Abstract:

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of people around the world. In 2015, all United Nations Member States approved 17 Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an initiative that establishes a plan to achieve the Goals established within 15 years. Currently, progress is being made in the development of this SDG initiative in many places, generating and implementing actions, strategies and policies to achieve the 17 SDGs.

But tackling the challenges of the SDGs will require new knowledge, new ways of doing things, making tough choices between competing options, and in some cases profound transformations.

Of course, this directly involves Universities, as organizations that promote technological and social progress through research, discovery, creation and adoption of knowledge. But are college students aware of all this? It is they who, in the near future, must develop and support the strategies and actions necessary to meet these objectives. Without them and their support, it is practically impossible to achieve these goals. Therefore, it is essential that university students know the SDGs and what they consist of. But not only that, it is necessary that they are also aware of the importance they have, both for the present and for the future, and of the role that they can play in achieving those objectives, both personally and professionally.

However, university students, in general, say they do not know the Sustainable Development Goals and that the information they have received through various means, including university teaching and social networks, is very scarce. In addition, in achieving the SDGs, they value professional implications less than personal ones.

This article presents the DIASDGES, an Educational Innovation and Improvement Project. This project aims to investigate the degree of knowledge about the SDGs that university students have, as well as the awareness they have towards them, and in this way to be able to propose appropriate training strategies and activities that can integrate the SDGs into university education

Keywords:

Sustainable Development Goals, SDG, Engineering Studies, Teaching-Learning activities.