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
- Declaració de Barcelona sobre l’obertura de la informació de recerca
- UPF Strategic Plan 2016-2025
- Isabel de Villena Equality Plan
- Inclusion Plan
- University and Culture Program
- UPF salary scholarship program for undergraduate students of the Pompeu Fabra University
- 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
Source: List of the Teaching Activity Plan for the academic year 2024-2025.
Previous courses
- 2023-2024. Source: List of the Teaching Activity Plan for the academic year 2023-2024.
- 2022-2023. Source: List of the Teaching Activity Plan for the academic year 2022-2023.
- 2021-2022. Source: List of the Teaching Activity Plan for the academic year 2021-2022
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.
Resources for teachers who want to introduce social, economic and environmental sustainability in their subjects
- Debats constructius
- 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
- 2025. Source: Research Service. Information entered in the request for the 2025 Research Support Measures Plan
Table of research groups and the SDG
Source: Research Service: Information entered in the request for the Research Support Measures Plan
Años anteriores
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2024. Source: Research Service. Information entered in the request for the 2024 Research Support Measures Plan
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2023. Source: Research Service. Information entered in the request for the 2023 Research Support Measures Plan
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2022. Source: Research Service. Information entered in the request for the 2022 Research Support Measures Plan
Examples of projects working on this SDG
Projects in progress
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DIXIMED. IP: Estopà Bagot, Rosa. The objective of DIXIMED is to facilitate children's understanding of medical terms. As part of this project, a website has been developed, which includes an illustrated medical dictionary, infographics, atlases, games targeted at children aged 6 to 12, and a specialized vocabulary on the pandemic with infographics aimed at children aged 6 to 12 and adolescents aged 12 to 16. The application is available in Catalan, Spanish, and Galician, and work is underway on versions in Basque and English. Project start: 2017.
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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.
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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.
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Léxico médico y definición: la construcción dinámica del significado terminológico a través de un corpus lexicográfico escolar (LEXMED). IP: Estopà Bagot, Rosa. The LEXMED project aims to establish the relationship between lexicon and the construction of meaning in a corpus of medical term definitions, characterize the influence of historical health events on the construction of meaning of medical terms among the school population, and provide models for the development of specialized learning dictionaries. Project start and end: 2022-2025
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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VEB. El vocabulari especialitzat bàsic en l’ensenyament obligatori; buidatge i anàlisi de la terminologia d’un corpus de llibres de textos escolars. IP: Estopà Bagot, Rosa. The aim of the project is to find out what is the terminology used in the textbooks of compulsory education in Catalan for various compulsory subjects. Project start and end: 2025
Projects finalised
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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.
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“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.
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”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.
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"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.
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“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.
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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.
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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
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“ITS time to share”: Campanya al Share Festival en col·laboració amb el Centre Jove d’Atenció a les Sexualitats. Júlia Luelmo Rodríguez, Irene Villena Vila i Laura Casaña Pardo. (2025) TFG
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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.
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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
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(Un)loveable monsters: representations of bisexual women as monstruous in audiovisual fiction Arévalo Trigo, Andrea (2021) TFM
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Gender-based persecution at the international, European and Spanish levels: obstacles and challenges Kowalyszyn, Clarisa Irina (2021) TFM
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Diagnosi de les finances ètiques a Espanya: anàlisi de l’oferta i la demanda Tarruell Landauro, Jan Pol (2020) TFG
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Régimen disciplinario y mujeres presas : un análisis criminológico con perspectiva de género Batlle Manonelles, Ares (2020) Tesis.
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La pantalla, el cuerpo, la herida : hacia una política de representación somato-afectiva de la vulnerabilidad queer. Blanco Fernández, Vítor (2019) TFM
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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
Source: e-repository UPF Research Tesis (Data as of 2004). e-repository UPF Student Work (Data as of 2015).
Spin-offs and Start-ups
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MedBioinformatics Solutions S.L: Software and consultancy on the genetic basis of diseases
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Music Muni Labs, S.L: Technological solutions in the field of music education and infotainment
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Voctro Labs SL: Technologies to generate artificial voices
Source: Innovation Unit
Social commitment
- Access to the library
- APCE-UPF chair in Housing and Future
- Barcelona UPF chair in Housing Studies
- Barcelona UPF chair in Local Economic Policy
- Càtedra QUAES-UPF
- Cycle of Reflection and Debate on University Teaching
- DE-CIX chair
- Eugin-UPF chair
- Fractus-UPF chair in Tech Transfer and 6G
- Free, open courses on the SDGs - UPF Solidària - Visions of an Unequal World Conference
- Humanistic Dialogues
- Ideograma-UPF chair in Political Communication and Democracy
- Lower and upper secondary school Debate League
- MOOC
- Open Classroom
- Prisons Debate League
- Re | Generation chair
- RESPONSE UPF. Knowledge Platform for Responsible Strategic Communication promoted by the Bachelor's degree in Advertising and Public Relations.
- Senior programme
- Telefónica chair: Cognitive IoT (UPF)
- The Faculty in the Neighbourhood
- Volunteer programs
- School remedial classes volunteer projects
- University Extension Classrooms for Senior Citizens
- UPF Debates - World
- Unimentor