UNIVERSITIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
UNIVERSITIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Knowledge is a key factor for sustainable development. Yet without the appropriate context and applications, knowledge cannot successfully catalyze sustainable development. Therefore education should be considered as an enabling infrastructure for all sectors of the economy, for democracy and for good governance. The challenge for higher education is to innovate traditional learning environments and learning processes in such a way that they not only support the learning process of children and young adults in formal education, but life-long learning, training and informal learning as well. Higher education institutes are challenged to cooperate together in networks that constitute a supportive infrastructure for life-long learners. Cooperation between universities is not enough, however. In order to fulfill their service function at regional, national and international levels as well, universities and higher educational institutes will have to be active nodes in international/national/regional networks with other partners such as primary and secondary schools, vocational education, science centers, small and medium sized companies, chambers of commerce, non-governmental organizations and national /regional governments. Universities are committed to transforming itself from an institution characterized by significant areas of achievement and excellence in sustainability adherence and provision to an institution modeling universities-wide achievement and excellence and, therefore, positioned to make a significant contribution to national and international efforts to embed sustainability in higher education.

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