The University of Messina has activated the multidisciplinary course “Sustainability”, offered both in Italian and in English (“Sostenibilità” and “Sustainability”).
All students enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s, and single-cycle master’s degree programmes may choose this course and include it as an “elective student activity” (TAF D), following the procedures already established for the selection of elective courses.
The course may also be attended by PhD students, scholarship holders, and research fellows enrolled at the University; for these categories, no final exam is provided.
Both courses, “Sostenibilità” and “Sustainability,” are available online and can be accessed by students starting from the second semester.
The course is divided into 11 thematic lessons, for a total of 36 hours of course, held in collaboration with university professors who are experts in the various disciplines listed below:
1. Concept of Sustainability from a philosophical-epistemological, anthropological and sociological perspective.
2. Legal foundations of Sustainability.
3. Major issues of environmental Sustainability: causes and consequences of climate change.
4. Energy transition and sustainability.
5. Sustainable mobility.
6. Circular Economy and Sustainability.
7. Nutrition, health and sustainability.
8. Sustainability and digital technologies.
9. Equity, inclusion and social justice.
10. Communicating Sustainability.
11. Measuring Sustainability.
To pass the final exam (in the form of a multiple-choice test), which is awarded with a minimum mark of 18 and allows the acquisition of 6 ECTS credits, full viewing of the video lectures is strongly recommended. The supporting teaching materials provided (concept map, slides, glossary) are intended as complementary resources and do not, by themselves, constitute an alternative to the complete viewing of the video lectures. The video lectures are also supplemented by the opportunity to practise repeatedly using multiple-choice self-assessment tests..
The teaching materials for the multidisciplinary course Sustainability Sostenibilità and Sustainability for the academic year 2025–2026 is available on the new University e‑learning platform
Users who have never logged into the moodle platform must do so in order to view the lectures. As soon as you log in with your institutional credentials (codicefiscale@studenti.unime.it) in moodle platform, simply send an email to progettosostenibilita@unime.it indicating your username: (codicefiscale@studenti.unime.it).
NEW!!!
I Exam call – Summer Session.
Registration will be open from 13 May to 4 June 2026. After 4 June, it will no longer be possible to register for the exam.
The exams will take place in Room 206 of the building in Via Pietro Castelli starting from 8 June 2026. The exams will be organized into groups of 25 candidates, based on the registrations entered on ESSE3.