EARTH has a network of almost 3,000 alumni from 55 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, who contribute to the sustainable development of their countries and who construct a prosperous and just society.
Graduate Charbel Assemaani (Class of 2015, Lebanon) loved his EARTH class on Food Processing. Today he is co-founder of Semani Yogurt, a company making high-quality, small batch yogurt on the island of Antigua. Learn about the ways Semani has made a splash in a competitive market and how they plan to continue growing…
When Nokubonga Cherryl Ndima (Class of 2012) was growing up in Durban, South Africa, she dreamed of being a surgeon. But while working with her family in their vegetable garden of carrots, cabbages, and spinach, she began to make a connection: she saw how people often went to the doctor and had health problems because they did not live healthy lifestyles or have access to nutritious food…
From drying fruits and vegetables with local women farmers to advising on rural connectivity and sustainability projects, the story of Forget Shareka (Class of 2019, Zimbabwe) shows that climate action begins by listening to communities’ voices and needs…
Once graduated, an EARTH professional has the following skills:
Ability to make decisions, promote change and ensure that others do so at local and global levels, influencing decision makers in a constructive and participatory manner.
Respect towards the principles that govern the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, driven by EARTH University’s values to contribute to sustainable development and build a prosperous and just society.
Ability to identify needs and commit to opportunities that promote human and the planet’s welfare.
Capacity to communicate in an effective, assertive and multimodal manner.
Ability to interact collaboratively and with emotional intelligence, in diverse, intercultural and interdisciplinary contexts, motivating and leading teams towards common goals.
Attitude to learn and keep themselves permanently updated.
Ability to identify, raise and solve issues in a critical, creative and structured way.
Ability to solve agricultural, community development and environmental management problems.
Ability to develop and manage projects based on the identification of rural community development and environmental management opportunities, with a global and entrepreneurial perspective.
Ability to create and manage businesses and agricultural processes as well as manage natural resources with a commitment to sustainable development.
Ability to create, promote and manage technological change, produce new scientific knowledge and apply technologies for sustainable rural development.
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