The goal of this event is to show our progress on the project EESF. It pursues to develops educational resources for the engineering students in order to acquire the needed skills and competences, responding to SDG 4.7 and the EU Green Deal's call for equipping learners with sustainable development skills by 2030.

The integration of sustainability into engineering education is an essential step towards preparing future engineers who are capable of leading us towards a more sustainable world. By embedding these principles into their educational journey, students are empowered to innovate and create with sustainability at the forefront of their minds, ensuring that the engineering feats of tomorrow are built on a foundation of ecological and social responsibility.

This is especially important for the aerospace engineering profession, as it is fully aware on the need to incorporate sustainability in its processes. This incorporation is currently in progress, being the initiatives that the UPM and specifically the ETSIAE is performing in this regard. 

Being aware on this importance, the EESF project was created. This is a co-funded project by the European Commission under the Erasmus + programme. Its activities have the main goal to provide educators with resources to help embed these sustainable-related skills and competences on engineering students.

Our research activities lead to release two reports assessing current sustainability teaching and highlighting effective practices, ultimately enhancing the integration of sustainability into engineering education.

This follows to the development of Open Educational resources (OERs) which aims to provide engineering educators with the tools and skills to integrate SDGs into their teaching, enhancing existing curricula. We hope that these resources resul ton boosting educator confidence and student understanding of sustainability challenges.

In this session we present the progress on the work of these activities and to particularize in the case of aerospace engineering education.