The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Applied to Higher Education. A Project Based Learning Proposal Integrated with the SDGs in Bachelor Degrees at the Campus Alcoy (UPV)

Abstract

[EN] The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by Union Nations were defined in Rio+20 Conference. These SDGs are 17, and they define 169 different goals that countries have to reach in 2030. The awareness and implication of people about the importance of the SDGs enable the fulfilment of these goals in a satisfactory way and therefore, the university community must take part of these objectives and integrate the SDGs within their curricula in the different bachelor and master degrees. In light of this, students must also integrate the specific competences, outcomes competences and SDGs in their learning process. To reach this integration, it is necessary that lecturers develop active methodologies in which students work competences and SDGs jointly. This article shows a proposal that is being developed in the Campus of Alcoy at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) to define a Project Based Learning (PBL) model integrating the SDGs. The proposal shows how PBL can support students and lecturers to promote the teaching of key competences for sustainability that are relevant for the SDGs. The article discusses the concept of PBL and SDGs; accounts for the general students¿ capabilities, highlights the integration of SDGs in the PBL methodology into Bachelor and Master Degrees curricula at the Campus Alcoy (UPV). Moreover, it shows an alignment analysis performed between the SDGs and a PBL model in a case study.