General objective
- Develop joint research and educational activities, in order to ensure education for sustainable and solidary development (ESSD).
Specific objectives
- Explore the current situation with regard to ESSD within the two national academic contexts (RO, IS);
- Study and refine the main objectives of research focused on ESSD;
- Study the possibility of combining humanistic and social approaches in an interdisciplinary research on ESSD;
- Identify new methodologies aiming at raising awareness and mobilizing students in favour of ESSD;
- Assess and analyse the presence of ESSD or possibilities to introduce ESSD in the curriculum of the two universities;
- Develop a competency-based approach on ESSD, starting from a joint list of transversal skills that foster the performance of ESSD;
- Evaluate the ESSD-related skills of students;
- Explore the potential real-life impact of ESSD;
- Explore how ESSD helps shape citizens in the spirit of living together.