UniGe provides students with "The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals" mini course (3h) developed by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), available both in Italian and in English.
UniGe also offers the opportunity to access the UniGe Sustainability Course (designed as a Pilot Lesson), within the Citizenship Training Modules to all students enrolled in the University's undergraduate, master's and PhD programs. The course addresses sustainability by considering a multiplicity of aspects, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The different topics are covered by 13 UniGe lecturers from various disciplines, who provide interesting insights in a series of short slots, recorded thanks to the support of UniGe e-learning, multimedia and web tools service.
The course is available online in the second semester of each academic year.
The course syllabus can be viewed here.
The course presentation can be viewed here.
To enrol, students must first add the UniGe Sustainability Course to their Study Plan (instructions are available on the Online Student Services portal at the following link, or you may request support from your Student Services Office). They must then complete the enrolment on the course page on Aulaweb (see the link below for the current academic year).
Passing the final test allows students to obtain 1 additional ECTS credit registered in the Diploma Supplement, as well as a UniGe Open Badge. In some cases, the credit may instead be recognised as a curricular ECTS credit (usually within the category of “other activities”) where this is considered relevant to achieving the learning objectives of the degree programme (subject to a request submitted by email to the Student Services Offices and approval by the relevant degree programme).
Link to the latest edition: Inter-school Courses a.y. 2024/2025 – Sustainability Course
(PLEASE NOTE: The online Aulaweb course for the a.y. 2024/2025 is available online from 13/05/2025. The course must be added to the Study Plan).
Several Bachelor's and Master 's degree programs offered by the University of Genoa are strongly focused on or include topics related to sustainability from different perspectives (from environmental protection to energy management, from aspects of inclusion and social justice to those of environmental economics and sustainable finance).
A list of all degree programs can be found here.
The complete educational offer with the individual courses can be found here. (You can filter titles by keywords and view for each teaching the Agenda 2030 Goals considered, if included by the lecturer - work in progress).
Also as Higher Education (Doctorates, Master's Degrees, Postgraduate Schools and Training Courses) UniGe offers a variety of possibilities to delve into the themes of Sustainability.
Since 2021 UniGe has offered the opportunity to participate in the national trans-disciplinary doctoral course in Sustainable Development and Climate Change, coordinated by Scuola Superiore IUSS Pavia, in partnership with more than 30 Italian universities. Sustainability issues are also addressed in many other doctoral tracks at UniGe.
In 2024, the Level II master's degree "Energy and Sustainability" was inaugurated, a professionalizing and cross-curricular path to explore technological and legislative issues in the field of sustainability and energy transition.
The Postgraduate Course in "Designing the Smart City," at the Department of Economics - DIEC, in collaboration with the Genoa Smart City Association, has been active for several years, while the Postgraduate Course in "Smart and Sustainable Mobility, " by the Italian Center of Excellence on Logistics Transport and Infrastructure was activated in 2024. These are just a few examples; please refer to the Higher Education pages for the full list (here).