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Achieving sustainable development will not be possible without the effective integration of education for sustainable development (ESD) at all educational levels. However, to include these aspects in the university context, it is necessary to provide professors with mechanisms, resources and tools that allow the transmission of social and environmental concerns of our society to the students, obtaining as a result informed and responsible professionals in their fields of specialization. In this context, the objective of this paper is to present successful learning experiences which introduce the concept of sustainability in the area of business studies, and promote a more responsible professional development of the university business students. Moreover, these experiences could help university educators in their ESD professional development. These innovative experiences have been applied in the Spanish University System. The findings of this research bring knowledge about the understanding of the sustainability concept in a high education context.
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This work has been supported by the Educational Support Unit (USE) at the Universitat Jaume I and the Master’s Degree in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility offered by Universitat Jaume I-UNED (Spain).
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Escrig-Olmedo, E., Fernández-Izquierdo, M.Á., Ferrero-Ferrero, I., León-Soriano, R., Muñoz-Torres, M.J., Rivera-Lirio, J.M. (2017). Fostering the Professionalization of Business Students Through Education for Sustainable Development at University. In: Leal Filho, W., Brandli, L., Castro, P., Newman, J. (eds) Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education . World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47868-5_4
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