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: Received: 14 March 2024 / Approved: 15 March 2024 / Online: 15 March 2024 (07:42:04 CET)
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Posadas de Julián, P.; Verdejo Lucas, C.; De Rueda Villén, B.; Haro-Soler, M.D.M.; Gijón Puerta, J.; Cámara Aguilera, E.; García de Quesada, M. Bridging the Gap between Academia and Society: Research, Training and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development. Preprints2024, 2024030894. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0894.v1
Posadas de Julián, P.; Verdejo Lucas, C.; De Rueda Villén, B.; Haro-Soler, M.D.M.; Gijón Puerta, J.; Cámara Aguilera, E.; García de Quesada, M. Bridging the Gap between Academia and Society: Research, Training and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development. Preprints 2024, 2024030894. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0894.v1
Posadas de Julián, P.; Verdejo Lucas, C.; De Rueda Villén, B.; Haro-Soler, M.D.M.; Gijón Puerta, J.; Cámara Aguilera, E.; García de Quesada, M. Bridging the Gap between Academia and Society: Research, Training and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development. Preprints2024, 2024030894. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0894.v1
APA Style
Posadas de Julián, P., Verdejo Lucas, C., De Rueda Villén, B., Haro-Soler, M.D.M., Gijón Puerta, J., Cámara Aguilera, E., & García de Quesada, M. (2024). Bridging the Gap between Academia and Society: Research, Training and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0894.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Posadas de Julián, P., Elvira Cámara Aguilera and Mercedes García de Quesada. 2024 "Bridging the Gap between Academia and Society: Research, Training and Strategic Alliances for Sustainable Development" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0894.v1
Abstract
We are currently facing a potential ‘polycrisis’, a critical inflection point that requires a whole-of-society response aimed at building collective foresight and preparedness for short-, medium-, and long-term risks. The role of higher education institutions and social stakeholders is decisive to make an impact. This paper depicts the alignment of academia, governance, and industry with the aim to challenge, inspire, and encourage universities to go beyond commodified courses and mere employability, enhance student growth and bind macro-scale measures that lead to a sustainable future. A modest teaching innovation project has served as a transforming lever, with the private sector joining in, to create a platform that reaches more than 50 000 undergraduate students and teaching staff. The resulting structure, rooted in the University’s strategic plan, has served to channel local and regional initiatives, establish effective partnerships with broad social members, raise awareness and promote actions to advance in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals. Chronology, materials and methodology, together with a description of the different courses, programmes and actions are provided. The paper concludes with some recommendations for future research, policy and cooperation among stakeholders. Research methodology posted on clinicaltrials.gov under ID NCT04392869, NCT05598944, and NCT05775978.
Keywords
curriculum innovation in Higher Education; inner development goals; education for sustainable development; university governance; LifeComp; GreenComp; employability; university-industry strategic partnerships
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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