EU and UNESCO Educational Initiatives Integration for Environmental Education on Sustainable Water Resources Management

United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals set the policy priorities for confronting the economic, social and environmental risks that our planet is facing, with equitable education and clean water and sanitation to be designated among these goals. As the main United Nations organization focusing on education, science and culture, UNESCO fully supports the implementation of the goals that lie within its respective fields of competence, such as education and natural sciences, as well as triggers frameworks and programmes such as the Education and Sustainable Development 2030 and the UNESCO's UNITWIN and Chairs towards this direction. In European Union, the well-established education programmes, i.e. the ERASMUS+ programme, play an important role on the enhancement of education systems with the perspective of sustainable development not only at the Union 's level but at the global one. The specific work presents the potentiality of integrating frameworks that are supported by different international organizations and programmes for achieving the enhancement of higher education with regard to sustainable environmental management. We demonstrated the water resources management problems in three heteroclites geographical areas of the word and the way that integrated actions of higher education institutions with the UNESCO Chair INWEB, under the umbrella of ERASMUS+ programmes, deal with the specific objectives. A key issue for the successful implementation of the programmes was the willingness of the partners to reform their educational structures and adopt innovative solutions that promote water resources sustainability.