Project Description

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

As sustainability is made of three dimensions, our group is composed of different Units that help us see all our perceptions of the ideas we generate. Each Unit has a leader that leads the discussions and organizes the work. 

Research, discussion and developing concepts will be guided by leaders and will follow the Theme of the Year, chosen by senior member the previous year. The TOTY 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 creating articles, Instagram posts, and essays on the research and ideas developed for mitigating and adapting to climate change. Each work has to include real and feasible alternatives or improvements for a more sustainable solution proven by data, experiments or literature. 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.