(Huesca, April 24, 2025). The 2nd Unizar Conference on Sustainability Challenges will take place this Friday, April 25, simultaneously on the Huesca and Zaragoza campuses. Students from a variety of degree programs will present around twenty papers on topics related to the 2030 Agenda and sustainability in social, economic, technological, and educational contexts. The event will be held from 9:00 AM to 2:15 PM at the Faculty of Humanities and Education in Huesca (Calle Valentín Carderera, 4), and at the Center for Innovation, Training, and Research in Education Sciences, in Zaragoza (Calle Pedro Cerbuna, 12).

Approximately 125 students, split equally between the two campuses, have registered for this second edition of the event, which will recognize the best academic papers—developed within undergraduate or master’s courses—that incorporate sustainability as a transversal competency.

 

Students in Early Childhood and Primary Education, Geography and Spatial Planning, Environmental Science, Tourism, and several Engineering fields—including Agri-Food and Rural Engineering, Mechanical, Chemical, and Data Engineering—will deliver a dozen presentations at each venue, all of which will be streamed between the two campuses.

Topics include climate change adaptation, management of agricultural and livestock waste, schoolyard rewilding, tourism management, landscape impacts, educational use of river and natural environments, the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence, environmental concerns in mining, the ecological footprint of the textile industry, and the relationship between literature and the SDGs. Many presentations focus on case studies from towns and regions in Aragon—such as Huesca and La Hoya, Villanueva de Gállego, Estercuel, Rubielos de la Cérida, Andorra, or Torralba de los Sisones—as well as from other regions, including Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real).

The initiative aims to integrate sustainability as a cross-cutting competency within university education, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda, while also giving students the opportunity to participate in a scientific congress setting. The event is promoted by the Vice-Rectorate for Planning and Sustainability, the Center for Innovation, Training, and Research in Education Sciences, and the University Institute for Environmental Sciences of Aragon (IUCA), in collaboration with various faculties and schools of Unizar.

🔗 Full program:
https://eventos.unizar.es/128528/programme/ii-jornada-de-retos-de-sostenibilidad.html