2nd GUNi International Conference on SDGs: Higher Education & Science Take Action Summary Report 2nd GUNi International Conference on SDGs: Higher Education & Science Take Action Summary Report Downloadable open-content version available at: www.guninetwork.org Credits Credits 5 2nd GUNi International Conference on SDGs: Higher GUNi 2020 Education & Science Take Action. First Edition Barcelona, September 2020 GUNi President Maria José Figueras With the Support of Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (ACCD) Editorial Team Josep M. Vilalta – Director Graphic Design & Printing Núria Jové – Head of Projects Mètode Victoria Gómez – Project Officer Marta Cayetano – Communications Officer ISBN 978-84-09-23375-5 GUNi Group of Experts on SDGs and Higher Education Contact Ghada Ahmadein [email protected] Axel Didriksson Carme Gual Thomas Jørgensen Akpezi Ogbuigwe Arnau Queralt Charles W. Richardson Orlando Sáenz Rajesh Tandon Individual or collective authors are responsible for the choice and presentation of the facts, findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in their articles, which do not necessarily reflect the views of GUNi, UNESCO, the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP), or other institutions that support this project. The designations used and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on behalf of GUNi concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of the authorities of such, or concerning the endorsement or acceptance of such opinions. Contents Contents 7 Foreword 13 Maria José Figueras (President, GUNi and Catalan Association of Public Universities & Rector, Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Preface 15 Francesc Pedró (Director, IESALC-UNESCO) GUNi Taking Action for the 2030 Agenda 17 Josep M. Vilalta (Director, GUNi & Executive Secretary, Catalan Association of Public Universities) PART I – Key topics, key voices 21 The Contribution of Higher Education and Science in the Transformation Towards Sustainable Development: What Is Effective and Fair? Eeva Furman (Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Finland) 27 Gender Equality in Education: The Key to Sustainable Development Alice Ochanda (UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, Kenya) 32 Achieving the SDGs and Realizing Human Rights: is Higher Education Fit for Purpose? The Links between Human Rights and Sustainable Development Birgitte Feiring (The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark) 36 Rankings and SDGs: Should HEIs Be Ranked for their SDG Performance? Ellen Hazelkorn (BH Associates education consultants, Ireland) PART II – Integrating Student Leadership in Sustainable Actions 39 The Sustainable Water Initiative: A Case Study of How the Higher Education Community Can Foster SDGs, Student Leadership and Innovation Hammam Alkezmazy (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) 43 Responsible Futures: A Supported Change Framework for Integrating Sustainability and the SDGs in Higher Education Meg Baker, Quinn Runkle (Students Organising for Sustainability SOS-UK) and Alison Greig (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 50 Student Initiatives to Achieve Gender Equality in Haryana, India: A Case Study from Bhagat Phool Singh Women’s University Manju Panwar (Bhagat Phool Singh Women’s University, India) 8 2nd GUNi International Conference on SDGs: Higher Education & Science Take Action. Summary Report 56 Transformation of an Abundant Site to Be a Green Education Hub, Achieve SDGs, and Adapt to Climate Change in the City of Conegliano, Italy Mohsen Aboulnaga, Haidy Mousa, May Elhadidi, Hadil Abdelhafez (Cairo University, Egypt) and Pietro Tonini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) PART III – Revising Institutional Strategies in the Context of the 2030 Agenda 67 Powering Local Sustainable Development Goal Projects Using a Zero-Energy Campus Building Daniel A. Wubah, Guilbert Brown and Chris Steuer (Millersville University, USA) 72 Living Learning Lab for Javeriana’s Students José María Castillo Ariza and Angela María Forero Orozco (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) 76 Enhancing the Role of Arab Gulf State Universities in Achieving SDGs: The Case of Sultan Qaboos University Khalaf Al Abri and Baderya Alhadi (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) 81 Revising Institutional Strategies in the Context of the 2030 Agenda to Integrate Sustainable Development Goals into University Policy: The Experience at the URV Maria José Figueras and Josep Ribalta (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) 85 The Planetary Wellbeing Project as a Cross-Cutting Strategy to Achieve the SDGs Mònica Figueras and Ester Oliveras (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) PART IV – Key Competencies Approaches for Sustainability 91 Campus Action: Testing Sustainable Development Goals on Higher Education Students Lourdes Guàrdia, Estel Paloma (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) and Màrian Buil-Fabregà (Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 97 Aroundersenseofpurpose.eu where ESD Competences and the SDGs Meet Gerben de Vries, André de Hamer (Duurzame PABO, the Netherlands), Paul Vare, Rick Millican (University of Gloucestershire, UK) and Carlien Nijdam (HZ University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands) Contents 9 101 Transformative Evaluation for Sustainability Educators: The Experience of a Competence-Based Educational Research Project Francesca Farioli and Michela Mayer (Italian Association for Sustainability Science IASS, Italy) PART V - Developing Evaluation Tools for Change 107 Local SDG Indicators: A Collaborative Proposal to Monitor the SDGs and Contribute to Local Appropriation of the 2030 Agenda Maria Cortada (Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan, Spain) 113 Making Connections between the Institutional Quality Assessment and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal of Quality Indicators for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Daniella Tilbury (Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar, UK), Marta Fonolleda and Resma Punjabi (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education of Andorra - AQUA) PART VI - Social Impact through SDGs: Transforming Communities 121 The Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Teaching, Research and Organization at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences Silvia Udwary (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria) 127 Weaving Communities, the Missing Link for the Social Impact of Universities: Using Network Analysis to Study the Formation of Communities at the UPC Ginevra Marina Lazzerini, Didac Ferrer-Balas, Pere Losantos, Martí Rosas-Casals, Eva Vendrell and Eva Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain) 133 Fontys and SDGs on Stage: a Content and Internship Platform for SDGs and Higher Education Elke van der Valk (Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands) 136 Universities’ Social Responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Paraguayan Experience Eduardo Velázquez (Universidad Iberoamericana, Paraguay) 10 2nd GUNi International Conference on SDGs: Higher Education & Science Take Action. Summary Report 141 Visions of European Climate Landscapes for 2030: Developing Climate Change Adaptation Scenarios in TeRRIFICA Summer Schools Norbert Steinhaus, Laura Steinhaus and Michaela Shields (WILA Bonn, Germany), Tanja Adnadevic (CPN, Serbia) Karin Bokop (Science Shop Vechta/Cloppenburg, Germany), Minerva Campos (Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Spain), Marta Cayetano and Núria Jové (Catalan Association of Public Universities & GUNi, Spain), Charlotte Coquard (Sciences Citoyennes, France), Joanna Morawska-Jancelewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland), Kate Sposab (Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University, Belarus) Part VII – Innovative Social Engagement through Service Learning 149 Service-Learning in Environmental Sciences: Teaching in Social Responsibility Mar Grasa, Mireia Esparza, Enric Tello, MªÀngels Alió (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and Roc Padró (Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies -IERMB, Spain) 153 Final Degree Projects: from Looking at the World through the Window to Starting to Change it. A Powerful Tool to Develop Sustainable Development Goals Teresa Sauras-Yera, Mar Grasa, Gustavo Llorente, Marina Blas, Silvia Busquets, Marta Camps, Josep Maria de Anta, Cristina Madrid and Francesc Oliva (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Part VIII – Teacher Training: Seeds for Transformative Competencies 157 Implementing Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Karin Båge, Jennifer Valcke (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Natalie Jellinek (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) Joanne Pagèze (University of Bordeaux, France) and Thushari Welikala (St George’s University of London, UK) 165 Professional Development of the University Teacher: Mentoring as a Strategy for Training in Competences for Sustainability María de Fátima Poza-Vilches, Abigail López-Alcarria, José Gutiérrez-Pérez and María Teresa Pozo-Llorente (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Contents 11 Part IX – Responsible Research for the SDGs 173 The Affordances of Design Thinking and Online Collaboration Tools in Environmental Problem Solving Diane Pruneau, Viktor Freiman, Michel Léger, Anne-Marie Laroche (Université de Moncton, Canada), Vincent Richard (Laval University, Canada) and Liliane Dionne (University of Ottawa, Canada) 179 Engaging Students in Participatory Action-Oriented Research for Sustainability M. Beth Page and Catherine Etmanski (Royal Roads University, Canada) Part X – Regional perspectives 185 E Pluribus Unum for SDGs: Galician Universities