Abstract:

Contributing to the improvement of society is part of the commitment and social responsibility that Universities have as public entities. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), marks the capacities and development in the areas of social commitment. Universities play a very important role in the fulfillment of this Agenda due to their responsibility in the fields of education, research, development, innovation and knowledge transfer to society. This raises a wide range of monitoring indicators for the evaluation of the different objectives achievements.

During these last years, different methodologies have been developed that allow students to advance in their technical, scientific, professional knowledge, and at the same time, they have managed to improve their skills in transversal competences. It is time to take the next step: working on and implementing the SDGs, since action in one area affects the results in other areas.

In many subjects, activities are worked on that already reflect the scope of some SDGs in an indirect way. However, students are not aware of this; even teachers are not aware of it. With this work, we intend to make a reflection on the SDGs that are worked in our subjects, or those that we could work, with activities that we have already developed, so that the students reach a high degree of satisfaction, awareness of the SDGs and in turn work the transversal competences.
To this end, we have analyzed the current state of the subjects of three engineering subjects in terms of SDGs. Considering that the starting point of the analyzed subjects is different from each other, several different methodologies have been followed to determine the starting point to integrate SDGs with transversal competences.

The authors are grateful for the financial support of the Vicerrectorado de Profesorado y Ordenación Académica of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Project PIME/22-23/336) and the Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universitat Politècnica de València (EICE INTEGRAL).

Keywords:

Sustainable Development Goals, methodologies, engineering subjects.