Resumen de Improving engineering educators’ sustainability competencies by using competency maps.The EDINSOST project
Fermín Sánchez Carracedo, Jordi Segalàs Coral, Eva María Vidal López, Carme Martin, Joan Climent, David López Álvarez, Jose María Cabré García
EDINSOST is a project aimed at tackling the challenges facing society. It is funded by the Spanish R&D+i Program. Theobjective of the project is to establish a framework to facilitate the training of graduates capable of leading the resolution ofchallenges in our society through the integration of sustainability training in the Spanish University System. For thetraining of graduates, it is essential to train teachers beforehand, since most of them do not possess competencies insustainability. The EDINSOST project involves fifty-five researchers from ten Spanish Universities. It encompasses fiveengineering degrees and three degrees related to the three dimensions of sustainability, given their great impact on theshort-term challenges confronting society. In view of its multiplier and long-term effect, the project also includes theBachelor and Master’s degrees of five Education degrees, because graduates from these courses will be the future teachersof new generations of citizens. To achieve its objectives, the project has defined a sustainability competency map forthirteen degrees in the fields of education and engineering. On the basis of this map, the most appropriate didactic strategiesfor sustainability training will be established, the state of the sustainability training requirements in teachers and studentswill be diagnosed, and finally, proposals will be made for training both groups. In this paper, the objectives of theEDINSOST project are presented, as well as some results of the first objective: the sustainability competency map forengineering degrees. The map is vital for defining the training needs of teachers and students and is easily adaptable to anyengineering degree.
