Mijts, Eric2025-02-172025-02-179/17/2024Mijts, E. (17-09-2024). Sustainable Island Solutions through STEM - Opening lecture Islands Lecture Series. Institute of Island Studies - University of Prince Edward Island.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14473/1211How can we find sustainability solutions at the crossroads of global technological development and the specificity of island contexts and island communities, and how can we build academic programs that build upon the opportunities of islandness? Over the past decade, a team at the University of Aruba has taken on the challenge to develop the Sustainable Solutions through Science programs, a cluster of innovative STEM programs. Dr. Eric Mijts will dive deep into the conceptual underpinnings of the SISSTEM program including social sciences and humanities, the contextual setting, the complexities of the implementation of the programs as well as the impacts the programs have at institutional and national level as well as on the development of the field of island studies.Conference presentation