Sustainable development goals and implications in Higher Education: application to an Institution of Higher Education of applied Social Sciences
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The first decade of the twenty-first century is rich in the production of guidance documents, in particular emanating from the United Nations, for a more responsible education attuned to the challenges of the new millennium. Beyond these documents, we highlight two central ideas: a clear reinforcement and commitment with the obligation to think about new models of action that guarantee a Sustainable Development and the awareness that Higher Education is a privileged space for an action that promotes the awareness of the new priorities, to be assumed by the future leaders to guarantee this same Development.
From the reflection presented at "Challenges and Opportunities for the communication of the organizations in the Sustainable Development Goals" (Fernandes, 2018), this article is now analyzing the specific implications that these documents can have at the level of Higher Education. At the same time, the basis of a pilot study to be implemented at the School of Education of the Coimbra Polytechnic Institute (2018/19) is set out to apply new learning strategies for Sustainable Development, starting from of a reflection on the Sustainable Development Goals (of the UN and to be fulfilled between 2016/30).
The methodology used for the preparation of the pilot study, presented here, is the content analysis of the descriptive of the professional profile of the alumni of the ESEC / IPC degrees, available on the ESEC website, seeking to translate it in terms of leadership exercised by these same professionals. For the construction of the pilot study, the methodology of the online questionnaire was also used to determine which Sustainable Development Goals are most addressed to each degree, thus outlining a specific Agenda for priority areas of intervention.