SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 4. Ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for everyone
UPF is working on the following aspects related to this SDG:
Strategy, management and governance
- ACTE: acompanyament, mentoria i tutoria de l’estudiant
- Code of Ethics
- EDvolució
- Call for UPF Inclusió grants to assist dependent students and for special transport services for students with reduced mobility
- EUTOPIA
- UPF Strategic Plan 2016-2025
- Isabel de Villena Equality Plan
- Inclusion Plan
- University and Culture Program
- Support volunteer: student support or support for students with special education needs
- The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities network
Education and teaching
Subjects that incorporate this SDG
- 23286 Art Antic
- 32667 Big Data, Cultura i Societat
- 30886 Comunicació científica
- 23407 Discourse Analysis
- 31662 Discurs i cognició social
- 20169 Discursos i Tradicions Artístiques des de la Modernitat
- 32318 Els reptes de la interculturalitat
- 24212 Espais Interculturals, Llengües i Identitats
- 20004 Fonaments de la Història i la Teoria de l'Art
- 23256 Global History III
- 20020 Grans Tradicions Religioses
- 23348 Història Antiga d'Àsia
- 20017 Història Moderna
- 20006 Introducció als Estudis Literaris
- 20027 Llengua Francesa per a les Humanitats
- 23393 Peninsular Kingdoms of the Middle Ages
- 23518 Pensament i Religions d'Àsia
- 31838 Persecucions Ètniques i Genocidi
- 23621 Polítiques d'Igualtat de Gènere
- 21689 Polítiques d'Ocupació i Mercat de Treball
- 20005 Prehistòria
- 32134 Semàntica computacional
- 21965 Traducció 7 (alemany)
- 25319 Traducció del Primer Idioma (anglès) 2
- 32518 Traducció Especialitzada Xinès-Castellà
- 24487 Treball Fi de Grau
For more information on these you can find these subjects in the Teaching Activity Plan.
If you want to find teachers with experience in these topics look at the UPF experts guide.
Source:Details of the Teaching Activity Plan 2021-2022. Extracted on 15/7/2021
Resources for teachers who want to introduce social, economic and environmental sustainability in their subjects
- Guia ABPxODS: Disseny de projectes per desenvolupar les competències clau per a la sostenibilitat
- Engineering in the 2030 Agenda
Other related actions
- Vision seminars. The Conference 'Visions of an Unequal World' aims to show the counterpoints between the places and people who inhabit the planet, from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Research and transfer
Groups carrying out research on this SDG
- Barcelona Center for Banking Studies (Barcelona CBS)
- Center for Brain and Cognition
- Centre d'Investigació i Recerca en Metodologia de l'Enquesta (RECSM)
- CINEMA Col·lectiu d'Investigació Estètica dels Mitjans Audiovisuals
- Endocrine Regulatory Genomics
- GEDIT (Grup d’Estudis del Discurs i la Traducció)
- Grup d’Estudis de Traducció, Recepció i Literatura Catalana (TRILCAT)
- Grup de Recerca d'Arqueologia Mediterrània: Connexions, Materialitats i Escritura (GRACME)
- Grup de Recerca Dynamical Systems Biology
- Grup de Recerca Educativa en Ciències de la Salut (GRECS)
- Grup de Recerca en Aprenentatge i Ensenyament de Llengües
- Grup de Recerca en Dret Internacional Públic i Relacions Internacionals (GR-DIPRI)
- Grup de Recerca en Dret Mercantil del segle XXI
- Grup de Recerca en Espais Interculturals, Llengües i Identitats
- Grup de Recerca en Estats, Nacions i Sobiranies (GRENS)
- Grup de Recerca en Etnografia, Contactes Culturals i Missions als Imperis Ibèrics (ECERM)
- Grup de Recerca en Història de la Ciència i de la Cultura Moderna (GRHCCM)
- Grup de Recerca en Imperis, Metròpolis i Societats Extraeuropees (GRIMSE)
- Grup de Recerca en Informació Lexicogràfica (Infolex)
- Grup de Recerca en l'Assaig Humanístic i la Prosa d'Idees
- Grup de Recerca en Tecnologia Musical (unitat)
- Grup de Recerca MEDIUM
- Grup Haas de Recerca en Poètiques del Saber
- Nexus (Nexes entre ciència, cultura, política, religió i societat)
- ReDePro (Recerca en Dret Procesal)
- Tecnologies Interactives i Distribuïdes per a l'Educació (TIDE)
- Unitat d’Immunologia
- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva
- Unitat de Recerca en Economia i Empresa
- Unitat de Recerca en Lingüística (Ur-Ling)
- Unitat de Recerca en Periodisme i Documentació Digital
Source: Research Service: Information entered in the request for the 2023 Research Support Measures Plan
Años anteriores
Examples of projects working on this SDG (more information at the ods.cat website)
Projects in progress
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“Educational Common Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities– SMOOTH”. PI: Figueras Maz, Mònica SMOOTH looks to introduce the emerging ‘commons’ paradigm as an alternative value and action system in the field of education for children and young people. The project critically draws out the implications of the commons for refiguring education and for social change in general, on a footing of equality, sharing, participation, togetherness, caring and freedom. The project will address social inclusion according to the ‘educational commons’, to gain an insight into whether or not they can operate as a catalyst for reversing inequalities, through a variety of methods such as pedagogical documentation, the pedagogical active listening approach, ethnography and discourse analysis. Project start and end: 2021-2024. 
educoGEN: Metodología participativa audiovisual en educación secundaria para revertir las desigualdades de género. IP: Figueras Maz, Mònica i Co-IP Fernández-Planells, Ariadna (Universitat Politècnica de València). El projecte té com a objectiu avaluar l’impacte de la metodologia participativa audiovisual en l’àmbit educatiu per a la desconstrucció dels imaginaris i les pràctiques sexistes en adolescents d’entre 12 i 16 anys de diferents nivells socioeconòmics. Project start and end:2022-2025.-
Microdiachrony in endangered languages across modalities (MICRODIAC(H)RO). IP: Barberà Altimira, Gemma i Quer Villanueva, Jose Francisco. This project focuses on two endangered languages in different modalities: Catalan Sign Language (LSC, Catalonia) and Griko (Italiot- Greek variety of Salento, Southern Italy). Change in morphosyntactic properties within such languages has received very little attention so far. This project will make a novel contribution to fill this gap in research from a cross-modal perspective on two fronts: (a) exploring how diachronic change in a relatively small time span can be detected, described and accounted for (microdiachrony), and (b) creating research resources in the form of two corpora that include transcribed and annotated data to make the study of grammatical change feasible. Project start and end: 2021-2025. -
Millora digital col·lectiva a l'educació: inspiració informada, mútua i oberta (DICOLED). IP: Hernandez Leo, Davinia. DICOLED will launch activities aimed at the dissemination of Open Educational Resources (REO) on the best (non-university) classroom proposals that apply the Teaching Digital Competence and the digitization of educational centers, awareness of critical aspects of CDD (ethics, digital well-being) and facilitating processes for mutual inspiration. Project start and end: 2023-2024. -
OralGrab:Grabar vídeos y audios para enseñar y aprender. IP: Cassany Comas, Daniel. This project will contribute to better understanding the gradual multimodal digitization of education, explaining the decreasing preference for paper-based practices among all educational actors, relocating the role of writing while highlighting its relevance in multimodal education, with the goal of offering good practice models to scale the analyzed recordings in other educational levels. Project start and end: 2023-2026. -
Políticas lingüísticas e inclusión en la universidad internacionalizada: Foco sociolingüístico y educacional para impulsar la equidad, la diversidad y la interculturalidad (INCLU-LINGUAM). IP: Trenchs Parera, Mireia . The INCLU-LINGUAM project aims to bring the inclusion and equity dimensions to (1) the growing research on internationalization at universities, and (2) the design of higher education plurilingual language policies. Project start and end: 2023-2027. -
Razón pública global: derechos humanos, legitimidad democrática y cambio demográfico (GLOPUR). IP: Moreso Mateos, Josep Joan. Our proposal aims to develop the idea of global public reason in three areas in which we have already worked in the framework of the projects of AEI, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the ERC: 1) the general theory of law; 2) the theory of legitimacy and human rights; and 3) the intergenerational justice and demographic change. Project start and end: 2021-2024. -
REACT. Research-action against Antigypsyism and Anti-Muslim Discrimination: An intersectional approach to deconstruct Institutional Racism in schools. IP: Hellgren, Zenia Agnes Andrea. The REACT project examines subtle forms of exclusion and “native preference”, which can become major barriers for students of minority backgrounds. Specifically, this project focuses on two groups that existing research deems to be among those most affected by educational inequalities and by racism in society in general: Roma and Muslim students. The project applies an intersectional perspective and considers the importance of gender/gender identity and social class for individual experiences of negative prejudices. Project start and end: 2022-2024. -
(UNIVAC) La accesibilidad sensorial en la universidad española: necesidades actuales y soluciones para el futuro. IP: Arias Badia, Blanca. The project aims to analyse how universities in Spain respond to the needs of people with sensory disabilities in order to offer an evidence-based diagnosis of the state of affairs in our university system. This diagnosis is a step towards the implementation of appropriate measures to guarantee access to quality education in the context of an increasing digitisation. Project start and end: 2022-2024.
Projects finalised
Democratic Memory and legal Education: diagnosi and proposals of improvement . PI: Aragoneses Aguado, Alfons. The research seeks to make a diagnosis of the presence of the study of dictatorships, memory and transitional justice in Spanish legal education.Project start and end: 2021-2022.-
“HEIRRI (Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation)”. PI: Revuelta de la Poza, Gema. The HEIRRI project seeks to integrate the concept of “Responsible Research and Innovation” (RRI) in university science and technology degrees, in such a way that research and innovation can respond to society’s needs, values and expectations. Project start and end: 2015 - 2018. -
”Interculturalismo: efectos en el pensamiento divergente y comportamientos intergrupales”. PI: Benet Martínez, Verónica. This project examines (1) the interplay of relational, identity, cognitive, and personality factors in intercultural experience, and (2) whether different types of intercultural experiences (interpersonal or non-interpersonal, counterstereotypical or stereotypical) facilitate or hinder two key ingredients of social capital: creativity and positive intergroup attitudes. The project aims to test the premise that higher creativity and lower prejudice result from intercultural contact that is embedded in one’s habitual social networks and is stereotypically challenging. Project start and end: 2016-2021. -
"Planetary Wellbeing" PI: Martí, José Luis.The aim of this initiative is to promote multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary action in the field of planetary welfare, with the aim of providing the university with a vision committed to the great challenges of society in the 21st century. -
“Technology Enhanced Learning of Musical Instrument Performance, TELMI”.PI: Ramirez Melendez, Rafael The main aim of the TELMI project is to study how we learn to play musical instruments, using the violin as a practical case study, from a pedagogical and scientific perspective. Based on this, new interactive systems are created, which support and facilitate self-learninging, and which facilitate and increase feedback. These systems will complement traditional teaching methods. Project start and end: 2016-2019. -
The SIGN-HUB: Preserving, researching and fostering the linguistic, historical and cultural heritage of European Deaf signing communities with an integral resource. IP: Quer Villanueva, Jose Francisco. SIGN-HUB has been designed by a European research team to provide an innovative and inclusive resource hub for the linguistic, historical and cultural documentation of the Deaf communities’ heritage and for sign language assessment in clinical intervention and school settings. Inici i fi del projecte: 2016-2020. -
TRANSLINGUAM-UNI: Competència transcultural en aules universitàries multilingües i multiculturals amb plena docència en anglès. Llengües, actituds, sensibilitat intercultural i identitat. IP: Trenchs Parera, Mireia. The project TRANSLINGUAM-UNI aims to investigate whether multilingual and multicultural undergraduate university classrooms with full English-medium instruction encourage the development of transcultural competence among students, and to what extent. Project start and end: 2019-2022.
Examples of research projects (TFG, TFM and thesis) on this SDG
- Diagnosi de les finances ètiques a Espanya: anàlisi de l’oferta i la demanda Tarruell Landauro, Jan Pol (2020) TFG
- The controversial side of CRM: study on the effect of cause-related marketing on consumers’ perception of social causes Armayones Carranza, Laura; Martínez Gámez, Natalia; Pallaruelo Medina, Elisa; Stoicev Stefoglo, Olivia (2021) TFG
- (Un)loveable monsters: representations of bisexual women as monstruous in audiovisual fiction Arévalo Trigo, Andrea (2021) TFM
- Régimen disciplinario y mujeres presas : un análisis criminológico con perspectiva de género Batlle Manonelles, Ares (2020) Tesis.
- Gender-based persecution at the international, European and Spanish levels: obstacles and challenges Kowalyszyn, Clarisa Irina (2021) TFM
- La pantalla, el cuerpo, la herida : hacia una política de representación somato-afectiva de la vulnerabilidad queer. Blanco Fernández, Vítor (2019) TFM
- Barreras y oportunidades para la participación de las mujeres en las decisiones relacionadas con la atención del parto. López Toribio, María; Bravo Valenzuela, Paulina. (2019) TFM
- Food sustainability and education in the European Union: state-of-the-art review of European Union’s public policies and degree of incorporation of food sustainability to education. Hoyos i de la Cuesta, Laia. (2022) TFG.
Source: e-repository UPF Research Tesis (Data as of 2004). e-repository UPF Student Work (Data as of 2015).
Spin-offs
- MedBioinformatics Solutions S.L: Software and consultancy on the genetic basis of diseases
- Music Muni Labs, S.L: Technological solutions in the field of music education and infotainment
- Voctro Labs SL: Technologies to generate artificial voices
Source: Innovation Unit
Social commitment
- Access to the library
- Open Classroom
- University Extension Classrooms for Senior Citizens
- APCE-UPF chair in Housing and Future
- Barcelona UPF chair in Housing Studies
- Barcelona UPF chair in Local Economic Policy
- DE-CIX chair
- Eugin-UPF chair
- Fractus-UPF chair in Tech Transfer and 6G
- Ideograma-UPF chair in Political Communication and Democracy
- Càtedra QUAES-UPF
- Re | Generation chair
- Telefónica chair: Cognitive IoT (UPF)
- Free, open courses on the SDGs - UPF Solidària - Visions of an Unequal World Conference
- UPF Debates - World
- Humanistic Dialogues
- The Faculty in the Neighbourhood
- Prisons Debate League
- Lower and upper secondary school Debate League
- MOOC
- RESPONSE UPF. Knowledge Platform for Responsible Strategic Communication promoted by the Bachelor's degree in Advertising and Public Relations.
- Senior programme
- Volunteer programs
- School remedial classes volunteer projects