The Edinsost Project: Implementing The Sustainable Development Goals At University Level

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.