Our first contribution from the DEEPCEL project was presented at the EDUCON 2025 conference. It is entitled “Transforming Digital Electronics Education: Integrating Sustainability Through Eco-Design, Modularity, and Circular Practices” and to start the project we had to investigate what our colleagues were doing to convey to students the notions of sustainability, circularity or resilience in electronics.
Our study shows that teachers would be very enthusiastic about integrating eco-design and sustainability issues into our training curricula and that this would bring many benefits (see Fig. 3).
However, at present, the majority of teachers surveyed believe that they do not have the resources available to do so (see Fig. 4), and almost a quarter believe that they are not trained in the issues of eco-design and sustainability, particularly as applied to electronics.
The detailed study published can be cited and consulted below:
Cruz, C., Bravo, I., Martín, E., Lemaire, E., Chemla, J. P., Zambelli, C., … & Alves, J. C. (2025, April). Transforming Digital Electronics Education: Integrating Sustainability Through Eco–Design, Modularity, and Circular Practices. In 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) (pp. 1-9). IEEE. (https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON62633.2025.11016478) postprint version available at: https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10017/65564/Transforming_Cruz_IEEE_EDUCON_2025.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
NB: the deepcel project is an Erasmus+ KA220-HED project co-funded by the European Union.
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