The EDINSOST Project: Implementing
the Sustainable Development Goals
at University Level
Silvia Albareda-Tiana, Jorge Ruíz-Morales, Pilar Azcárate,
Rocío Valderrama-Hernández and José Manuel Múñoz
Abstract This article presents a review of the generic competencies
in sustainability in Higher Education (HE). It provides a compilation of these
sustainability competencies as an instrument to facilitate their assessment in university studies. Within the framework of the European Higher Education Area
(EHEA), the Bologna process proposed working by competencies. It will not
be an easy task to implement these competencies, together with the global challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at university level. Higher
education institutions (HEIs) have a key role to play in the implementation of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development adopted at the United Nations, and
developing sustainability competencies is a way to promote it. This paper presents
the first result of the EDINSOST project: a competency map on sustainability. The
map has been developed within the EDINSOST project, whose objective is to train
graduates capable of resolving the challenges facing our society by integrating
training in sustainability competencies into the Spanish University System (SUS).
At eight Spanish universities, this map has been successfully adapted to several
undergraduate degrees in education (Primary Education, Pre-School Education,
Pedagogy and Social Education) and a master degree programme in Environmental
Education.
Keywords Competency map on sustainability · Education for sustainable
development · Sustainable development goals · Higher education · Sustainability
training
S. Albareda-Tiana (B)
Faculty of Education, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Terré 11-19,
08017 Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: salbareda@uic.es
J. Ruíz-Morales · R. Valderrama-Hernández
Faculty of Education, Universidad de Sevilla, Pirotecnia s/n, 41013 Seville, Spain
e-mail: jruiz2@us.es
P. Azcárate
Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
J. M. Múñoz
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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the Sustainable Development Goals
at University Level
Silvia Albareda-Tiana, Jorge Ruíz-Morales, Pilar Azcárate,
Rocío Valderrama-Hernández and José Manuel Múñoz
Abstract This article presents a review of the generic competencies
in sustainability in Higher Education (HE). It provides a compilation of these
sustainability competencies as an instrument to facilitate their assessment in university studies. Within the framework of the European Higher Education Area
(EHEA), the Bologna process proposed working by competencies. It will not
be an easy task to implement these competencies, together with the global challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at university level. Higher
education institutions (HEIs) have a key role to play in the implementation of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development adopted at the United Nations, and
developing sustainability competencies is a way to promote it. This paper presents
the first result of the EDINSOST project: a competency map on sustainability. The
map has been developed within the EDINSOST project, whose objective is to train
graduates capable of resolving the challenges facing our society by integrating
training in sustainability competencies into the Spanish University System (SUS).
At eight Spanish universities, this map has been successfully adapted to several
undergraduate degrees in education (Primary Education, Pre-School Education,
Pedagogy and Social Education) and a master degree programme in Environmental
Education.
Keywords Competency map on sustainability · Education for sustainable
development · Sustainable development goals · Higher education · Sustainability
training
S. Albareda-Tiana (B)
Faculty of Education, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Terré 11-19,
08017 Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: salbareda@uic.es
J. Ruíz-Morales · R. Valderrama-Hernández
Faculty of Education, Universidad de Sevilla, Pirotecnia s/n, 41013 Seville, Spain
e-mail: jruiz2@us.es
P. Azcárate
Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
J. M. Múñoz
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15604-6_13
193