The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at improving life in all its dimensions, covering all sectors, with a particular emphasis on education. The study presented here focuses on universities as priority organisations and agents of change within the sphere of their social commitment. We thus conducted an analysis of the related scientific production as well as a bibliometric mapping, identifying the main publications indexed in the Web of Science, within its main collection. Focusing on scientific production, we examine the types of documents published, the evolution of the number of publications, the countries of origin of the publications, the most cited sources and articles, together with the most productive authors and a co-citation analysis. Regarding the bibliometric mapping analysis, the five core clusters included in the study were: SDGs in general; SDG 4 on Quality Education; Education for Sustainable Development; Higher Education; and Education Management. Among the main conclusions reached, we would emphasise the need for a change in role and function of university education to tackle sustainable development.

The global challenge of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals present a framework of opportunities, in which universities must respond to the demands of a sustainable social organisation by addressing the issues of quality education, the participation and inclusion of different sectors, and the need to promote university social responsibility. In response to this situation, we examine three experiences that highlight the reorganisation demanded at each of the three organisational levels: (1) Macro: the need for cooperation between different universities in Chile’s “macrocampus”; (2) Meso: the organisation and running of faculties in light of the challenges to renew curriculums with the experience implemented by the Social Sciences Faculty of Pablo de Olavide University in Spain; and, (3) Micro: the integration of students and commitment to the needs of the social surroundings, with the E-QUIPU experience implemented at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in Peru. The report we present is based on a case study, and the findings and conclusions lead us to propose a new holistic-organisational paradigm to facilitate the sustainability of universities. The results of the restructuring allowed us to conduct a meta-evaluation of the sustainability of organisations within a problematic situation (COVID-19), which tested the results of the restructuring objective of Cybersociety.

La Agenda 2030 establece un marco de acción y de cambio para el conjunto de la ciudadanía. El reto de integrar dicha agenda en todos los ámbitos educativos nos lleva a cuestionarnos cómo podemos abordarlos desde la universidad. Por ello, la finalidad del presente artículo es evaluar el impacto que ha ejercido el único máster oficial que se imparte en España en Educación para el Desarrollo cuando se cumplen diez años de su implantación en nuestro país. Debe tenerse en cuenta que dichos estudios persiguen un cambio integral en el alumnado desde el enfoque de la ciudadanía crítica y el empoderamiento en la sociedad en red. Así, presentamos un análisis realizado tomando como población de estudio a los 221 estudiantes que lo han cursado hasta ahora. Los resultados se centran en las tres dimensiones esenciales: progreso académico; empleabilidad, y generación de valores y compromiso. De los datos se concluye que la evolución natural del máster ha alcanzado los tres grandes objetivos inicialmente planteados: formaciónintervención, concienciación-compromiso y acción por el cambio global.