Societal and environmental transition

How to reconcile social progress and economic efficiency, quality of life and environmental protection, resource conservation and the creation of new energy sources are questions that concern everyone. 

Actions implemented at regional level

Working towards sustainable, supportive and innovative campuses

• Sharing the Campus Vision for 2030
• Ensuring the ecological and social sustainability of all projects
• Meeting the societal aspirations of new generations
• Developing a respectful social policy
• Building an inspiring sustainable campus model
• Building the Transition Roadmap

Actions implemented in the academic field

Providing meaning through training and research that measures up to the challenges of environmental and societal transition

• Training 100% of students in the challenges of the ecological and social transition
• Bringing together research, innovation, dissemination and the region

Education, research, entrepreneurship

• Enrichment and transformation of educational content through a progressive process adapted to the specific characteristics of each type of training course: raising awareness of transition issues and acquisition of knowledge and skills, adopting a multidisciplinary and international perspective to solve complex sustainable development problems.
• Enrichment and transformation of educational methods: project-based teaching, project-based design, decision design, entrepreneurship awareness-raising with CY Entreprendre, project-based doctorate
• Support for multidisciplinary research projects on transition issues, in close connection with the graduate schools’ research areas and specialities: inter-laboratory, inter-institutional, research body, company and local authority projects, sharing scientific culture.
• Valorisation and transfer of knowledge and expertise derived from research with CY Transfer.

Actions implemented in the operational field

Taking action and working together to achieve the 2030 goals

• Ensuring the ecological and social sustainability of all projects
• Managing goal-based actions towards 2030
• Developing a respectful social policy
• Meeting the societal aspirations of new generations

Meeting the challenges of global change from a long-term perspective

• Creation of spaces for the expression of collective awareness of the overall project
• Representative organisation within bodies (particularly in terms of equality between women and men), provision of awareness-raising and training for staff and students on inclusion and inclusive practices, charter of good practices, accessibility of infrastructure and services (disability, international students and researchers, etc.)
• Establishment of codes of ethics