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SDG4U

SDG4U key priority is to stimulate innovative learning and teaching practices through engaging SDGs to transformative education and sustainability practices in universities. The project will support and enhance the implementation of SDGs in higher education by embedding sustainability across teaching, research, operations, and community outreach.


The project tackles the following goals:

  • To identify modules/courses that include SDGs in existing academic material
  • To create a mapping tool for SDGs in Higher Education
  • To develop initiatives on SDG mapping tools and standardize good sustainability practices
  • To shape potential modules to be included in existing/new courses to educate students on SDGs implementation
  • To create pedagogical material for a seminar and train SDG facilitators
  • To enhance the participation of ‘learners’ in the decision-making processes

The project activities will enable access to knowledge and skills required for understanding and promoting sustainable development, through formal education, life-long learning programs and initiatives with emphasis on promoting equality, on developing a culture of peace, non-violence and fairness at all levels.

Full Name

Engaging SDGs for Transformative Education and Enhanced Sustainability in Universities

Coordinator

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Partners

University of Murcia
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
The American College of Greece Research Center
University College Cork – National University of Ireland
UNIMED

Budget

Programme​

€ 400.000,00

Programme​

Erasmus+, KA220-HED – Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education

Project Duration​

Start Date: December 31, 2022
End Date: December 31, 2025

Project No.​

2022-1-EL01-KA220-HED-000088776

Contact Person​

Andreas Papandreou pesd@econ.uoa.gr

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

 

Με τη χρηματοδότηση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Οι απόψεις και οι γνώμες που διατυπώνονται εκφράζουν αποκλειστικά τις απόψεις των συντακτών και δεν αντιπροσωπεύουν κατ’ανάγκη τις απόψεις της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης ή του Ευρωπαϊκού Εκτελεστικού Οργανισμού Εκπαίδευσης και Πολιτισμού (EACEA). Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και ο EACEA δεν μπορούν να θεωρηθούν υπεύθυνοι για τις εκφραζόμενες απόψεις.

Andreas Papandreou, Professor of Environmental Economics

 

in the Department of Economics 

of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

Director of Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lad

Andreas Papandreou is Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his B.Sc. in Economics from the University of London, Queen Mary College and his M.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics. He became a Doctor of Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford University, in 1990. 

Dr. Papandreou has over 30 years of academic experience in various Universities, including University College London and Harvard. His research and published work are mostly in the fields of environmental economics, institutional economics, political economy, and welfare economics. Among his publications are “Externality and Institutions” (1998) Oxford University Press. He is a member of the Climate Change Impacts Study Committee (CCISC) of the Bank of Greece that completed the first comprehensive study of the impacts of climate change on Greece, prepared the Greek National Adaptation Plan and recently published the Economics of Climate Change that he co-authored. 

He is the Director of the MSc in Philosophy and Management at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the Director of the Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lab (PESD) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Member of the Center of Excellence on Climate Change – Adaptation and Mitigation, NKUA. He is Co-chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece (SDSN Greece). The goal of SDSN is to promote knowledge based sustainable development solutions by engaging the academic community with civil society, local and national governments, and the business community. PESD and SDSN have been involved in many important initiatives promoting SDGs. 

Involvement in recent funded research projects focused on sustainable development issues include: Energy Governance for Sustainable Development (ENERGO), is funded by the EEA Grants 2014-2021; H2020 WATER-2014-2015/H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage, «DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries», GA No. 690268; SIMRA – Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas. H2020-ISIB-2014-2015/H2020-ISIB-2015-2 GA No. 677622; BRIGAID – BRIdges the GAp for Innovations in Disaster resilience. European Union Horizon 2020. https://en.econ.uoa.gr/staff/teaching_and_research_staff/