UCP students in Porto provide training on Sustainable Development Goals

The Unit of Integral Development of the Person of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto (UDIP), through the project CAtólica SOlidária (CASO), promoted throughout the semester an extracurricular activity with the theme "Educating for Sustainable Development Goals". 

This initiative responds to the challenge of institutionalizing the Learning-Service methodology, launched nationally by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa(UCP), through the project CApS - UCP and Learning-Service: Innovation and Social Responsibility. This methodology values the active participation of students and community members, and reflection on the experience.

Within this extracurricular unit, about 15 students from different Academic Units of the Regional Center of Porto received training on the topic and on the pedagogy of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim of creating formative moments so that they themselves can disseminate and make others aware of this theme.

In the last few weeks, the students, who joined the experience on a voluntary basis, have been organizing training sessions with different target audiences: high schools, students and volunteers from the Catholic Universities of Angola and Pernambuco, and even students from the Catholic University of Pernambuco. The 15 sessions promoted correspond to a total of about 25 hours of training on the SDGs and their impact on society. 

We challenged two students to share their experiences in this initiative. They are two testimonials - from Ema Aires and Gonçalo Morais - that reinforce the growing importance of the Sustainable Development Goals nowadays.

Learn more about the students' testimonials here.