Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education

Dear Colleagues,

Education for sustainable Development (ESD) plays a key role in Higher Education degrees. University students must learn to think long-term and understand that in order to achieve a better world, they must situate their future professional activities within the framework of sustainable solutions. To this end, future graduates must be aware of the complexities of the social environment in which they are developing their work, and of the need to harmonize short-term improvements with sustainable development based on the long term. ESD is essential for the training of agents of change and transformation that can promote policies, strategies, and methods that enable a more sustainable future to be built.

ESD has mainly been addressed in Higher Education in three different ways: (1) introducing specific sustainability subjects into the curriculum, (2) including learning objectives related to sustainability in technical subjects, and (3) applying the criterion of sustainability in the final degree thesis.

This Topical Collection will gather original research in the field of ESD in Higher Education focused on introducing ESD in Higher Education curricula, assessing students’ sustainability competencies, and evaluating the impacts of ESD in people's daily lives.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to the following:

• introducing ethics in Higher Education;
• deontological principles related to sustainability in Higher Education;
• developing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Higher Education subjects;
• developing SDG in bachelor's and master's theses,
• how to reduce the human carbon footprint thanks to Higher Education;
• how to improve people's daily lives through Higher Education;
• accessibility, ergonomics and security in technological solutions;
• living labs and campus labs for sustainability education in universities
• teaching methodologies to introduce sustainability and social commitment in Higher Education.
• inter- and transdisciplinarity for sustainability in higher education

Dr. Fermin Sanchez-Carracedo
Dr. Jordi Segalàs Coral
Dr. Gemma Tejedor
Collection Editors

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