Background: Higher education and the SDGs
Sustainable development is the central theme in the European Green Deal and in the Paris Agreement at Climate Change as well as in many other EU policy papers. Higher education has a special role to play in sustainable development, environmental protection and action against climate change. Despite this, higher education institutions are only mentioned twice in the 169 targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and individual contributions to the SDGs are even less evident. This disparity in relevance and visibility presents both a challenge and an opportunity