can't be divided. Thus we adopt a comprehensive perspective accounting all these dimensions and that's why we need students from all the courses and all the world.

    People care if they know. Our goal is to let them know, educating and spreading awareness about sustainable patterns on all fields, especially in the most emitting and consuming sector, the energy. For a complete transition any sector must be assessed, every effort toward sustainability is appreciated.

    Organization

    Our group is composed of elective Units that help us see all our perceptions of the ideas we generate. A Unit has a leader that leads the discussions and organizes the work. 

    Research, discussion and developing concepts will follow the Theme of the Year, chosen each year. It represents a wide-ranging theme that can be deconstructed and declined as desired, inspiring individual creativity in the pursuit of sustainability.

    Each unit works on their ideas, generate concepts and share them through articles, Instagram posts, and research essays. Each work has to include real and feasible alternatives or improvements for a more sustainable solution proven by data, experiments or literature or theory models. The work done will be presented at Plenaries, held once each semester. At the end of the year a Report and a Presentation resume all the activities carried out by the Unit in the project, so the Open Badge can be submitted.

    During the year various activities will be carried out: competitions, conferences and workshops. We will both participate in others and organize our own!