Luiss
University
Sustainability Plan

Our commitment in the field	
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External context	
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Internal context - The basis on which we build	
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SWOT Analysis	
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The Sustainability Plan: our path towards a sustainable future	
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Areas of intervention	
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Didactics - Student Learning and Experiences	
13
Faculty Scientific Research	
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Facilities & Campus Operations	
15
People & Culture	
16
Communication & Engagement	
17
Diversity & Inclusion	
18
Our promises, Luiss 2030	
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Annex 1	
Sustainability KPI	
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Annex 2	
Sustainability project	
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Annex 3	
Teaching benchmark	
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Annex 4	
Economics	
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Contents

Taking care of the world that surrounds 
and supports us means
taking care of ourselves.
But we need to turn into
a “we” that shares a Home.
Pope Francis, Encyclical “Fratelli tutti”

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Our commitment in the field
Our three-year investment: 
51.015.805 €
Involve 100% of students in at least one social, economic or 
environmental sustainability training experience
Increase funding by 20% each year 
for research on a competitive basis in the field of sustainability
Abolish the gender pay gap and promote  
a perfectly inclusive culture
Be a community leader by working together  
for the benefit of the society
Be carbon neutral by 2025
Return to the top 10 universities in the Green Metric Ranking
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“In essence, sustainable development is a 
process of change in which the exploitation  
of resources, the direction of investments,  
the orientation of technological development; 
and institutional change are all in harmony 
and enhance both current and future potential 
to meet human needs and aspirations.”  
(Report of the World Commission  
on Environment and Development:  
Our Common Future, 1987)
The path towards sustainable development 
has started at an international level since 
the last decades of the last century through 
fundamental steps such as the publication of 
the Club of Rome’s Report on the limits of the 
development , the creation of the Commission 
for the Environment and Development, 
which had among its main objectives that of 
proposing long-term environmental strategies 
to achieve sustainable development by the 
year 2000, with the drafting of the United 
Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in 
September 2000, which committed world 
leaders to achieving the 8 United Nations 
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 
2015. Precisely 2015 represented a turning 
point boosting momentum on sustainability 
issues and on the concept that sustainable 
development concerns everyone and is the 
most important contemporary challenge that 
no one can afford to miss out on. Indeed, 
2015 was the year of the Paris Agreement on 
Climate, of the Encyclical Laudato Si’ and the 
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 
promoted by the UN.
In December 2019, the increasing impact of the 
climate crisis led the President of the European 
Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to present 
the European Green Deal that aims to make 
Europe the first continent with zero climate 
impact by 2050. “The pandemic, and the 
subsequent economic crisis, prompted the EU 
to formulate a coordinated response both at 
the cyclical level, with huge economic support 
packages adopted by individual Member 
States, and structurally, in particular with the 
launch of the Next Generation EU programme 
(NGEU) in July 2020. The Next Generation EU 
marks a sea change for the EU.”1
For Italy, the NGEU represents an unmissable 
opportunity for development, investment and 
reform.
Indeed, in this context, the National Recovery 
and Resilience Plan (PNRR) represents an 
extraordinary opportunity for economic 
recovery and sustainable development for 
our country, structured around 3 strategic 
axes shared at European level: digitalization 
and innovation, ecological transition and 
social inclusion. The PNRR is structured 
around 6 Missions: digitalization, innovation, 
competitiveness and culture; green revolution 
and ecological transition; infrastructure for 
sustainable mobility; education and research; 
inclusion and cohesion; health.
The PNRR embraces the system ratio 
promoted by the 2030 Agenda, which 
considers sustainability in its 3 dimensions 
(social, economic and environmental), and 
identifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals 
(SDGs) showing how each is closely connected 
to all others.
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were 
dramatic and, after an initial improvement 
in some indicators, resulted in a sharp 
slowdown in progress towards the Sustainable 
Development Goals, with significant 
repercussions at all levels. In particular, 
social and economic inequalities within 
countries and between countries have grown, 
representing a further risk for the multilateral 
actions necessary to ensure greater 
sustainability for everyone.2
Education and training are a powerful means 
of countering the degradation that humanity is 
witnessing. “Inequalities increasingly depend 
on the access and use of knowledge and 
concern all dimensions of our lives: economic 
and work; social, through access to basic 
services and common wealth (environment, 
landscape, natural resources, urban spaces 
and knowledge) and their quality; that of 
consumption (of primary goods, credit and 
insurance, mobility, digital services).”3
A benchmark analysis conducted on 
the training offers of the departments of 
Social Sciences of the main Italian and 
foreign universities shows a significant 
increase in the number of courses dealing 
with environmental, social and economic 
sustainability: after a phase in which teaching 
on sustainability
1 Presidency of the 
Council of Ministers, 
National Recovery and 
Resilience Plan
2ASviS Report, 2021
3Inequality and Diversity 
Forum Report, 2021
The external 
context

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consisted above all of elective courses, today 
we are witnessing a turnaround that provides, 
also for non-scientific degree courses, the 
inclusion of compulsory courses on economic, 
environmental and social sustainability to 
create dedicated professional figures and meet 
the growing demand for green jobs.
At the same time, except for a few exceptions, 
the scarcity of training on gender equality 
issues is clear. Compared to the areas of 
sustainability that are most closely monitored, 
which are usually still environmental, but also 
social and economic, gender issues are still 
present in a marginal way, and are dealt with 
in a dedicated manner in the framework of a 
few optional courses. On the other hand, in 
the few universities where the subject is more 
prevalent, gender equality takes on its own 
autonomy and intersects the various areas 
of sustainability, becoming a driver through 
which all other dimensions can be read.
Since 2015, Luiss has strongly and concretely 
supported the objectives of the United Nations 
2030 Agenda and is committed to ensuring 
that every initiative respects the principles of 
Sustainable Development in a comprehensive 
and transparent manner and can today respond 
to the challenges proposed by the PNRR.
This has resulted in its inclusion in the major 
international sustainability rankings for 
universities. In 2020, it entered the global 
ranking of the Green Metric of the 50 most 
sustainable universities, positioning itself 
in 43rd place worldwide. In 2021, it climbed 
another 21 positions, earning the 22nd place 
and finishing among the top 30 sustainable 
universities globally.
In the national context and, in particular, in the 
university context, Luiss actively participates in 
the networks that to date have represented a 
reference point for the path towards Sustainable 
Development and cooperation for the 
achievement of the 17 SDGs at national level, 
that is the ASviS (Italian Alliance for Sustainable 
Development) and the RUS (Network of 
Universities for Sustainable Development).
The internal  
context  
The basis on which we build

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Consistent with its values and DNA, while 
confirming its commitment to all 17 SDGs, Luiss 
focuses its actions on those objectives where it 
can make a greater contribution: 
	II	 Goal 4 - Quality education: ensure quality, 
fair and inclusive education, and promote 
lifelong learning opportunities for all, 
decreasing the % of basic and functional 
illiteracy, inequalities in the share of 
graduates between regions, limiting early 
exit from the educational system and 
increasing the number of young people and 
adults with the skills necessary for full and 
satisfactory employment.
	II	 Goal 5 - Gender equality: achieve gender 
equality and empowerment (greater 
strength, self-esteem and awareness) of all 
women and girls, increasing their presence 
in managerial positions and decision-making 
bodies at all levels.
	II	 Goal 8 - Decent work and economic growth: 
encourage lasting, inclusive and sustainable 
economic growth, full and productive 
employment and decent work for all, limiting 
the overall unemployment rate and the 
number of unemployed young people who 
do not study or are not in training (Neet) 
and geographical differences in terms of 
economic output and employment.
	II	 Goal 9 - Business, Innovation and 
Infrastructure: build a resilient infrastructure 
and promote innovation and fair, responsible 
and sustainable industrialisation, fostering 
the growth of companies in the high and 
medium technology sectors, the use of clean 
technologies which are environmentally 
friendly, improving investment in research 
and development, and strengthening the 
technological capacities and infrastructures 
of companies and “country systems”.
	II	 Goal 10 - Reduce Inequalities: reduce 
inequality within and among nations by 
reversing the trend of concentrating wealth 
in the hands of the few and increasing the 
risk of poverty and geographical and gender 
disparities, and favouring the increase of 
family income per capita.
	II	 Goal 11 - Sustainable cities and 
communities: make cities and human 
settlements inclusive, safe, durable 
and sustainable by improving waste 
management, air quality, sustainable 
mobility services, the quality of buildings,  
the expansion of green spaces and public 
spaces and the preservation of artistic and 
cultural heritage.
	II	 Goal 12 - Responsible consumption and 
production: ensure sustainable production 
and consumption patterns with actions 
to counteract the growth of the ecological 
footprint and with actions that favour the 
growth of the circularity index of materials 
and the percentage of waste recycling, 
encouraging companies to adopt sustainable 
practices and to integrate information on 
sustainability in periodic reports.
	II	 Goal 16 - Peace, justice and strong 
institutions: promote peaceful and 
more inclusive societies for sustainable 
development; provide access to justice for 
all and create efficient, accountable and 
inclusive bodies at all levels.
Around these objectives, as evidence of 
the exceptional, constant and widespread 
commitment, of all our staff and the entire 
academic community, it is possible to identify 
1000 (1057) initiatives, events, educational 
activities and teachings, as well as research 
products, developed in Luiss between 2015 and 
2020. 
Among the many initiatives, mention should be 
made of: 
	II	 Goal 4 - Volunteering: since 2014, this 
project has immersed about 300 students 
per year in contexts very different from the 
ones they are used to, allowing them to 
challenge themselves and grow as human 
beings. 
	II	 Goal 4 - Legality and Merit: an initiative that 
aims to raise awareness among the younger 
generations of the value of respect for the 
rules and the fight against corruption
	II	 Goal 4 – Sustain: editorial brand of Luiss 
University Press dedicated to environmental, 
economic and social sustainability
	II	 Goal 4 - Don’t Waste Award: an annual 
project that promotes economic, 
environmental and social projects and 
practices that promote sustainability, 
conscious consumption, lifestyles for

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economic growth aimed at real social 
progress; the project involves about 20 
secondary schools each year and culminates 
in an award event for the best projects.
	II	 Goal 8 - In-House and @ Home Training: 
during the health crisis, the People 
Management office carried out a virtual 
cross-disciplinary project with teachers, 
collaborators, consultants and colleagues: a 
personalised training plan, open to all Luiss 
resources, with 78 training courses available 
and more than 4,000 hours of training.
	II	 Goal 9 - 42 Roma Luiss and 42 Firenze Luiss: 
schools created with the aim of providing 
education free of charge to a new generation 
of digital talents able to drive the country’s 
technological transformation
	II	 Goal 10 - Mediterranean Project: Since 
2017, Luiss has been committed to offering 
university training to deserving young 
people, including refugees or those in 
situations of socio-economic difficulty, 
from Mediterranean countries. Indeed, 
in collaboration with the Third Pillar 
Foundation - International, Luiss has 
launched the “Mediterranean Project” 
thanks to which Jordanian students, Syrian 
and Palestinian refugees, as well as Maltese 
students have graduated from Luiss.
	II	 Goal 10 - ASD & Gardners: since 2015, the 
Luiss Community Garden has hosted the 
initiative created in collaboration with the 
Cervelli Ribelli Foundation, which sees the 
participation of about 20 autistic children in 
horticultural activities every year overseen by 
a team of psychologists and operators; the 
activities are also integrated into an inclusion 
pathway between Luiss students and autistic 
children, through laboratory work in the 
vegetable garden.
	II	 Goal 11 - Luiss Green Mobility: the university 
department of intelligent, connected and 
shared mobility that allows students, 
teachers, staff and management to move 
around the city in a sustainable way, through 
combined services: car sharing with electric 
vehicles, bike sharing with electric pedal-
assisted bikes and charging points, as well as 
electric shuttles.
	II	 Goal 11 - Luiss Community Garden: since 
2014, the University Garden has been 
an open space for students, teachers, 
administrative staff, volunteers from local 
associations, children from local schools 
and the community, and aims to facilitate 
social interaction, to be a place where 
collaborations and initiatives come to life, 
where nature, well-being, sustainability and 
learning co-exist.
	II	 Goal 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 - Sustainable 
Development Festival: since 2017, Luiss has 
joined the Sustainable Development Festival 
promoted by ASviS with many events (106 
over the course of the various editions)
The University’s strong commitment to 
sustainable development is also reiterated in the 
Strategic Plan approved for the four-year period 
2021-24, which integrates sustainability among 
the primary objectives of the coming years and 
provides a further acceleration to the impact 
that these issues have for the entire community. 
Indeed, “Sustainability at large” is one of 
the 6 trajectories of the University Strategic 
Plan which translates into the widespread 
integration of sustainability into the fabric of 
Luiss, involving students, staff, the academic 
community, employers, senior Alumni, recent 
graduates and partners in added value projects, 
in line with the 2030 Agenda.
To make this strategic direction a reality, the 
University wanted to design a clear governance 
of sustainability, creating an organisational 
unit dedicated to it with the aim of linking and 
directing the various projects.
In addition, since 2020, the Integrated 
Report has been prepared, through which 
the University reports and enhances how the 
resources and relationships that constitute 
its assets are integrated to create value in the 
short, medium and long term in favour of the 
main stakeholders (students, families, teachers, 
researchers, employees, companies, students, 
institutions and suppliers).

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	I consolidated sustainability projects  
	I sustainability in the University 
Strategic Plan with dedicated set 
KPIs  
	I Integrated Report
	I engaged technical and 
administrative staff  
	I learning structure  
	I internal skills  
	I dedicated organisational unit  
	I Rector’s delegation on D&I  
	I networks with active companies and 
associations
	I increasing attention to ESG-related 
issues  
	I increasing awareness of D&I  
	I PNRR  
	I European Commission address on 
gender issues
	I internal processes and data 
availability  
	I integration of systems and processes  
	I unclear positioning on main focus  
	I training offer on issues on 
sustainability issues poorly 
structured  
	I female leadership  
	I number of researchers on 
sustainability  
	I training and awareness of technical 
administrative staff of their impact 
on sustainability
	I positioning of national and 
international competitors  
	I increase in the training offer of 
competitors  
	I time to market for the possible 
training offer proposal
SWOT Analysis 
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Vision: Let’s imagine a future in which 
sustainability – environmental, social 
and  economic - is perfectly integrated 
into the University and directs every 
choice and action.
Mission: Working together to build  
and foster a culture of sustainability.
Values: Inclusiveness, responsibility, 
agentivity, merit, trust, transparency, 
self-management and self-respect, 
sharing, passion, gratitude and spirit of 
service, collaboration, community focus, 
lifelong learning, evolution, mindfulness 
training and critical thinking, curiosity.
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The 
Sustainability 
Plan: our path 
towards a 
sustainable 
future

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The Sustainability Plan provides for 5 areas of 
intervention, each of which is associated with 
specific objectives. The sixth area, Diversity 
& Inclusion, is transversal to the other 5 and 
guides their objectives and actions.
AREA1 – Didactics - Student learning  
and experiences
Integrate sustainability into students’ learning 
pathways and experiential activities involving 
them.
AREA2 – Faculty Scientific Research  
Increase the Faculty’s commitment to quality 
research related to sustainability. 
AREA3 – Facilities & campus operations 
Include sustainability as the main driver for 
logistics, space management and procurement 
activities in order to make the use of resources 
more efficient and reduce the environmental 
impact of the university.
AREA4 - People & Culture 
Accelerate a culture of sustainability, 
inclusiveness and well-being on campus  
and in the Luiss community as a whole.
AREA5 - Communication & Engagement 
Promote and communicate sustainability inside 
and outside the University in order to promote 
awareness and suitable positioning.
AREA6 - Diversity & Inclusion 
Build a strong culture of inclusion and gender 
equality through the dissemination of specific 
initiatives in each of the areas of intervention.
In the three-year period 2022-2024, Luiss will 
focus on gender policies and social inclusion, 
issues that are transversal to all 6 PNRR 
Missions. Indeed, the recent pandemic crisis 
worsened the synthetic indicators relating to 
Goals 5 and 10, and Luiss takes up the challenge 
of working precisely in favor of Diversity & 
Inclusion policies.
 
The areas
of intervention

Objective 1: Engage students in high impact, mandatory 
curricular and extra-curricular experiences in the domain of 
sustainability.
Actions
1.	
Involvement of students in service learning and community 
learning activities on sustainability issues
2.	
Expansion of the offer for students taking part in competitions 
and contests on sustainability issues
Objective 2: Integrate sustainability into learning pathways by 
creating new teaching, seminar-based and interdisciplinary and 
interdepartmental opportunities.
Actions
1.	
Acquisition on the part of Master’s Degree students of 
knowledge and application of research methodologies and 
methods in contexts related to sustainability
2.	
Creation of an “interdisciplinary” week every year centred 
around a “grand challenge” on sustainability issues that 
interests students of all different levels
3.	
Organisation of research seminars based on the most current 
sustainability issues
4.	 Involvement of external players to support sustainability 
initiatives designed and organised for students  (testimonials, 
evaluators/judges of student presentations, events on campus, 
etc.)
5.	
Enhancing the provision of sustainability training
KPI
	I no. of theses on sustainability
	I no. of students attending sustainability courses
	I no. of courses on sustainability
	I no. of students participating in volunteer projects
	I no. of proposals for volunteering activities for students
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Teaching  
Students’ learning and experiences

Objective: Increase the University’s 
commitment to quality research related 
to sustainability.
Actions
1.	
Identification of funding 
opportunities for sustainability 
research
2.	 Inclusion of researchers in the 
faculty with publications on the 
topic of sustainability
3.	 Provision of an annual award for 
quality research in the field of 
sustainability
4.	 Dissemination of sustainability 
research results through ad hoc 
initiatives
KPI
	I no. of funded research projects on 
sustainability
	I no. of research projects requested on 
sustainability
	I no. of publications on sustainability
	I no. of research seminars on 
sustainability issues
	I average index VIR on sustainability 
research
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Faculty 
Scientific 
Research

Objective: to introduce sustainability 
as the main driver for logistics and 
space and procurement management 
activities, in order to efficiently 
use resources and reduce the 
environmental impact of the University 
and its community, while also 
educating it.
Actions
1.	
Implementation of initiatives aimed 
at reducing the environmental 
impact (efficiency and reduction of 
consumption, waste management, 
cooling and heating of buildings, 
mobility management, green 
management, carbon reduction 
initiatives)
2.	
Implementation of initiatives 
aimed at improving the livability/
functionality of spaces
3.	
Selection of an ethical suppliers’ 
chain (Green procurement 
policy, implementation of models 
and systems for evaluating the 
sustainability performance of 
suppliers, definition of systems 
for verifying the quality of green 
suppliers, etc.)
4.	 Drafting and implementation of a 
Policy to ensure sustainable and 
inclusive management of all events
KPI
	I total carbon footprint
	I total value of green supplies Green 
Metric score
	I THE Impact Ranking score total 
electricity consumption
	I no. of means available for alternative 
mobility
	I % waste recycling
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Facilities 
& Campus 
Operations

Objective: Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness and well-
being on campus and in the community 
through the sharing of values and 
codes of conduct. 
Actions
1.	
Implementation of projects to 
improve the business climate, 
increase the sense of belonging, 
enhance each resource 
(analysis of climate, training and 
community building/shaping 
initiatives, initiatives promoting 
diversity,corporate volunteering, 
integration of sustainability skills in 
the performance evaluation system)
2.	
Implementation of initiatives aimed 
at improving well-being (“work 
life balance” initiatives, corporate 
welfare, employee services, 
organisation of smart-working)
3.	
Implementation of initiatives to 
improve internal communication 
(intranet, dedicated events, creation 
of informal spaces)
 
KPI
	I segmentation of the classification of 
technical-administrative staff and 
teaching staff by age and gender
	I % employees with flexible hours
	I average number of smart working 
days annually per employee
	I % staff hired out of total 
collaborators
	I approval rating based on climate 
analysis
	I average number of hours of training 
per employee
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People  
& Culture

Objective: To promote sustainability inside and outside Luiss by 
activating its network, with particular attention to the Alumni 
network, in projects that have a tangible impact, a constant 
connection with research, teaching and communication, and 
increase awareness and positioning of the University.
Actions
1.	
Implementation of stakeholder engagement and partnership 
strategies with both internal and external sustainability focuses 
(identification and development of new relationships and 
networks based on sustainability, initiation of ad hoc contacts 
with companies centred on sustainability, increase in the 
number of students engaged in internships/projects related to 
sustainability, fund-raising projects dedicated to sustainability)
2.	 Implementation of inclusion strategies (fundraising projects to 
support deserving and poor students, mentorship initiatives, 
specific tutorship initiatives)
3.	 Creation of an integrated communication plan dedicated to 
sustainability
4.	 Implementation of sustainability events
5.	 Launch of Third Mission projects
6.	 Launch of initiatives aimed at enhancing internal assets for the 
external community
7.	
Implementation of actions to disseminated Luiss’ know-how 
on sustainability (dedicated press review, enhancement of 
interventions by Luiss teachers on sustainability, Luiss TV, 
creation of sustainability podcasts, promotion of the visibility of 
the website section dedicated to sustainability)
KPI
	I no. of partnerships on sustainability projects  total amount of 
means-based scholarships
	I no. of students benefiting from exemptions and scholarships
	I total number of partnership agreements for sustainability 
projects
	I no. of Luiss sustainability web page views
	I no. of miscellaneous media articles on Luiss sustainability 
projects
	I no. of free sustainability courses for external individuals
	I no. of participants in Luiss guided tours  no. of participants in 
sustainability events
	I no. of sustainability events
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Communication  
& Engagement

Objective: To build a strong culture of inclusion and gender 
equality through the dissemination of specific actions in 
each of the areas of intervention with the development and 
implementation of the D&I plan.
Actions
1.	
Development and implementation of the Gender Equality Plan
2.	 Set-up of an anti-violence desk
3.	 Enhancing teaching on D&I and gender equality
4.	 Enhancement of the experiences offered to students on D&I 
and gender equality issues
5.	 Initiation of specific initiatives with a focus on D&I and gender 
equality in each of the actions promoting research (e.g. ad 
hoc funding opportunities, inclusion of researchers on D&I 
issues, annual award for research on D&I issues, initiatives to 
disseminate research on D&I and gender equality)
6.	 Preference for suppliers who implement policies of inclusion of 
individuals in fragile social conditions, female entrepreneurs, or 
individuals from disadvantaged areas
7.	
Insertion of D&I and gender equality indicators in event 
management
8.	 Insertion of a specific focus on D&I in all projects of the People 
& Culture domain
9.	 Initiation of specific initiatives in favour of students with 
disabilities, those belonging to minorities or in specific social 
vulnerability situations
10.	 Implementation of events on D&I and gender equality
11.	 Launch of Third Mission projects on D&I issues and those with 
an impact on disadvantaged people or women
12.	 Creation of guidelines for the use of inclusive and non-
discriminatory language
13.	 Preparation of the Gender Report
14.	 Approval of the D&I Plan
KPI
	I no. of courses on gender equality
	I no. of students attending courses on gender equality  gender 
pay gap
	I gender equality in executive positions
	I % female students receiving scholarships
	I % women engaged in smart working4
4 Further indicators will emerge from the drafting of the Gender Equality Plan
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Diversity & Inclusion

To be an international model of economic, social and environmental 
sustainability, in particular:
a cutting-edge training offer on sustainability issues, rich in content 
and valuable experiences
leadership over quality research into sustainability
a carbon neutral campus
a community of engaged people who contribute to social well-being
a community capable of including and enhancing all forms of diversity, 
with particular attention to gender issues
zero cultural, economic, or physical barriers
a culture oriented towards self-assessment and improvement
LUISS 2030
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Our promises:  
Luiss 2030

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Sustainability KPIs
Annex 1
Luiss has built a set of over 200 indicators linked to the 6 areas of 
intervention, through which to monitor its sustainability performance. 
A dedicated section has also been developed for sustainability in the 
University’s performance monitoring and management platform. Each 
indicator has been linked to one of the Sustainable Development Goals 
(SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda. The KPI tool has also been outlined 
on the basis of GRI standards - standards for reporting the sustainable 
performance of organisations – and on the basis of the guidelines of the 
main international sustainability ranking systems aimed at universities.

Sustainability KPIs 
Indicator
SDG
No. of average annual monitoring sessions/meetings with each student from foreign developing countries
1
No. of large teaching projects attended on average by each student from foreign developing countries
1
No. of students from foreign developing countries
1
Luiss people interfacing with students from foreign developing countries
1
No. of proposals for volunteering activities for students
1
Direct or indirect donations to non-profit organisations/foundations
1
Events involving donations of food surpluses
2
No. of participants in Luiss SSD Luiss projects for psychological and physical well-being
3
No. of employees involved in ongoing exercise activities offered by Luiss SSD
3
No. of agreements with gyms and sports activities
3
No. of agreements with kindergartens and preschools
3
No. of medical agreements
3
No. of preventive medical services provided free of charge (e.g. cancer, blood tests)
3
No. of employees receiving nutritional counselling service
3
Sq m common outdoor break areas for employees and students
3
Sq m of coworking spaces for employees and teachers
3
% organic and 0 km of total food (canteen)
3
% plant-based foods out of the total
3
Total reimbursement of medical expenses
3
% employees with flexible hours
3
No. of days the offices are open to children of teaching staff and employees
3
% part-time
3
No. of hours on-site babysitting service used
3
No. of job rotation hours
3
No. of behavioural training hours to promote collaboration, favourable climate, etc.
(total data referring to the entire company population)
3
Total amount of scholarships based on income only
4
No. of students benefiting from exemptions and scholarships
4
No. of sports students receiving scholarships
4
Total funds for exemptions and study grants
4
% students with scholarships based on merit and financial situation
4
Average time spent on the Sustainability page in seconds
4
No. of Sustainability page views
4
No.of participants in SDGs-related events (phygital + digital)
4
No. of SDGs-related events (phygital + digital)
4
No. of students (insider guides) involved in the Reconnect Luiss project 
4
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Indicator
SDG
No. of students (guided students) receiving scholarships with special support from Alumni in the 
Reconnect Luiss project
4
No. of internships carried out by students on sustainability/CSR projects
4
Luiss people interfacing with students from foreign developing countries
4
No. of students participating in volunteer projects
4
No. of SDGs-related events (in person)
4
% SDGs-related events (in person) out of the total
4
No. of participants in SDG-related events (in person)
4
Square meters open 24 hours a day
4
Sq m study rooms and common spaces for students
4
Residences: sq m outdoor common areas
4
No. of miscellaneous media articles on Luiss Sustainability projects
4
No. of interventions on Sustainability by Luiss teachers across various media
4
No. of free sustainability courses for external individuals
4
No. of external participants in sustainability projects
4
No. of participants in SDGs-related events (in person + phygital + digital)
4
No.of SDGs-related events (in person + phygital + digital)
4
% online events out of the total
4
% students who choose the University in part for its sustainability
4
No. of high-impact research dissemination events on sustainability (with at least 100 participants)
4
No. of teaching sessions and activities dealing with sustainability
4
No. of publications dealing with sustainability
4
No. of students who have won competitions/contests on sustainability issues (theses, project work, etc.)
4
No. of Luiss’ students theses on sustainability issues
4
No. of research seminars on sustainability issues
4
No. of students attending sustainability courses
4
No. of courses and teaching sessions on gender issues
4
No. of students attending courses on gender
4
No. of courses on sustainability schools
4
No. of funded research projects on sustainability
4
No. of research projects requested on sustainability
4
No. of teachers with publications on sustainability
4
No. of sustainability publications in top-tier journals
4
Average VIR score for Luiss publications on sustainability
4
% total publications on sustainability falling within VIR bands A and A+ out total publications of VIR 
band A and A+ of the university as a whole
4
No. of female students receiving scholarships in areas close to STEM
5
Total amount of scholarships for STEM area female students
5
% female beneficiaries of scholarships
5
% phygital + digital events with 50% or more female speakers
5
% in-person events with 50% or more female speakers
5
% female senior researchers out of total senior researchers
5
% female junior researchers out of total junior researchers
5
% female executives/supervisors
5
% extraordinary female co. 12 out of total extraordinary co.12
5
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Indicator
SDG
% women engaged in smart working out of total beneficiaries
5
% women managers
5
% ordinary female employees out of total ordinary employees
5
% women associated out of total associated
5
% permanent female teachers
5
% women up to civil servant level
5
% mixed events (in person + phygital + digital) with 50% or more female speakers
5
No. of female graduate and postgraduate students in courses close to the STEM area
5
% female students out of total enrolled Luiss graduate and postgraduate students
5
% female students out of the total number of Schools students enrolled
5
% women on BOD
5
% of female assistant professors
5
% of female lecturers
5
% of contract professors -total official teaching contracts for women
5
% of contract professors -other females
5
% of contract professors -professional females
5
% of female assistant professors
5
% of female lecturers
5
% of contract professors -total supplementary contracts for women
5
Irrigation water consumption -ltrs
6
Ltrs reused water
6
% devices with efficient appliance usage (lights with sensors, printers, etc.)
6
Ltrs rainwater preserved
6
% taps with efficient appliance usage
6
% treated water out of the total
6
Difference -in € -spent on renewable versus non-renewable sources
7
Certifications in the field of environmental sustainability
7
Electrical consumption attributable to room cooling systems (kw/hr)
7
Electrical consumption attributable to heating systems (kw/hr)
7
No. of company intranet visits
8
No. of intranet monthly updates
8
No. of average years for integration following a collaboration contract
8
% maximum employee satisfaction per project
8
% maximum satisfaction regarding career advancement
8
% staff hired out of total collaborators
8
Appreciation assessed via climate analysis -administrative staff
8
No. of newsletters received annually by each employee on Luiss services (no. newsletters * no. annual 
releases)
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -over 50 years of age -up to civil servant
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age between 30 and 50 years -up to civil servant
8
Distribution of admin staff by age group -% age between 30 and 50 years
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age between 30 and 50 years -executives and supervisors
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age under 30 years -executives and supervisors
8
Distribution of admin staff by age group -% over 50 years of age
8
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Indicator
SDG
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age over 50 years -executives and supervisors
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age between 30 and 50 years -managers and directors
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age under 30 up to civil servant
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age under 30 -managers and directors
8
Classification of admin staff by age group (%) -age over 50 -managers and directors
8
Distribution of admin staff by age group -% under 30 years of age
8
Average hours of training provided to employees during the reporting period, for managerial employees 
and directors
8
Average hours of training provided to employees during the reporting period, for women
8
Total number of shadowing/mentoring hours
8
% maximum employee satisfaction on training
8
Average hours of training provided to employees during the reporting period, for executives and supervisors
8
Average hours of training provided to employees during the reporting period, employees up to civil servant
8
No. of hours of training for non-employees (trainees + collaborators) -total value
8
No. of hours junior vs. senior reskilling
8
% women of the total admin staff
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women over the age of 50 -managers and 
directors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% of women over 50 years of age -executives and 
supervisors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% of women under 30 years of age -executives and 
supervisors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women aged 30 to 50 -managers and directors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women over the age of 50 -up to civil servant
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women under 30 years of age -up to civil servant
8
Difference in average annual salary of female vs male teachers
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women under 30 -managers and directors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% of women aged 30 to 50 -executives and 
supervisors
8
Classification of admin staff by gender and age group -% women aged 30 to 50 -up to civil servant
8
Difference in average annual salary of administrative staff, women vs men
8
No. of events for/with employees (DG meetings, etc.)
8
No. of incubated or generic startups on themes
8
Average no. of annual monitoring/meetings with each disabled student/tutor
10
Luiss people interfacing with students with disabilities/tutors
10
% students with disabilities/tutors
10
% spaces accessible to people with motor disabilities
10
% of administrative staff with disabilities (protected categories, and others)
10
No. of partnerships with companies for projects on inequalities
10
Sentiment analysis on sustainability
11
No. of external persons participating in Luiss site visits
11
No. of students involved in guided tours (as a guide + organisational staff + participants)
11
No. of visits to Luiss sites
11
No. of vehicles entering the university in a year
11
Average daily number of students using shuttles
11
Use of electric cars -total annual kilometres covered 
11
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Indicator
SDG
No. of bicycles
11
Average daily km of each student to reach the University from their home
11
No. of means available for alternative mobility (shuttle, bike, carsharing)
11
% movement of teaching and admin staff with: bike/on foot, shared transport, public transport, private car, 
car with family, motorcycle, electric vehicle, Luiss alternative mobility
11
No. of electric cars at a reduced rate
11
No. of daily shuttle trips
11
Electric vehicle charging devices
11
No. of average smart working days annually per employee
11
No. of staff volunteering hours (all types, total value)
11
No. of hours of sustainability training (total)
11
Km save for admin staff thanks to smart working
11
Average daily km of each employee to reach the workplace
11
No. of personal volunteer partners
11
% transport of each student to reach the University from their home by “eco” means: bike/on foot, shared 
means, public transport, electric vehicle)
11
% new suppliers with green certification
12
Total value of green supplies
12
Average level of satisfaction with suppliers
12
% evaluation of suppliers assessed out of the total
12
No. of print-outs
12
No. of paper sheets used (total)
12
Other disposable plastic material
12
No. of plastic bottles
12
No. of suppliers with social purposes (e.g. catering)
12
% waste recycling out of total
12
No. of differentiated collection bins
12
Kg recycled waste
12
Kg undifferentiated waste
12
No. of meals wasted per day
12
No. of sustainability policies (purchasing, energy, waste, use of plastic, events, etc.)
12
Ecofriendly gadget events
12
% events with digital only information material
12
% “sustainable” events out of the total (with at least one flagged field of sustainability feedback)
12
Gas consumption
13
Total electricity consumption (kW/hr)
13
% LED light sources out of total
13
% electricity from renewable sources
13
Total carbon footprint
13
% events whose carbon footprint is compensated
13
Green Metric Ranking Position
13
% tree area out of total
15
No. of trees
15
No. of new trees planted each year
15
Surface area of external green areas managed by Luiss
15
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Indicator
SDG
Green surface area (sq m)
15
Green areas available to citizens
15
Cultivated green surface area out of total
15
Biodiversity: no. of tree species
15
Total value of partnership agreements for sustainability projects (per calendar year)
17
Sponsorship for events on sustainability themes/aspects
17
Integrated Report Views
17
Active collaborations on sustainability/SDG projects with NGOs
17
Active collaborations on sustainability/SDG projects with companies and foundations
17
No. of Sustainability networks to which Luiss belongs
17
Active collaborations on sustainability/SDG projects with institutions
17
The Impact Ranking Score
17
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Sustainability projects
Annex 2
Sustainability projects aim to improve sustainability performance 
and implement the objectives of the University Strategic Plan and 
the Sustainability Plan. Indeed, each project responds to at least one 
objective of the 6 Areas of Intervention. The projects are fostered and 
connected by the Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability Office, which 
works in close collaboration with the relevant offices and are in fact the 
result of a shared, collaborative and co-creative approach based on data 
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Sustainability projects
Project
Objective and action of the 
Sustainability Plan
Integrating sustainability into the procurement management system for tracking 
sustainable suppliers and supplies
3.3
Benchmark analysis of the educational offer of the main competitors
1.2.5
Quantification of carbon footprint
3.1
Series of surveys on the perception of the various dimensions of sustainability
5.7
Press review dedicated to sustainability
5.7
Mapping of national/international campaigns/networks/events to join
5.3
Evaluation questionnaire for all suppliers
3.1
Autistic Children & Gardeners
5.5
The Sustainable Development Festival
5.4
Integrated Financial Statements
5
Identification of internal experts/teachers for interventions on sustainability
5.7
The “Don’t Waste” Award
5.4
Mapping and development of relationships with foundations
5.1
Consumption policy (energy, water, waste)
3
Mobility project development
3.1
Training projects: Diversity & Inclusion training
4.1
GEP (Gender Equality Plan)
4.1
Implementation of GEP actions
4.1
Preparation of the Gender Report
6.13
Approval of the D&I Plan
6.14
Community building/shaping: development of internal communication projects with 
a focus on sustainability (intranet with coworking spaces, communication, dedicated 
newsletters)
4.3
Development of carbon footprint compensation mechanisms
3.1
Integration of sustainability KPIs into the admin staff assessment system
4.1
Development of sustainable merchandising projects
3.1
Launch of corporate volunteer projects for employees
4.1
Agreements to distribute food waste at the canteen
3.1
Monitoring, reduction and redistribution of wasted meals for special events
3.1
Identification of existing projects that can be extended to admin and teaching staff (e.g. 
sustainability training)
4.1
Identification of new agreements for employees (gyms, kindergartens, etc.)
4.1
Development of orientation projects so that sustainability becomes an attraction driver
5.7
Climate analysis
4.1
List of sustainability target companies for the development of dedicated partnerships
5.1
Social Communication Plan + Sustainability Web
(monthly planning of social media posts, updating stories on the sustainability web page, 
etc.)
5.3
Launch of special projects on inequalities
5.2

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Project
Objective and action of the 
Sustainability Plan
Launch of training projects for admin staff such as “The skills bank: seniors shadow 
juniors -juniors reskill seniors”
4.1
Home automation projects to reduce consumption
3.1
“Listen to my University” inclusivity website project
5.2
Development of the website section dedicated to the voice of engaged students
5.3
A series of events related to sustainability
5.4
Be the best YOU -corporate well-being projects in collaboration with SSD
4.2
Ecological footprint quantification of servers
3.1
Construction and dissemination of bibliographies on specific sustainability issues (e.g. 
gender, climate change, etc.)
5.7
Print reduction project
3.1
Launch of support/inclusion projects for students with specific needs
5.2
Junker App development to promote correct waste separation
3.1
Integration of sustainability KPIs into the University Strategic Plan
Integration of sustainability into the event management system
3.4
Green Procurement Policy
3.3
Responsible Management HR Policy
4
Implementation of the event satisfaction questionnaire for the tracking of sustainability 
elements
3.4
Green Events Policy
3.4
Analysis of environmental certifications in addition to mandatory ones
3.1
Climathon
5.4

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Teaching benchmarks
Benchmark analysis between comparable 
universities and top performers 
Annex 3

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This research focuses on the study of the 
educational offer on sustainability issues 
by the best Italian and international 
universities, restricting the sample to 
universities that are comparable in 
terms of size and disciplinary sector. In 
addition, for the purposes of an even 
comparison, where the universities had 
other departments, the analysis focused 
on Social Sciences departments. The 
main intention is to maintain thorough 
monitoring of outside institutions for the 
continuous improvement of the Luiss 
offer, so as to always be in step with the 
times and able to move towards a new 
vision of the future. Luiss’ concrete action 
to achieve the objectives of the 2030 
Agenda also manifests through teaching 
that makes it possible to generate impact 
and provide students with suitable and 
cutting-edge tools. The analysis follows 
the diamond method, that is, we start by 
identifying the individual classes related 
to sustainability issues, all the way up to 
the Degrees, Courses and Masters totally 
focused on Sustainable Development 
Goals (SDGs). For an even comparison, 
the sector related to the Social Sciences 
was analysed, using the website of the 
relevant university as the source of 
information.
The selected sample consists of the 
following universities:
	I Alma Mater University of Bologna 
	I Catholic University of the Sacred 
Heart of Milan
	I Luigi Bocconi University  
	I Ca’Foscari University of Venice  
	I University of Trento  
	I BI Norwegian Business School  
	I King’s College London
	I London School of Economics  
	I Sciences Po College
The benchmark analysis conducted on the 
training offers of the departments of Social 
Sciences of the main Italian and foreign 
universities shows a significant increase in the 
number of courses dealing with environmental, 
social and economic sustainability.
After a period during which courses on 
sustainability consisted above all of elective 
courses, today we are witnessing a turnaround 
that provides, also for non-scientific degree 
courses, the inclusion of compulsory courses 
on economic, environmental and social 
sustainability to create dedicated professional 
figures and respond to the growing demand for 
green jobs.
At the same time, except for a few exceptions, 
the scarcity of training on gender equality 
issues is clear. Compared to the areas of 
sustainability that are most closely monitored, 
which are usually still environmental, but also 
social and economic, gender issues are still 
present in a marginal way, and are dealt with 
in a dedicated way only in the context of a few 
optional courses. In the few universities where 
there is a greater presence of the issue, on the 
other hand, gender equality assumes its own 
autonomy and intersects with the various areas 
of sustainability, becoming a driver through 
which to read every other dimension.
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Alma Mater University of 
Bologna
The Alma Mater University of Bologna stands 
out from other Italian universities:
	II	 For its transversal and pervasive attention 
to sustainability that also manifests through 
the classification of each courses according 
to the SDGs to which it contributes, even if it 
does not directly relate to sustainability. 
	II	 Degree courses not dedicated to 
sustainability also have compulsory courses 
on these issues.
	II	 There is a prevalent interest in social issues, 
including when dealing with sustainability 
from an environmental and economic point 
of view.
	II	 At the same time as the above, on the 
other hand, in the degree courses in 
Social Sciences, there is also a technical 
engineering and chemistry dimension.
The educational strategy projected towards 
the 2030 Agenda translates into the following 
numbers (in cases where the same training 
opportunity is reported more than once in the 
following list, it is related to different Degrees, 
courses, profiles or training pathways)
5 Undergraduate Degrees
	II	 Masters in Health Economics and 
Management
	II	 Masters in Management of Social 
Economy 
	II	 Masters in Resource economics and 
sustainable development
	II	 Masters in International cooperation on 
human rights and intercultural heritage
	II	 Masters in Local and Global Development
9 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Business management -green 
management and sustainable businesses
	II	 Sustainability and business innovation
	II	 Sustainable and integrated mobility in 
urban regions
	II	 Sustainability transition management
	II	 Green energy and sustainable businesses
	II	 Governance and local welfare innovations
	II	 Business sustainability & circular economy
	II	 Change management
	II	 Diversity & Inclusion
114 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Health economics and policy in low-and 
middle-income countries
	II	 Our right to health: needs, resources and 
society
	II	 Health economics and policy in low-and 
middle-income countries
	II	 Topics in global health
	II	 Health promotion and policies (IC)
	II	 Lifestyles and health outcomes
	II	 Social and cooperative enterprise 
management
	II	 Budget and sustainability
	II	 Civil economy
	II	 Welfare Policies and Third Sector (IC) 
Third sector law (IC)
	II	 Law of the economy of non-profit 
institutions
	II	 Law of cooperation
	II	 Economics of the welfare state
	II	 Economic ethics
	II	 Business plan for social entrepreneurship
	II	 Business plan workshop for social 
entrepreneurship
	II	 Venture capital philanthropy
	II	 Ethical finance
	II	 Principle and techniques of fundraising
	II	 Management accounting in public and 
non-profit sector
	II	 Economics of development and 
international cooperation
	II	 Sociology of the third sector
	II	 Environmental auditing and corporate 
social responsibility
	II	 Sustainable resource economics and 
policy
	II	 Energy decarbonisation and the transition 
to net zero
	II	 Environmental and toxicological 
chemistry
	II	 Environmental sustainability assessment 
in waste prevention and treatments
	II	 Environmental law and regulation
	II	 Sustainable business
	II	 Economics of welfare
	II	 Economic inequality and sustainability
	II	 Economics of climate change
	II	 Regional and transport economics
	II	 Development economics and 
sustainability
	II	 Green technology and innovation
	II	 Energy systems and policy
	II	 Waste management LCA
	II	 Environmetrics
	II	 Geography of sustainable tourism
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	II	 Sustainable enterprise and green 
economy
	II	 Labour Law, new technologies and 
sustainable development
	II	 Infrastructure, transport and sustainable 
mobility law
	II	 Agro-food and agro-environmental law
	II	 Environmental and energy resource law
	II	 Immigration, social change and labour 
law
	II	 Seminar on environmental taxation
	II	 Science of climate change and climate 
actions
	II	 Sustainable development and one health 
-Bologna
	II	 Gender and the law
	II	 Politics and development in the global 
world
	II	 Political power beyond state boundaries: 
migration, development and human rights
	II	 Anthropology of migration
	II	 Citizenship and development in Africa
	II	 Political history of European integration 
and cooperation
	II	 Justice, multiculturalism and human rights
	II	 Institutions, culture and economic 
development
	II	 Project-cycle management in 
development cooperation
	II	 Global challenges: ecological law and the 
pluriverse of cultures
	II	 Globalisation, democracy and human 
rights
	II	 Landscapes of post-urbanity: nature, 
infrastructure, semantics
	II	 Sustainable development and one health
	II	 Workshop on monitoring and evaluation 
of development cooperation projects
	II	 Development geography and policies
	II	 Sociology of innovation and sustainable 
development
	II	 Sociology of communities and urban 
districts
	II	 Geographies of global challenges
	II	 Human rights and political institutions
	II	 International development economics
	II	 Methodology of social and political 
research
	II	 Public law of emerging countries
	II	 Geographical information systems -GIS
	II	 Workshop on social responsibility and 
territorial corporate welfare
	II	 Analysis of projects on international 
cooperation
	II	 Workshop on globalisation processes: 
developments and trends
	II	 Quantitative methods for development 
analysis
	II	 Systems and technologies for 
development and cooperation
	II	 Environmental economics and policy
	II	 International agricultural policies
	II	 Public policies and income redistribution
	II	 Economic principles of fundraising
	II	 Agricultural and rural development 
policies
	II	 Environmental economics
	II	 Models of economic behaviour and 
territorial analysis
	II	 Comparative labour market policies
	II	 International health cooperation
	II	 International demographics
	II	 Education systems and policies
	II	 Development, gender and discrimination 
processes
	II	 Web society and globalisation
	II	 Territorial welfare and third sector
	II	 Theories of justice and development 
policies
	II	 Humanitarian and social communication
	II	 Humanitarian communication
	II	 Sociology of international migrations
	II	 Sociology of inequalities
	II	 Anthropology of sustainability
	II	 Public policies and income redistribution
	II	 Social stratification and economic 
inequality
	II	 Development, gender and discrimination 
processes
	II	 Geography of the environment and 
sustainable development
	II	 Environmental economics
	II	 Analysis of sustainable development
	II	 Environmental economics and policy
	II	 Consumption, sustainability and social 
innovation
	II	 Sustainable development
	II	 Business ethics and sustainability
	II	 Assessment methods, social impact and 
new value chains
	II	 Welfare community guidance: 
hybridisations, cross-links and 
territorialisation of policies
	II	 Resources and tools for financing 
innovative welfare: social impact finance
	II	 The cultural dimension of welfare: 
towards a prosperous, inclusive and 
sustainable city
	II	 Migration, international aid and climate 
change
	II	 Business ethics and sustainability

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	II	 Masters in sustainable finance 
administration - MSBA
	II	 Executive master in third sector and social 
enterprise -EMTESIS
	II	 Strategic management of the circular 
economy
	II	 Profession sustainability
	II	 Finance and integrated ecology
	II	 Sustainability in action
	II	 Sustainable Schools
	II	 Impact measurement and social reporting
	II	 MBA Africa for Entrepreneurs
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Cameroon)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Cameroon)
	II	 MBA entrepreneurship & sustainable 
development (Ivory Coast)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Eswatini)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Ethiopia)
	II	 MBA in global business & sustainability 
(Ghana)
	II	 MBA in global business & sustainability 
(Kenya)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Mali)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Mozambique)
	II	 Executive MBA in impact 
entrepreneurship (Rwanda)
	II	 Executive MBA in entrepreneurship 
(Senegal)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Sierra Leone)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Sudan)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Mali)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Tunisia)
	II	 MBA in global business & sustainability 
(Uganda)
	II	 Global MBA in impact entrepreneurship 
(Zimbabwe)
60 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Legal forms of sustainability and private 
law
	II	 Sustainable value and integrated 
reporting
	II	 Mathematical methods for economics and 
the environment
	II	 Ecosystems, chemistry and physics of the 
environment and impact assessment
Catholic University
of the Sacred Heart of Milan
The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of 
Milan proves to be a flagship in this regard
with teaching focused on sustainability or at 
least heavily influenced by it:
	II	 ALTIS -University of Business and Society, 
the Business School of the Catholic 
University of the Sacred Heart is the 
main demonstration of this; it bases its 
entire action programme on principles of 
sustainability.
	II	 Also of interest is the interdisciplinary 
approach given to some Undergraduate 
Degree Courses such as Management 
for Sustainability in which, in addition to 
courses typically related to economics and 
law, lessons representative of the complexity 
and disciplinary breadth of sustainability 
are also included, identified in the class 
BIO/04,CHIM/12 (ecosystems, chemistry 
and physics of the environment and impact 
assessment), m-ped/01 (environmental 
pedagogy and integral human 
developmentand pedagogical design for 
integral ecology), as well as agr/01 (economy 
and management of natural resources).
	II	 ALTIS, in partnership with some companies, 
has built Masters related to entrepreneurship 
and sustainability in Africa to support 
and accompany the local population in a 
development process with a high social, 
environmental and economic impact.
The training offer for sustainability at the 
Catholic Sacred Heart University of Milan can 
be summarised as follows (in cases where the 
same training opportunity is reported more
than once in the following list, it is related to 
different Degrees, courses, profiles or training 
pathways):
1 Undergraduate Degree course
	II	 Three-year Degree Course in 
Management for sustainability
29 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Insurance management: innovation, 
sustainability and international scenarios
	II	 Masters in food & beverage: management 
and sustainability of catering services
	II	 Masters in sustainable business 
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	II	 Environmental pedagogy and integral 
human development
	II	 Commercial law and sustainability of 
business activities
	II	 Economics and management of natural 
resources
	II	 Businesses, institutions and strategies for 
sustainability
	II	 Change organisation and management
	II	 Educational design for integrated ecology
	II	 Public law of services of general interest
	II	 Green marketing and sustainable finance
	II	 Tax policies and sustainability
	II	 Ethics of the Earth
	II	 Administrative and environmental law
	II	 Logistics and supply chain
	II	 Economics and industrial policy 
	II	 Economics of sustainable development
	II	 Ethical finance and responsible 
investment
	II	 Organisations, work and disability
	II	 Economic sustainability and CSR
	II	 Sustainable business innovation and 
finance
	II	 Sustainable finance and ethics
	II	 Organisations, environment and social 
innovation
	II	 Theory and methodology of relational 
social work
	II	 Sociology of migration and inter-ethnic 
coexistence
	II	 Sociology of collective phenomena
	II	 Post-conflict and emergency management
	II	 Restorative justice and conflict response 
models
	II	 European integration: history and policies
	II	 European social policies for inclusion, 
families and minors
	II	 Consumption and active citizenship (with 
media planning introduction workshop)
	II	 Organisations, environment and social 
innovation
	II	 Ethical finance and responsible 
investment
	II	 Management of public enterprises and 
relations with corporate stakeholders
	II	 Organisations, work and disability
	II	 Sociology of differences and inequalities
	II	 Ethics of care
	II	 Demographics and migratory movements
	II	 Policies for international development 
cooperation
	II	 International protection of human rights
	II	 CSR and sustainability
	II	 Economics of sustainable development
	II	 Strategies for managing the reception of 
migrants and refugees
	II	 Theory of change and impact assessment 
in international cooperation
	II	 Public ethics
	II	 Public finance and welfare models 
	II	 Major players and organisational models 
in private welfare
	II	 Policies for sustainability, territory and 
historical-artistic heritage
	II	 Human capital policies: demographics, 
education and employment
	II	 Health policies and social and health 
integration
	II	 Policies for inclusion, cohesion and social 
security
	II	 Governance for enterprise
	II	 Governance for public administration
	II	 Business ethics
	II	 CSR and sustainability
	II	 Theory of change and impact assessment 
in international cooperation
	II	 Policies for sustainability, the territory and 
historical-artistic heritage
	II	 Economic policies for resources and the 
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Ca’ Foscari University of 
Venice
The University appears to be the most 
structured and the most advanced in its way of 
presenting its sustainability training offer:
	II	 Unlike the universities studied so far, it is the 
only one to collect its courses dedicated to 
sustainability issues in a single section called 
“Sustainability Teaching”. 
	II	 The focus on sustainability is also 
highlighted by the possibility of choosing 
in each Degree Course the course called 
“Sustainability Skills”, which in many cases 
is mandatory and is part of the annual 
curriculum (for example: Data Analytics for 
Business and Society, Three-year Degree 
Course in Philosophy, International and 
Economic Studies and many others).
	II	 There is a particular sensitivity to the issues 
of inclusion that is expressed in numerous 
courses on interculturality, gender, and the 
study of migratory phenomena.
	II	 Also noteworthy is the course on “Linguistics 
for Deafness” included in the Degree Course 
in Intercultural Development of Tourism 
Systems, which demonstrates the will to 
build bridges to eliminate inequalities and 
known barriers, but which are sadly largely 
still ignored.
	II	 In addition to the wide range of courses, 
classes and teachings, there are also 
interdisciplinary and indivisible thematic 
courses defined as Minors, consisting of 
three supplementary courses for Ca ‘Foscari 
students, but also accessible to external users 
(by paying a registration fee) that allow you 
to enrich your predominant training area 
with transversal skills.
	II	 In addition, the University has been 
promoting entirely online activities for 
several years now, which are free and open to 
all, delivered through Eduopen, or MOOCs - 
Massive Open Online Courses - on multiple 
topics and disciplinary areas.
Ca’Foscari offers multiple possibilities to 
learn about sustainability through courses 
of study at various levels, focused on the 
issues of environmental, social and economic 
sustainability. Below is the selection for the 
academic year 2021/22 (in cases where the 
same educational opportunity is reported more 
than once in the following list, it is understood 
to refer to different Undergraduate Degrees, 
courses, profiles or training pathways):
4 Undergraduate Degree Courses
	II	 Masters in Work, Social Citizenship, 
Interculturality  
	II	 Masters in Environmental Humanities
	II	 Masters in Global Development and 
Entrepreneurship
	II	 Masters in Governance of Public 
Organisations
9 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Environmental and territorial law  
	II	 Labour and social security law
	II	 Global economics and social affairs  
	II	 Immigration
	II	 Migration and social change
	II	 Sustainability management  
	II	 Science and management of climate 
change
	II	 Strategic studies and international 
security  
	II	 Mobility innovation and management  
	II	 Welfare management
110 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Earth’s climate  
	II	 Energy systems
	II	 Environmental risk assessment and 
management
	II	 Global and local challenges in the age of 
unsustainable development
	II	 Leadership and entrepreneurship as 
means for change
	II	 Smart communities: the role of 
responsible citizens
	II	 Economics of innovation 4.0
	II	 New business models and the role of 
human resources
	II	 Flexibility and technologies: platform 
work and agile work
	II	 Policies to combat new social risks 
	II	 Welfare economy
	II	 Welfare systems and social policies in 
Europe
	II	 Introduction to digital and public 
humanities
	II	 Biocultural diversity
	II	 Environmental anthropology 1 mod. 1 
	II	  Environmental humanities: an 
introduction
	II	 Migrations and the environment  
	II	 The Anthropocene: detection and 
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	II	 The climate system and its variability
	II	 Anthropogenic impacts on the 
environment
	II	 Buddhist views of nature and the 
environment
	II	 Critical animal studies
	II	 Economics of the environment:  
an introduction
	II	 Environmental anthropology 1 mod. 2  
	II	 Environmental archaeology of coastal 
areas and wetlands
	II	 Environmental history and humanities  
in India
	II	 Environmental history: labour-
environment relations in contemporary 
Italy  
	II	 Indigenous environmental knowledge  
in Asia
	II	 Italy’s landscapes of resistance: cultivating 
creativity in critical environments  
	II	 Philosophy and policies of life and the 
environment
	II	 Poetry & ecocriticism: south Africa, 
Scotland and Ireland
	II	 Public participation and environmental 
governance in China
	II	 Structure and functioning of the living 
environment
	II	 Theories and research in environmental 
education
	II	 Conservation biology: history and 
principles
	II	 Environmental anthropology 2  
	II	 Environmental writing
	II	 Global change and sustainability  Green 
discourse
	II	 Translation and migration  
	II	 Christianity and ecology
	II	 Environmental history of the mediaeval 
Mediterranean
	II	 Environmental law
	II	 Humans, the natural environment and the 
animal other in Scandinavian literature  
	II	 Nature, culture and society: themes in 
European environmental history  
	II	 Economics of innovation and 
development-1
	II	 Economics of innovation and 
development-2
	II	 Sustainability skills  
	II	 Geopolitics and geoeconomics  
	II	 Economics of innovation and 
development-2
	II	 Sustainability Skills
	II	 Private equity and development funding 
	II	  Sociology of complex social systems  
	II	 Law of welfare and sustainability  
	II	 Welfare system and social policies in 
Europe
	II	 Sustainability Skills
	II	 Territorial development and tourism 
sustainability-1
	II	 Territorial development and tourism 
sustainability-2
	II	 Business ecosystems in tourism  
	II	 Linguistic sustainability skills for deafness  
	II	 Welfare state, regulations and 
environment
	II	 Advanced management of nonprofit 
organisations
	II	 Sustainability Skills
	II	 Industrial dynamics and global economic 
challenges-1
	II	 Sustainable development  
	II	 Competence for sustainability  
	II	 Ecology of coastal environments  
	II	 Impacts, adaptation and mitigation of 
climate change
	II	 Ecosystem services and sustainability  
	II	 Multivariate data analysis in 
environmental matrices
	II	 Biology and management of animal 
populations
	II	 Restoration ecology
	II	 Landscape ecological planning and 
design
	II	 Environmental data analysis - part 1  
	II	 Environmental data analysis - part 2  
	II	 Oceanography
	II	 Environmental and climate economics  
	II	 Environmental impacts of climate change  
	II	 Geographic information systems  
	II	 Renewable energy sources
	II	 The climate of the past  Environmental 
performance of firms  
	II	 Unit operation for environmental  
processes
	II	 Assessment and management of 
environmental sustainability
	II	 Applied geochemistry for environmental 
processes
	II	 Methodologies for environmental 
monitoring
	II	 Waste and wastewater treatment plant  
	II	 Chemistry of transitional environments  
	II	 Georesources
	II	 Coastal processes and hazards with 
laboratory
	II	 Hydrology
	II	 Ecosystem functioning and climate 
change
	II	 Environmental modelling  
	II	 Innovation and environmental 
management
	II	 Interdisciplinary case study  
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	II	 Site remediation technology
	II	 Applied microbiology
	II	 Fundamental rights and privacy  
	II	 Right to welfare  
	II	 Immigration and human rights
	II	 Theories and analysis of inequalities  
	II	 Welfare and environmental sustainability  
	II	 Gender, family and migration
	II	 Gender and social policies  
	II	 Social justice and citizenship  
	II	 Social policies workshop  
	II	 Migration and citizenship  
	II	 Racism and interculturalism
University of Trento
For the University of Trento, the concept of 
sustainability embraces and affects many areas 
and training sectors of the University:
	II	 It is attentive to the issue of environmental, 
social and economic sustainability starting 
from the introduction of compulsory 
sustainability teaching including in 
traditional Undergraduate Degrees, but it is 
lacking in the number and variety of the offer 
compared to the universities analysed so far.
	II	 Conventional curricular training is 
accompanied by a professionally qualifying 
complementary training course which opens 
out to the international dimension and 
to the world of cooperation. The TALETE 
programme, developed by the University 
of Trento and the Centre for International 
Cooperation, is part of the Advanced Training 
section with a precise reference to the Anglo-
Saxon tradition of honours programmes. The 
aim is to create an opportunity to mature 
soft skills by broadening the focus on global 
interdependence and helping to maintain a 
social climate that is able to relate positively 
to the Other. 
Below are the courses tracked (in cases where 
the same training opportunity is reported more
than once in the following list, it is related to 
different Degrees, courses, profiles or training 
pathways):
1 Undergraduate Degree course
	II	 Sustainability and Tourism Management
5 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Social Enterprise Management - GIS 
	II	 Diversity Management: Inclusion and 
Equity – GeDIE
	II	 Migration law and policies - DIRPOM
	II	 Masters in knowledge of transition  
	II	 Social foresight
46 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 The economics of European integration  
	II	 Global economic policy
	II	 Human Rights and Natural Resources 
under International Law
	II	 Labour rights in the global economy
	II	 Peace and conflict studies: theory and 
methods

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	II	 Science, technology and global affairs  
	II	 People, politics and the planet  
	II	 Minorities, regionalism and borders in 
Europe
	II	 Minority rights
	II	 International Cooperation, Development 
and Security
	II	 Global Migration and Security
	II	 Natural resources and energy security  
	II	 Global markets and security issues  
	II	 Politics and global transformations  
	II	 Environmental sustainability  
	II	 Minorities, regionalism and borders in 
Europe
	II	 People, politics and the planet  
	II	 Social security
	II	 Gender issues in political and social 
research
	II	 Design for sustainable communities  
	II	 Home, place and displacement  
	II	 Ethnicity and diversity
	II	 Social demography
	II	 Urban policy geography  
	II	 Migration studies
	II	 Business sustainability management  
	II	 The role of universal and regional 
organisations in promoting peace and 
security
	II	 Terrorism and insurgency in war and 
peace
	II	 Risk and uncertainty in economics: 
concepts and methods
	II	 Ethics of security  
	II	 Global food security  
	II	 Gender and security
	II	 Advocacy and peacebuilding in armed 
conflicts
	II	 Global migration and security
	II	 People, politics and the planet  Minority 
rights
	II	 Minorities, regionalism and borders in 
Europe
	II	 Peace and conflict studies: theory and 
methods
	II	 Environmental and territorial economics  
	II	 Quality and environmental management 
and certification system
	II	 Sustainable management of natural 
resources  
	II	 Social measurement and reporting  
	II	 Business economics and social 
responsibility, recommended for the 
hybrid and sustainable businesses course
	II	 Social measurement and reporting  
	II	 Sustainability and social entrepreneurship  
	II	 Multiple stakeholders of social and 
environmental reporting
Luigi Bocconi University
Bocconi offers a relatively small offer of 
Undergraduate and Masters Courses, but on 
the other hand offers the possibility of Majoring 
in sustainability issues (Sustainability for the 
Undergraduate Degree in Economics and 
Management of Government and International 
Organisations  and Green Management and 
Sustainability for the Undergraduate Degree 
Course in Economics and Management of 
Innovation and Technology):
	II	 In view of a training offer that is not very rich, 
it offers the possibility of including among 
elective courses one or more classes relevant 
to sustainability, which are different for each 
Department.
	II	 Among the universities analysed so far, it 
is the only one to make extra classes on 
sustainability available to its Law students, 
among which Gender Law and Women’s 
Rights stand out.
Bocconi University’s sustainability training offer 
translates into the following numbers (in
cases in which the same training opportunity is 
reported more than once in the following list, it 
is related to different Degrees, courses, profiles 
or training pathways):
2 Specialisations of Undergraduate Degree 
Courses
	II	 Green Management and Sustainability  
	II	 Sustainability
3 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Diri MASEM - Masters in Sustainability 
and energy management
	II	 MEMIT - Masters in Economics and 
Management of Transport, Infrastructure 
and Supply Chain
	II	 LLM in European business and social law
35 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Sustainability
	II	 Globalisation, divergence and inequality 
in historical perspective
	II	 Cities and regions: managing growth and 
change
	II	 Welfare and politics
	II	 Energy policy and sustainability  
	II	 Geopolitics for business  
	II	 Economics of sustainable urban 
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	II	 Finance for the green business and the 
circular economy
	II	 Innovation, growth and sustainability
	II	 Finance for the green business and the 
circular economy
	II	 Innovation, growth and sustainability
	II	 Green management and corporate 
sustainability
	II	 CSR, sustainability, and social 
entrepreneurship
	II	 Creating a start up in the digital and 
sustainable economy
	II	 Administrative law - environmental and 
territorial law  
	II	 Public contracts, anti-corruption and 
sustainability
	II	 Gender law and women’s rights  
	II	 Fundamental rights in Europe
	II	 Ethical aspects of security and privacy  
	II	 Finance for the green business and the 
circular economy
	II	 Green management and corporate 
sustainability
	II	 CSR, sustainability, and social 
entrepreneurship
	II	 Energy policy and sustainability
	II	 Cities and regions: managing growth and 
change
	II	 Economics of sustainable urban 
regeneration
	II	 Innovation, growth and sustainability, in 
English
	II	 Management of international 
organisations and NGO’s, in English  
	II	 Managing business government relations, 
in English
	II	 Finance for the green business and the 
circular economy, in English
	II	 Supply chain management, in English  
	II	 Public economics, in English  
	II	 Population dynamics and economics, in 
English
	II	 Cities and regions: managing growth and 
change, in English
	II	 Geopolitics for business, in English  
	II	 Governance of public policy networks, in 
English
	II	 CSR, sustainability, and social 
entrepreneurship, in English
	II	 Social movements, markets and firms, in 
English
BI Norwegian Business 
School
The BI Norwegian Business School offers 
training that integrates responsibility, ethics and 
sustainability in order to face the challenges of 
society more effectively:
	II	 Since the last PRME report (in 2018), BI 
has developed new courses (Three-year 
Undergraduate Degree Courses, Magisterial 
Degree and Masters) and programmes, as 
well as revisiting the existing ones.
	II	 The strategic perspective of BI by 2025 is 
to include sustainability in all programmes 
and courses to ensure the awareness and 
understanding that world’s evolution 
requires and these will be winning qualities 
in the markets of the future.
	II	 The objective appears very clear and well 
explained in a page completely dedicated 
to teaching for sustainability, in which the 
declared mission is the development of 
students’ ability to be future generators of 
sustainable value for companies and society 
in general, and to work for an inclusive and 
sustainable global economy.
The offer of the BI Norwegian Business School 
is organised as follows (in cases where the same 
training opportunity is reported more than 
once in the following list, it is related to different 
Degrees, courses, profiles or training pathways):
2 Undergraduate Degrees (and courses)
	II	 Masters in Sustainable Finance  
	II	 Major in Sustainable Finance (Masters in 
Science in Business)
4 Masters (consisting of 1st and 2nd 
level Masters, Executive Courses, Open 
Programmes and MBAs)
	II	 Executive MBA
	II	 Executive Masters of Management in 
Energy
	II	 Strategy, innovation and sustainability  
	II	 Executive Masters of Management in 
Energy
22 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Green entrepreneurship and innovation 
systems
	II	 Business in a global context  
	II	 Succeeding with sustainable growth  
	II	 Global, digital and sustainable
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	II	 Fundamentals of oil, gas and power 
business
	II	 Energy technology in action
	II	 Shaping the future energy ecosystem  
	II	 Ethics and sustainability in finance  
	II	 Environment and sustainable  
development
	II	 Global sustainable development  
	II	 Sustainable finance
	II	 Value creation, sustainability and social 
welfare
	II	 Ethics and sustainability in finance  Ethics 
and sustainability in organisations  
	II	 Sustainable people management  
	II	 Sustainability in practice
	II	 Green growth as a competitive advantage  
	II	 Sustainable people management  
	II	 Sustainability as a business model and 
competitiveness
	II	 Sustainable strategies and innovations  
	II	 Sustainable marketing
King’s College London
King’s College London presents many 
educational opportunities related to 
environmental issues and sustainability. 
Highlights of sustainability-focused education 
include:
	II	 King’s College London has developed 
an online and interdisciplinary module 
on sustainability called KEATS, with the 
aim of providing all students and staff at 
King’s College London with a meaningful 
understanding of sustainability, the 
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 
how to act on these issues and according to 
these principles. The courses are co-created 
by a team of students, staff and former 
students who make up the work team called 
the Take Action Team.
	II	 All the Bachelor’s and Masters Degrees are 
distinguished by having at least one optional 
course on sustainability, sometimes common 
to several Bachelor’s Degrees.
	II	 The teachings on sustainability are 
characterised by thematic relevance to the 
chosen training path, without falling into the 
generic, thus risking losing specific relevance.
The educational offer of King’s College London 
can be described with the following numbers (in 
cases where the same educational opportunity 
is reported more than once in the following 
list, it is related to different Degrees, courses, 
profiles or training pathways):
4 Undergraduate Degree courses  
(and specialisations)
	II	 Sustainable cities
	II	 Climate change: environment, science 
and policy
	II	 Environmental science for sustainability  
	II	 Geopolitics, resources and territory
No Masters that deals directly with 
sustainability (1st and 2nd level Masters, 
Executive Courses, Open Programmes and 
MBAs)
61 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Governing the sustainable city  
	II	 Practising social research  
	II	 Environmental data analysis  
	II	 Understanding the sustainable city  
	II	 Climate: science and society  
	II	 Environment, livelihoods and 
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	II	 GIS and spatial data science
	II	 Environment and society  
	II	 Sustainability in practice  
	II	 The right to the city  
	II	 Tourism and development
	II	 Fundamentals of climate change  
	II	 Environmental data analysis  
	II	 Modeling environmental change
	II	 Environmental science and policymaking  
	II	 Climate: science and society
	II	 Earth observation and remote sensing for 
sustainability
	II	 Environmental dynamics in the 
Anthropocene
	II	 Environmental science and policymaking  
	II	 Environmental science for sustainability  
	II	 Fundamentals of environment, policies 
and development
	II	 Environment and society
	II	 Resilience, adaptation and development  
	II	 Sustainability and ethics
	II	 Literature, climate, futurity  
	II	 Business ethics & sustainability I 
	II	 Corporate social responsibility  
	II	 Business ethics and sustainability II  
	II	 Diversity & inclusion
	II	 Ethics, economics and environmental 
protection
	II	 Ethics, economics and public policy  
	II	 Political economy of inequality  
	II	 Managing diversity and inclusion  
	II	 Diversity & change in the political 
economy of east Asia
	II	 Gender & development
	II	 Poverty & privilege in the developed 
world: examining representations of race 
& class in the U.S. & Brazil
	II	 Migration & development
	II	 Social movements & civil society in 
emerging markets
	II	 Corporate social responsibility
	II	 Germany in motion: migration, integration 
and political transformation
	II	 Writings in tongues: literature and 
migration in the modern German context  
	II	 Marketing and sustainability
	II	 Managing diversity; contemporary issues  
	II	 Global governance and sustainability  
	II	 Sustainability and ethics  
	II	 Entrepreneurship in the social and 
sustainable enterprise
	II	 Environmental field and lab techniques 
for sustainability
	II	 Environmental science for sustainability  
	II	 Environmental data analysis
	II	 Earth observation and remote sensing for 
sustainability
	II	 Modelling environmental change
	II	 Environmental dynamics in the 
Anthropocene
	II	 Environmental science and policymaking  
	II	 Fundamentals of climate change  
Sustainability in practice
	II	 Understanding the sustainable city  
	II	 Water sustainability, society and 
governance
	II	 Practising social research  
	II	 Security and the global natural 
environment
	II	 Geopolitics of natural resource disputes  
	II	 Water sustainability, society and 
governance

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London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political 
Science presents a wide range of sustainability 
topics. In particular:
	II	 There is a cross-sectional spread across the 
degree courses of both compulsory and 
elective subjects relating to sustainability.
	II	 There are also numerous offers of entire 
Degree Courses and profiles completely 
dedicated to sustainability issues.
	II	 The theme of gender equality is definitely 
well developed, especially from the point of 
view of dedicated Degree Courses.
	II	 The great richness of the offer means that 
there are teachings on issues that in other 
contexts are poorly represented (striking, 
for example, is the presence of a class on 
“Happiness”).
The educational offer of London School 
of Economics and Political Science can be 
described with the following numbers (in cases 
where the same educational opportunity is 
reported more than once in the following list, it 
is related to different Degrees, courses, profiles 
or training pathways):
17 Undergraduate Degree courses and 6 
specialisations
	II	 Gender, development and globalization  
	II	 Environmental economics and climate 
change
	II	 Environmental policy and regulation  
	II	 Gender
	II	 Gender (Research)  
	II	 Gender (Sexuality)  
	II	 Gender, media and culture
	II	 Gender, peace and security  
	II	 Gender, policy and inequalities  
	II	 Human rights
	II	 Human rights and politics  
	II	 Inequalities and social science  
	II	 International development and 
humanitarian emergencies  
	II	 International social and public policy 
(migration)
	II	 Environment and development  
	II	 Environmental policy and regulation  
	II	 Environmental economics and climate 
change
	II	 LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban 
Policy
	II	 Regional and urban planning studies  
	II	 Local economic development  
	II	 Urbanisation and development 
	II	 Double MSc Political economy of 
development
	II	 Double MSc Urban policy
2 Masters (Executive)
	II	 Executive Masters in Cities
	II	 Executive Masters in Social business and 
entrepreneurship
252 courses (compulsory and elective courses)
	II	 Gender theories: an interdisciplinary 
approach
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development  
	II	 Gender, labour markets and social change 
in the global south: theory, evidence, 
public action
	II	 Sexual and reproductive health 
programmes: design, implementation and 
evaluation
	II	 Key issues in global health and 
development
	II	 Forced migration and refugees
	II	 Gender, knowledge and research practice  
	II	 Gender, post/coloniality and development: 
critical perspectives and new directions  
	II	 Gender, race and militarisation
	II	 Theorising gender and social policy
	II	 Gender and European welfare states  
	II	 Feminist population politics 
	II	 Feminist economics and policy: an 
introduction
	II	 Transnational sexuality, gender and 
culture policies  
	II	 Globalisation and sexuality
	II	 Introduction to gender, peace and security  
	II	 Gender and human rights
	II	 Bodies, culture and politics
	II	 Archival interventions: feminist, queer and 
decolonial approaches
	II	 Intersectional inequalities in the agro-
food system
	II	 Dilemmas of equality  
	II	 Feminist political theory
	II	 Cities, people and poverty in the South  
	II	 Environment and development  
	II	 Economic development and the 
environment
	II	 Politics of environment and development 
	II	 Economic development and the 
environment
	II	 Politics of environment and development 
	II	 The economics of urbanisation  
	II	 Contemporary debates in human 
geography
	II	 Globalisation and regional development  
	II	 Regional development and policy  
	II	 Environmental regulation: implementing 
policy
	II	 Climate change: science, economics and 
policy

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	II	 Cities, people and poverty in the South
	II	 Urban ethnography
	II	 Urban Asia: cities and social change  
	II	 Cities, politics and citizenship  
	II	 Economic appraisal and valuation  
	II	 Urban theory and policy in the global 
South
	II	 Concepts in environmental regulation  
	II	 Urban Africa
	II	 Issues in environmental governance  
	II	 Applied geographical information systems  
	II	 Urban transformations
	II	 Remaking China: geographical aspects of 
development and disparity  
	II	 Environmental and resource economics  
	II	 Climate change: science, economics and 
policy
	II	 Environmental and resource economics  
	II	 Climate change: science, economics and 
policy
	II	 Economic development policy I: applied 
policy analysis for macroeconomic 
development
	II	 Economic development policy II: 
microeconomic analysis  
	II	 Economic development policy III: 
government policy analysis  
	II	 Development and growth 
	II	 Capitalism and social justice
	II	 The economics of urbanisation  
	II	 Globalisation and regional development  
	II	 Economics of local and regional  
development
	II	 Environmental regulation: implementing 
policy
	II	 Planning for sustainable cities  
	II	 Economic appraisal and valuation  
	II	 Concepts in environmental regulation  
	II	 Economic development and the 
environment
	II	 Policies of environment and development  
Issues in environmental governance  
	II	 Applied geographical information systems  
	II	 Global environmental policies
	II	 Happiness
	II	 Environmental regulation: implementing 
policy
	II	 Economic development and the 
environment
	II	 Policies of environment and development  
	II	 Global environmental governance
	II	 Policy-making in the European Union  
	II	 Climate change: science, economics and 
policy
	II	 Planning for sustainable cities  
	II	 Economic appraisal and valuation
	II	 Applied geographical information systems  
	II	 Global environmental policies
	II	 Climate change and international law
	II	 Transnational environmental law  
	II	 Economy, risk and society
	II	 Gender theories: an interdisciplinary 
approach
	II	 Gender, knowledge and research practice  
	II	 The anthropology of kinship, sex and 
gender
	II	 Sexual and reproductive health 
programmes: design, implementation and 
evaluation
	II	 Key issues in global health and 
development
	II	 Gender and media representation  
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development  
	II	 Gender, globalisation and development: 
an introduction
	II	 Screening the present: contemporary 
cinema and cultural critique
	II	 Gender, post/coloniality and development: 
critical perspectives and new directions  
	II	 Gender, race and militarisation
	II	 Feminist economics and policy: an 
introduction
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development: 
theorising policy and practice
	II	 Transnational sexuality, gender and 
culture policies  
	II	 Globalisation and sexuality
	II	 Introduction to gender, peace and security  
	II	 Gender and human rights
	II	 Bodies, culture and politics
	II	 Archival interventions: feminist, queer and 
decolonial approaches
	II	 Intersectional inequalities in the agro-
food system
	II	 Gender and media representation  
	II	 Mediated feminisms
	II	 Gender, knowledge and research practice  
	II	 Gender, ‘race’ and militarisation
	II	 Gender and human rights
	II	 Advanced issues in women, peace and 
security
	II	 Theorising gender and social policy  
	II	 Feminist population policies
	II	 Gender and European welfare states  
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development: 
theorising policy and practice
	II	 Gender theories: an interdisciplinary 
approach
	II	 Sexual and reproductive health 
programmes: design, implementation and 
evaluation
	II	 Key issues in global health and 
development
	II	 Gender, knowledge and research practice  
	II	 Gender and media representation

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	II	 Globalisation, gender and development
	II	 Gender, globalisation and development: 
an introduction
	II	 Gender, post/coloniality and development: 
critical perspectives and new directions  
	II	 Gender, race and militarisation
	II	 Gender and European welfare states  
	II	 Feminist population politics  
	II	 Feminist economics and policy: an  
introduction
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development: 
theorising policy and practice
	II	 Transnational sexuality, gender and 
culture policies  
	II	 Globalisation and sexuality
	II	 Introduction to gender, peace and security  
	II	 Gender and human rights
	II	 Bodies, culture and politics
	II	 Archival interventions: feminist, queer and 
decolonial approaches
	II	 Intersectional inequalities in the agro-
food system
	II	 Dilemmas of equality  
	II	 Feminist political theory
	II	 Cities, people and poverty in the South  
	II	 Gender and societies
	II	 Ethnicity, race and social policy  
	II	 Human rights in the workplace
	II	 International migration and immigration 
management
	II	 Contemporary policies of human rights  
	II	 Doing ethnography
	II	 Social scientific analysis of inequalities  
	II	 Leadership and social change  
Anthropology of economy (1): production 
and exchange
	II	 Anthropology of economy (2): 
transformation and globalisation  
	II	 Managing humanitarianism
	II	 Advocacy, campaigning and grassroots 
activism
	II	 Forced migration and refugees  
	II	 The politics of inequality and 
redistribution
	II	 Gender and European welfare states  
	II	 Dilemmas of equality
	II	 Regional development and policy  
	II	 Urban theory and policy in the global 
South
	II	 Employment law
	II	 International media and the global South  
	II	 Technology and justice
	II	 International employment relations  
	II	 Families and inequalities
	II	 Urban inequalities  
	II	 Managing humanitarianism  
	II	 Poverty
	II	 Population and development: an 
analytical approach
	II	 Environmental problems and 
development interventions
	II	 Global environmental governance  
	II	 African development
	II	 Complex emergencies
	II	 Critical perspectives on global health and 
development
	II	 Global political economy of development  
	II	 International institutions and late 
development
	II	 The informal economy and development  
	II	 Human security
	II	 African political economy
	II	 Global health challenges: epidemics, 
disease, and public health response  
	II	 Youth and gendered violence
	II	 Gender, labour markets and social change 
in the global South: theory, evidence, 
public action
	II	 Advocacy, campaigning and grassroots 
activism
	II	 Population, health and development: 
evidence and projections
	II	 Sexual and reproductive health 
programmes: design, implementation and 
evaluation
	II	 Key issues in global health and 
development
	II	 Bayesian reasoning for qualitative social 
science: a modern approach to case study 
inference
	II	 Forced migration and refugees
	II	 Civil society, security and development  
	II	 Democracy and development
	II	 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-
economic and political implications for 
development
	II	 Revolution and development
	II	 Information communication technologies 
and socio-economic development (0.5)  
	II	 Economic development policy and: 
applied policy analysis for macroeconomic 
development
	II	 Economic development policy II: 
microeconomic analysis  
	II	 Economic development policy III: 
government policy analysis
	II	 Globalisation, conflict and post-conflict 
reconstruction
	II	 Gender, race and militarisation  
Introduction to gender, peace and security  
	II	 Global health security
	II	 Emergencies management: humanitarian 
intervention and digital innovation  
	II	 Environmental pollution: air, soil and 
water pollution
	II	 Global environmental health: principles

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and case studies
	II	 Environmental health research  
	II	 Energy and society: driving forces, 
problem and solutions of environmental 
issues at various dimension
	II	 Seminars on China’s environment and 
development
	II	 Climate change mitigation and 
adaptation: engineering solutions  
	II	 Environmental policy and management  
	II	 Integrated assessment of climate change 
mitigation for sustainable development  
	II	 Poverty
	II	 Population and development: an 
analytical approach to environmental 
problems and development interventions
	II	 Global environmental governance  
	II	 African development
	II	 Complex emergencies
	II	 Critical perspectives on global health and 
development
	II	 Global political economy of development  
	II	 The informal economy and development  
	II	 African political economy
	II	 Global health challenges: epidemics, 
disease, and public health response  
	II	 Gender, labour markets and social change 
in the global South: theory, evidence, 
public action
	II	 Advocacy, campaigning and grassroots 
activism
	II	 Population, health and development: 
evidence and projections
	II	 Sexual and reproductive health 
programmes: design, implementation and 
evaluation
	II	 Key issues in global health and 
development
	II	 Bayesian reasoning for qualitative social 
science: a modern approach to case study 
inference
	II	 Forced migration and refugees
	II	 Civil society, security and development  
	II	 Democracy and development (0.5)  
	II	 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-
economic and political implications 
for development (special topics in 
international development)
	II	 Revolution and development
	II	 Information communication technologies 
and socio-economic development  
	II	 Economic development policy I: applied 
policy analysis for macroeconomic 
development
	II	 Economic development policy II: 
microeconomic analysis  
	II	 Economic development policy III: 
government policy analysis
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development  
	II	 Gender, globalisation and development: 
an introduction
	II	 Gender, post/coloniality and development: 
critical perspectives and new directions  
	II	 Feminist economics and policy: an 
introduction
	II	 Globalisation, gender and development: 
theorising policy and practice
	II	 Public management theory and doctrine  
	II	 Globalisation and democratisation in 
southeast Asia
	II	 Contemporary debates in human 
geography
	II	 Globalisation and regional development  
	II	 Economics of local and regional 
development
	II	 Cities, people and poverty in the South  
	II	 Urban ethnography
	II	 The economics of regional and urban 
planning
	II	 Urban theory and policy in the global 
South
	II	 Economic development and the 
environment
	II	 Politics of environment and development  
	II	 Remaking china: geographical aspects of 
development and disparity
	II	 Public management: a design-oriented 
approach
	II	 Emergencies management: humanitarian 
intervention and digital innovation  
	II	 Organisational change
	II	 Urbanisation and social policy in the 
global South
	II	 Basic education for social development

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SciencesPo College
In its training offer, SciencesPo college confirms 
its strong international, thematic/regional and 
transversal characterisation. Furthermore, 
we note the desire to leave students the 
opportunity to enrich their curriculum by not 
providing large blocks of compulsory courses 
but almost always leaving the choice within a 
guideline for the composition of their university 
curriculum, through a rich offer of elective 
courses and seminars.
From a sustainability point of view:
	II	 The themes are therefore perfectly integrated 
into almost all Bachelor profiles and 
Masters degree opportunities, therefore 
although there is also a characteristic 
offer, sustainability permeates the learning 
pathways at all levels, thus reaching a very 
large cohort of students.
	II	 Sustainability is well articulated according to 
the more specific themes of the Sustainable 
Development Goals which, although not 
explicitly mentioned, are clearly recognisable.
	II	 Throughout the three years of the Bachelor 
programme, the College offers its students 
the opportunity to take part in the Civic 
Learning Programme (with credits) that aims 
to train ethically aware individuals of social 
realities at all levels, from local to global, 
enabling them to work in favour of others 
according to humanist principles, carrying 
out specific grassroots actions to aid people 
who are potentially discriminated against or 
facing difficulties.
	II	 The training offer specifically and explicitly 
dedicated to sustainability is extensive, 
especially in the Master’s degree programme 
and Master’s degree courses, while, in the 
Bachelor’s Degree offer, the educational 
pathways are crossed transversally by these 
issues. 
	II	 In the Master’s degree programmes, 
however, there is also a good transversal 
offer relating to sustainability, often common 
to the various profiles.
	II	 Much more present and allocated in various 
areas, compared to the other universities 
analysed, is undoubtedly the theme of 
gender equality, which is also developed 
transversally and found in almost all the 
educational offers.
The educational offer of Sciences Po can be 
described with the following numbers (in cases 
where the same educational opportunity is 
reported more than once in the following list, it 
is related to different Degrees, courses, profiles 
or training pathways):
8 Degree Courses (of which one Dual 
Bachelor’s Degree, 3 Masters and 4 Dual 
Masters programmes)
	II	 Dual Degree with University of Reims 
Champagne-Ardenne Environment, 
society and sustainability
	II	 Masters Degree programme in 
International energy
	II	 Masters degree programme in Governing 
ecological transitions in European cities  
	II	 Masters degree programme in 
International management and 
sustainability
	II	 Dual Masters of Urban policy with London 
School of Economics (LSE)
	II	 Dual Masters in Comparative urban 
governance with El Colegio de México  
	II	 Dual Masters in Global and Comparative 
Urban Planning and Governance with 
UCLA
	II	 Dual Masters in Management of 
International and public affairs with the 
Bocconi University
4 Masters
	II	 Master in Environmental Policy  
	II	 Master in International Energy
	II	 Executive Master of Regional governance 
and urban development
	II	 Master in Corporate Strategy
264 courses (consisting of workshops, 
compulsory courses, free courses and elective 
courses)
	II	 Care, welfare states and migration in 
Western Europe
	II	 Economics of the green and digital 
transformations
	II	 Gender, sexuality and feminisms in Latin 
America
	II	 Writing diversity in America  (un)faithful 
representations: race and transparency
	II	 In search of respect: American democracy 
confronting legacies of race and inequality 
	II	 Racialised and feminised labour: a 
historical, literary and feminist approach 
to paid domestic work
	II	 Gender and race in literature and visual 
arts
	II	 On violence and non-violence in 
American racial conflicts
	II	 The major issues of sociology: through the 
prism of gender - methodology  Initiation 
to entrepreneurship
	II	 Significant topics in sociology: gender

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	II	 Significant topics in sociology: gender
	II	 Past, present and the future of the 
Mediterranean sea’s biodiversity, 
functioning and ecosystems
	II	 Green industrial planning and the future 
of MENA development: a green new deal 
for the Arab states
	II	 The major issues of sociology through the 
prism of gender
	II	 The social and environmental economy in 
Europe
	II	 An introduction to business and human 
rights in Europe
	II	 Introduction to gender studies
	II	 Ethics and policies of artificial intelligence  
	II	 Agriculture and food: historical 
approaches to political issues  
	II	 Initiation to entrepreneurship
	II	 Gender and queer law
	II	 Gender and international human rights 
law
	II	 Global environmental governance  
	II	 Law and the imaginary
	II	 Intra-family violence, sexual violence: 
what treatment by criminal justice?
	II	 Sustainable development law
	II	 From homosexuality to LGBTQI+ an 
history, 19th-21st century
	II	 Feminist philosophies of emancipation: 
(in) differences et hierarchies  
	II	 Geopolitics of criminality
	II	 Changes in the urban condition in the era 
of the Anthropocene
	II	 International security and defence  
	II	 Euro, migration and climate change: 
European challenges and opportunities 
(the)
	II	 Global climate politics: comparative EU-
US perspectives
	II	 Contemporary perspectives on conflict 
and security
	II	 International conflicts
	II	 Gender-based violence and displacement  
	II	 Climate change and international security 
in the Anthropocene
	II	 Approaching migration from the field: 
initiating research-action within migration 
policies
	II	 Political science and the challenge of 
gender  
	II	 Urban governance and environmental 
policy
	II	 Identities, migrations and territories in 
contemporary France
	II	 Distributive justice
	II	 Education and social inequalities in 
western countries
	II	 Major sociological issues: gender
	II	 Gender, violence and resistance in Latin 
America
	II	 Geopolitics of gender: introduction to 
research in political science  
	II	 Significant topics in sociology: gender  
	II	 Environmental histories of North America  
	II	 Questions of gender in media and culture  
	II	 Energy, climate and geopolitics: 
contemporary challenges
	II	 History and cultural heritage diplomacy  
	II	 Gender, family diversity and reproductive 
autonomy in a globalised world
	II	 Energy politics and diplomacy in the 
global South
	II	 Decolonising the global ecological debate: 
indigenous American perspectives on 
environmentalism
	II	 Social economy and solidarity: action for a 
durable transition
	II	 Global energy fundamentals  
	II	 Construction of men – introduction to 
gender, sexualities and male power  
	II	 Sustainable development, consumption, 
and corporate social responsibility 
	II	 Introduction to sustainability science: 
interaction between social and 
environmental systems
	II	 Politics of the ecological mutation  
	II	 Corruption, public integrity and 
transparency: understanding a central 
issue of our time
	II	 Introduction to global environmental 
history
	II	 Sustainable development and the 
environmental impact of globalisation  
	II	 Social economy and solidarity: action for a 
durable transition
	II	 Climate change law and litigation  
	II	 Governing climate change  
	II	 Economics and the challenge of gender
	II	 Social economy and solidarity: practice, 
theory, debates
	II	 Agriculture, food and globalisation  
	II	 Rape and sexual violence in armed 
conflicts
	II	 Sustainable development law  
	II	 Women’s health and the law  
	II	 Refugee protection
	II	 Introduction to disability studies  
	II	 Gender and migration, conflict and 
development
	II	 Multilingualism, migration, European 
integration
	II	 The sciences of peace and conflict: 
emerging from political violence
	II	 Equality and diversity in the united states  
	II	 Environmental politics

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	II	 Gender and health
	II	 Environment, society and sustainability  
	II	 Covering egg freezing cost for female 
employees and work life balance
	II	 World heritage convention and its world 
heritage committee challenges and 
solutions
	II	 What governance in the face of post-
Covid-19 health crises?
	II	 Impact investing: managing 
environmental, climate & social risks when 
financing infrastructure projects
	II	 Water resources policies in Europe:  
the rise of common pool approaches 
	II	 Geopolitics of energy
	II	 Major energy debates - the sociology of 
controversies
	II	 From energy union to the green deal 
	II	 Migration and migratory policies  
in Europe
	II	 Community-focused and innovative 
economies  
	II	 Urban challenges: society, market and 
sustainability in the 21st century city  
	II	 Finance for the SDGs: impact investing & 
financial innovation
	II	 The politics and policies of humanitarian 
aids
	II	 Major maritime and coastal issues  
	II	 Agricultural policies
	II	 Fundamental rights
	II	 Science, politics, agriculture and food
	II	 The role of gas in the energy transition  
	II	 Economics of environment
	II	 Political economy of environmental 
change
	II	 Climate change and environmental 
movements: ideas, activism and impact  
	II	 Communication of sustainability  
	II	 Global social policy in a covid-19 and 
climate change era: an introduction  
	II	 Social entrepreneurship and leadership 
development
	II	 Achieving the sustainable development 
goals: challenges, innovations and 
opportunities
	II	 Humanitarian and development aid in 
public health
	II	 Planetary health: an introduction  
	II	 Energy: the local perspective
	II	 The challenges of electricity in the energy 
transition
	II	 Sustainable finance
	II	 Regulating water and sanitation services 
in Europe: concepts, challenges, and 
diversity of practice
	II	 Environmental policy  
	II	 Energy financing
	II	 Economics and regulation of electricity 
markets
	II	 Management tools and policies for the 
just ecological transition
	II	 LGBTQI policies and policies  
	II	 Gender, sexuality and organisations  
	II	 A territorial approach to migration  
policies: labour, welfare and social 
innovation
	II	 Planet Earth, a habitable planet  
	II	 History of ecological thought  
	II	 Disability and society
	II	 Social inequalities in western countries: 
institutional origins and political 
consequences
	II	 Agriculture and food in the global agenda  
	II	 Advancing gender equality through 
multilateralism
	II	 Energy and climate policies in cities  
	II	 Biodiversity values and policies  
	II	 Ecological science and nature-based 
solutions: issues and challenges  
	II	 Decarbonisation and renewable energy 
sources
	II	 Building welfare policies  Social 
innovation: taking action for a lasting 
transition
	II	 Gender, a global perspective  
	II	 Introduction to global health  
	II	 Gender and human rights
	II	 The role of NGOs in human rights 
protection
	II	 Protecting victims of armed conflicts  
	II	 International migration and justice in the 
EU
	II	 Migrations through the lens of gender  
	II	 From peacekeeping to peacebuilding  
	II	 The politics and practice of child rights in 
Africa: rhetoric and reality
	II	 Geopolitics of energy in Africa  
	II	 Global health in Africa: critical 
perspectives
	II	 Population, gender and society in China  
	II	 European immigration and asylum law  
	II	 Energy in Russia and FSU
	II	 Sustainable development of agriculture 
and food systems
	II	 Managing energy demand
	II	 Renewable energies: opportunity or 
need?
	II	 Harder-to-decarbonise sectors: the way 
forward
	II	 Sustainable development: narratives & 
policy making
	II	 Climate & security: environmental crime 
in the Amazon basin
	II	 The transition to the carbon neutral and

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circular economy in cities
	II	 Environment and migration  
	II	 Climate change & environmental 
movements: ideas, activism & impact  
	II	 Business models and policies for a circular 
economy
	II	 Indigenous self-government, human 
rights and environmental policies in Latin 
America
	II	 Gender & sustainable development: 
introduction to gender and environment  
	II	 Gender and development from a rights-
based approach
	II	 Women’s resistance against violence and 
fight for human rights protection
	II	 Health systems strengthening and global 
health
	II	 Human rights in international politics  
	II	 Global mobility and migration governance  
	II	 Managing and solving refugee problems: 
UNHCR & UNRWA
	II	 social innovation & entrepreneurship  
	II	 Understanding and responding to violent 
extremism
	II	 Climate change policy & diplomacy (new)  
	II	 Diplomatic engineering and political 
advising (new)
	II	 European climate change and energy 
policies in a global context
	II	 Managing migration: common challenges, 
differentiated strategies
	II	 Corporate social responsibility: from risk 
management to social innovation  
	II	 Climate change economics
	II	 Global economic inequalities and 
equitable growth
	II	 Gender economics  
	II	 Sustainable finance
	II	 Feminist foreign policy: how to fight for 
gender equality in international relations? 
Introduction to environmental economics 
(lecture)
	II	 Natural resource economics (lecture)  
	II	 From climate sciences to climate 
intervention?
	II	 Major oceanic environmental challenges: 
a multi-disciplinary scientific perspective  
	II	 Climate change: causes and 
consequences
	II	 Critical political ecology of water  
	II	 Risk and expertise: an introduction to the 
sociology of health and environmental 
issues
	II	 Climate geopolitics: international relations 
in a warming world
	II	 Dilemmas of energy transitions  
	II	 Decarbonisation and renewable energy 
sources
	II	 European energy policies
	II	 Sustainable transport
	II	 Economic analysis of environmental 
policies: methodology practices, 
limitations and policy uptake  
	II	 Natural catastrophe modelling
	II	 Raising climate impacts as issues of public 
concern: adaptation cases
	II	 Towards a pragmatic approach to waste 
recovery & recycling and associated 
services
	II	 Soil matters and climate change  
	II	 Financing water for sustainable 
development. Recent trends and ways 
forward
	II	 A practical approach to financing 
environmental projects
	II	 The global politics of financing low-
carbon & climate-resilient development 
	II	 Finance and biodiversity
	II	 Energy economics  
	II	 Energy markets  
	II	 Network energies
	II	 Oil and gas upstream industry  
	II	 Energy security
	II	 Energy diplomacy
	II	 Nuclear energy fundamentals  
	II	 International & comparative petroleum 
law and contracts
	II	 Energy landscape analysis
	II	 International natural gas markets and the 
role of clean gases in the energy transition  
	II	 System integration of renewable electricity 
sources
	II	 Industrial energy transitions
	II	 Can EU ETS & CBAM Help Achieve EU 
Net-zero 2050 Goal?
	II	 The role of hydrogen in a decarbonised 
world
	II	 Tools and technologies for energy 
transitions: hydropower  
	II	 Environmental governance
	II	 Global governance of climate change  
	II	 Governance of the ecological transition. 
	II	 Public policies and urban infrastructures
	II	 The politics and policies of ecological 
transitions in Europe
	II	 Governing sustainable metropolis  
	II	 Migration issues in large metropolis  
	II	 Service innovation & city transformation  
	II	 Urban infrastructure: water, sewage, 
waste & energy
	II	 Evaluating ecological transitions in large 
metropolis
	II	 Dealing with poverty in large metropolis  
	II	 Implementing housing policies  
	II	 Heritage, culture and planning
	II	 Urban ecological transitions in historical

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perspective
	II	 Government and governance of cities  
	II	 Climate change and urban policy choices  
	II	 Applied economics of the urban 
environment
	II	 Ecology and politics: key concepts and 
controversies
	II	 Law and cities in the ecological transition  
	II	 The politics and policies of ecological 
transition in European cities
	II	 Financing climate change adaptation and 
mitigation in European cities
	II	 Urban ecological transition and its 
discontents
	II	 The carbon footprint  
	II	 Cities as critical zones
	II	 From risk governance to crisis 
preparedness
	II	 Introduction to urban metabolism  
	II	 Energy network governance  
	II	 Urban biodiversity
	II	 Circular economy - optimising resources 
at a city level
	II	 Citizen participation
	II	 Rescaling public health: a new design for 
health policies in large cities
	II	 Sustainable urban planning
	II	 Ecological challenges and communication 
strategies
	II	 Urban mobility
	II	 Introduction to urban and territorial 
resilience
	II	 Energy challenges
	II	 Philanthropy, social investing and 
pursuing the common good  
	II	 Transformation project management for 
sustainable businesses
	II	 Creating sustainable businesses and 
policies
	II	 Building sustainable supply chains  
	II	 Environmental limits, innovation and 
sufficiency oriented business models  
	II	 Integrating sustainability into financial  
investments to create outperformance 
	II	 Towards sustainable food  
	II	 Understanding sustainable finance  
	II	 New trends in private funding for the 
common good
	II	 Entrepreneurship in the digital age  
	II	 Creating value in a circular, low carbon 
economy
	II	 Good governance and efficiency: how to 
manage organisations from corporations 
to NGOs
	II	 Sustainable fashion
	II	 Supply chain sustainability: a wind of 
change in the luxury sector
	II	 Experiential luxury - a sustainable way 
out?
	II	 Gendered marketing and anti-bias 
strategies

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Economics
 
Annex 4

Areas for intervention
Objective
2022
2023
2024
Didactics - Student Learning 
and Experiences
Integrate sustainability into 
students’ learning pathways and 
experiential activities involving 
them.
1.595.100
1.595.100
1.595.100
Faculty Scientific Research
Increase the Faculty’s 
commitment to quality research 
related to sustainability.
Facilities & Campus 
Operations
Include sustainability as the 
main driver for logistics, space 
management and procurement 
activities in order to efficiently 
use resources
and reduce the environmental 
impact of the university.
31.200
31.200
73.440
People & Culture
Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness
and well-being on the campus 
and in the Luiss community
considered as a whole.
Communication & 
Engagement
Promote and communicate 
sustainability inside and
outside the University in order to 
promote awareness and proper 
positioning.
8.000
60.200
50.760
Diversity & Inclusion
Build a strong culture of inclusion 
and gender equality through 
the dissemination of specific 
initiatives in each of the areas of 
intervention.
Ethics, Responsibility, 
Sustainability Office
Office for the development and 
coordination of projects
Areas for intervention
Objective
2022
2023
2024
Didactics - Student Learning 
and Experiences
Integrate sustainability into 
students’ learning pathways and 
experiential activities involving 
them.
Faculty Scientific Research
Increase the Faculty’s 
commitment to quality research 
related to sustainability.
Facilties & Campus 
Operations
Include sustainability as the 
main driver for logistics, space 
management and procurement 
activities in order to efficiently 
use resources and reduce 
environmental impact of the 
university.
2.388.700
2.388.700
2.388.700
People & Culture
Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness and 
well-being on campus and in the 
Luiss community considered as 
a whole. 
3.000
17.000
3.000
Communication & 
Engagement
Promote and communicate 
sustainability inside and outside 
the University for foster awarness 
and proper positioning.
1.155.900
1.208.400
1.158.400
 Diversity & Inclusion
Building a strong culture of 
inclusion and gender equality 
through the dissemination of 
specific actions in each of the 
areas of intervention.
52.517
131.380
118.978
Ufficio Etica, Responsabilità, 
Sostenibilità
Office dedicated to the 
development and coordination 
of projects.
130.000
170.000
170.000
Training
Projects
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Areas for intervention
Objective
2022
2023
2024
Didactics - Student Learning 
and Experiences
Integrate sustainability into 
students’ learning pathways and 
experiential activities involving 
them.
Faculty Scientific Research
Increase the Faculty’s 
commitment to quality research 
related to sustainability.
Facilities & Campus 
Operations
Include sustainability as the 
main driver for logistics, space 
management and procurement 
activities in order to efficiently 
use resources and reduce 
environmental impact of the 
university.
41.940
51.941
41.942
People & Culture
Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness and 
well-being on campus and in the 
Luiss community considered as 
a whole.
15.000
25.000
Communication & 
Engagement
Promote and communicate 
sustainability inside and outside 
the University for proper 
positioning.
33.000
103.000
33.000
 Diversity & Inclusion
Building a strong culture of 
inclusion and gender equality 
through the dissemination of 
specific actions in each of the 
areas of intervention.
8.400
11.800
9.050
Ufficio Etica, Responsabilità, 
Sostenibilità
Office dedicated to the 
development and coordination 
of projects
Areas for intervention
Objective
2022
2023
2024
Didactics - Student Learning 
and Experiences
Integrate su stainability into 
learning pathways of students 
and in the experiential activities 
that involve them.
11.141.700
11.141.700
11.151.700
Faculty Scientific Research
Increase the Faculty’s 
commitment to quality research 
related to sustainability.
10.000
Facilities & Campus 
Operations
Include sustainability as the 
main driver for logistics, space 
management and procurement 
activities in order to efficiently 
use resources
and reduce the environmental 
impact of the university.
People & Culture
Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness
and well-being on the campus 
and in the Luiss community
considered as a whole.
Communication & 
Engagement
Promote and communicate 
sustainability inside and
outside the University in order to 
promote awareness and proper 
positioning.
 Diversity & Inclusion
Build a strong culture of inclusion 
and gender equality through 
the dissemination of specific 
initiatives in each of the areas of 
intervention.
150.939
175.939
187.739
Ufficio Etica, Responsabilità, 
Sostenibilità
Office for the development and 
coordination of projects.
Communication
Financial Aid
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Areas for intervention
Objective
2022
2023
2024
Didactics - Student Learning 
and Experiences
Integrate sustainability into 
students’ learning pathways and 
experiential activities involving 
them.
12.736.800
12.736.800
12.746.800
Faculty Scientific Research
Increase the Faculty’s 
commitment to quality research 
related to sustainability.
10.000
Facilities & Campus 
Operations
Include sustainability as the 
main driver for logistics, space 
management and procurement 
activities in order to efficiently 
use resources and reduce 
environmental impact of the 
university.
2.430.640
2.495.641
2.485.642
People & Culture
Accelerate a culture of 
sustainability, inclusiveness and 
well-being on campus and in the 
Luiss community considered as 
a whole.
49.200
115.440
76.440
Communication & 
Engagement
Promote and communicate 
sustainability inside and 
outside the University for 
Foster awareness and a proper 
positioning.
1.188.900
1.311.400
1.191.400
 Diversity & Inclusion
Building a strong culture of 
inclusion and gender equality 
through the dissemination of 
specific actions in each of the 
areas of intervention.
219.856
379.319
366.527
Ufficio Etica, Responsabilità, 
Sostenibilità
Office dedicated to the 
development and coordination 
of projects.
130.000
170.000
175.000
Total
55

Luiss 
University
Viale Pola, 12
00198 Rome - Italy
luiss.it