SDG Curricular Units
SDG Curricular Units
"SDGs: Humanity's Great Challenges" is an innovative initiative that the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) launched in 2022, as part of its Strategic Development Plan for 2025, for a shared and collective awareness of these common and global challenges. Its aim is to introduce courses dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the undergraduate and master's academic curricula, reinforcing UCP's commitment to pursuing an educational agenda aligned with the United Nations' Academic Impact commitments and the Principles for Responsible Management Education.
What are the themes of the SDG Curricular Units?
"SDG 13 Curricular Unit - Humanity's Great Challenges" - Climate Action
The ODS 13 course is taught online, in Portuguese, by five lecturers from different faculties of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. It confers 3 ECTS totalling 18 hours divided into 6 sessions.
"SDG 14 Curricular Unit" - Protecting Marine Life
ODS 14 is taught in English over a total of 10 sessions, conferring 5 ECTS.
"SDG 16 Curricular Unit" - Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions
SDG 16 is taught online and in English, and discusses topics such as the role of companies in reducing corruption, how to ensure inclusive measures, what effective institutions are, among others. It confers 3 ECTS totalling 18 hours divided into 6 sessions.
It is taught by 4 academic units: the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the Institute of Political Studies, the Porto School of the Faculty of Law and the Católica Porto Business School.
"Our aim will be to ensure that higher education provides the country with more than technically qualified professionals, but that it trains people with a broad vision of society's problems, with critical thinking, aesthetic sensitivity and the capacity to act as citizens in order to bring about a Portugal that aspires".
"The courses provide students with an integrated and holistic approach to the challenges facing the different dimensions of human life using the universal language of the SDGs. It gives them a clear understanding of the urgent call to action for humanity."