The project had several objectives and successful met the stated objectives, which were: 1) To bridge the gap between sector-divided, discipline-embedded national curricula in higher education (HE). 2) To address the current need for competence-based, integrated, interdisciplinary, and transformative HE that is in line with the 17 UN SDGs, the EC Erasmus+ program and the 21st Century learning goals. This will positively impact future HE curricula, learning objectives, digitalisation readiness, transversal skills and effective intercultural communication for students from diverse educations. 3) To facilitate that students can participate in the developed courses as an attractive supplement and added value to their respective educations. 4) To facilitate that HEI teachers can participate in the developed SustainComp 'learning, teaching, training' activity, as a supplement and added value to their respective academic educational backgrounds. 5) To ensure that the developed materials, courses, reports become available to all interested via open access on the developed 'teacher support system website'. 6) To facilitate the development of online and onsite collaboration among students and teachers via support systems website.
Major problems in the EU and in the world regarding health, environment, and climate-change constitute an enormous challenge for the continued prosperity of citizens and countries, as it appears from the European Green Deal Communication and the Erasmus+ program 2021. The solutions to the problems are complex and increase the demand for cross-border, North-South EU, educational and intercultural collaboration in the educational sector at HEIs. The project sought to place the partnership between four experienced European Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) at the center of a much-needed development of a future-oriented curriculum. The need for this stemmed from the lack of a curriculum within sustainable development at the participating HEIs in the early 2020’s. Instead of each HEI developing its own curriculum, the partners engaged in developing a common curriculum for HEIs, across general subject taught in Europe. It bridges the gap between former educational, sector-divided curricula and the increasing need for a versatile, integrated and transformative Higher Education curriculum that is in accordance with the European Council Erasmus+ program, the 21st Century Skills and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).