How Can Higher Education Institutions Contribute to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Actions, Monitoring and Reporting

The principles of sustainability are becoming increasingly relevant. Against this back-ground, the UN developed the 17 SDGs. HEI teaching plays a key role in achieving the SDGs, as graduates should be equipped with skills that enable them to tackle the large and complex sustainability problems. However, monitoring and reporting in HEI is currently inadequate and needs to be improved accordingly. This article presents three areas of HEI teaching that can be used to promote sustainability skills among students. Subsequently, monitoring and reporting at HEIs is analyzed in order to compare different frameworks for monitoring and reporting for being applied to HEIs.