Universidade Católica Portuguesa launches innovative strategic initiative: "SDG Curricular Units"

The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at creating a global model to eradicate poverty, promote prosperity and well-being, protect the environment and combat climate change.

To raise awareness of these common and global challenges, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa launched, as part of its Strategic Development Plan, the innovative Strategic Initiative called "SDG Curricular Units". This initiative aims to introduce in the academic curriculum of 1st cycle students, subjects specifically dedicated to the study and understanding of several SDGs.

Scheduled to start at the beginning of the second semester of the current academic year (2021/22), the "SDG Curricular Unit - Humanity's major challenges" will cover, in a first experimental phase, SDG #13 (Climate Action), due to its importance within all the grand challenges.

For the 2022/23 academic year, three more ODS Curricular Units will be developed, which may include students from other study cycles.

 

 

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