SETTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN A UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT

On September 25, 2015, world leaders adopted a set of global goals to eradicate poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people, as part of a new sustainable development schedule. Each objective has specific goals that must be achieved in the next 15 years. The 2030 Agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 associated purposes, which reflect the scope and ambition of this universal plan. The objectives range from the elimination of poverty and hunger to the fight against climate change, including quality education, gender equality, the defence of the environment or the responsible production and consumption. These objectives provide an opportunity for countries and their societies to embark on a new path to improve the people's lives, without leaving anyone behind. SDGs reflect the complexity of global development, emphasizing its social, economic and environmental dimensions. Therefore, these goals are integrated and indivisible, i.e., advancing in the achievement of one of them is practically impossible without advancing in the others. SDGs represent a path towards sustainable development in which common action and innovation are key, not only among States, as it had happened with previous international development agendas, but also with the participation of new development actors, such as the private sector, youth, civil society and academia, among others. Everyone must do their part. The total implementation of the 2030 Agenda will generate a situation of complete gain, for the generations of today and those that will come tomorrow. In the present study, it is shown how the gradual implementation of some of the SDGs in a university environment has been approached. The main purpose of this work is to carry out a work of dissemination of both the 2030 Agenda and the lived experience, so that it also becomes useful to other surroundings that look for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.