Sustainability, Computing and Green Economy
General
Code: BSC_IT40
Language: English
Delivery: In person
Prerequisites: None
Workload
- Lectures: 39.0 hours
- Lab: 0.0 hours
- Study: 46.0 hours
- Project: 40.0 hours
Course Content
- Introduction to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
- Energy consumption from Computing
- Critical Raw Materials
- Computing and Critical Raw Materials
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management
- The relation of computing to WEEE generation
- Τhe positive contributions of Computing on Sustainability (process optimisation, dematerialisation, advanced simulation of environmental phenomena)
- Introduction to the Green Economy Principles
-Entrepreneurship, smart technologies, and sustainability
-ESG and computing
-Sustainable consumption and ΙοT
-Global environmental problems and artificial intelligence
Learning Outcomes
Following the completion of the course, the students are expected to:
- Identify the correlation of Computing with the production and use of electrical energy
- Identify the correlation of Computing with Critical Raw Materials
- Identify the correlation of Computing with the generation of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Identify the positive contributions of Computing on Sustainability (process optimisation, dematerialisation, advanced simulation of environmental phenomena)
Skills
Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
Adapting to new situations
Decision-making
Working independently
Team work
Working in an international environment
Working in an interdisciplinary environment
Production of new research ideas
Project planning and management
Respect for difference and multiculturalism
Respect for the natural environment
Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
Criticism and self-criticism
Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
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