The course is initiated with a lecture introducing and discussing the UN sustainability goals, the UN resolution on a global geodetic reference frame for sustianable develoopment, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as ethical aspects in geodesy, and other topics of international geodetic relevance at the time of the lecture.
The lecture will be followed by a seminar where the students must present and discuss their own geodetic research in a context of sustainable development and current ethical questions