Educación y Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Valencia: construyendo futuro desde el pasado

Higher education requires institutional structures that support the principles of Sustainability and put them into practice. It is also necessary a faculty that is motivated and able to permeate the way they teach and the subjects they teach from criteria and values related to sustainability. The context of this work is education and research for sustainability (ERfS) at the University of Valencia (UV) in the last 12 years. The method used has been the Analysis of documents with criteria of relevance, completeness and topicality, has allowed to find the necessary information to develop the proposed study. The purpose is to build a story of the trajectory that the ERfS has followed in the UV to be able to propose a future perspective from the perspective of the SDGs. The conclusions are: a) that sustainability requires political decisions that allow the participation of the different university levels in the definition of institutional strategies that respond to the objectives and values related to sustainability and b) The approval of SDGs 2030, from a critical perspective, is a new lever to move forward on the road undertaken more than 20 years ago, because it specifies in the 17 SDGs ways to work on all aspects of sustainability that allow us to overcome some of the obstacles to progress towards a more sustainable future. Keywords: Sustainability Education, Sustainability and Higher Education, Training of trainers