The transversality of the SDGS in university studies: a multidisciplinary experience

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an ambitious universal project with which humanity faces global and existential challenges. Under the slogan of “Leaving no one behind”, its 17 objectives include transcendental issues that range from the eradication of poverty to climate action, through access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy or sustained economic growth, inclusive and sustainable and ending with the reduction of inequalities between countries or the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies. From this perspective, universities, like the rest of the actors, must also play an active and decisive role due to their role as generators and transmitters of knowledge. This is the purpose of this educational innovation project that, through new learning methodologies, will lead to contribute to this purpose. It is an innovative and multidisciplinary experience implemented during several academic years in four different degrees at the European University of Valencia. More than a hundred students have had the opportunity to participate in the project, obtaining highly satisfactory results and an evident improvement in their knowledge and skills after having actively participated. The project, based on alliances, has enabled students, as future leaders and managers, not only to know and be able to respond to these important challenges, but also to acquire a series of skills, the so-called soft skills, that are essential today.