HOW TO BOOST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION?
HOW TO BOOST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION?

Summary/Abstract: The targets of sustainable development are enormous and partly abstract. Higher education organizations in many countries have adopted many of the sustainable development goals. The aim of present study is to produce innovations for strategic planning in the field of sustainable development in higher education organization. The study problem is: How to boost Sustainable Development in Higher Education? Higher education consists of Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland. All findings of sustainable development were registered and classified to three classes based on the targets of Finland´s government, which are Ecological sustainability, Economic sustainability and Social and cultural sustainability. Universities have succeeded more concretely to introduce global targets of sustainable development. The findings were partly multidimensional. The number of findings in both organizations is biggest in the target Social and cultural sustainability. There was no finding of the value of equality, especially the equality between genders.

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