Institutional greening, Strategy for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in an Institution of Higher Education in Colombia

Abstract

Higher education institutions must be the engines and transportation of sustainable development, since they guide knowledge, apply research and influence society by responding to its dynamics of change and consolidation. Today sustainable development is promoted through the SDGs, as a global commitment to well-being. Universities participate in sustainability and the SDGs from two main focuses, appropriating them with actions in their administrative and functional management and articulated to their substantive functions of teaching, research and extension. The experiences of IES of Colombia in environmental responsibility is assumed from a management system or an operational plan. The Santander UTS Technology Units are a Colombian Higher Education Institution with a high level of social impact, their commitment to sustainability with the institutional greening strategy, streng their administrative management, compliance with their substantive functions and generating articulated results with The SDGs, The formulation of the Institutional Environmental Sustainability Plan gathers the validated elements, as structur of the sustainability of the IES and proposes the execution of actions that, with a vision of environmental sustainability, comprehensively improve the institution and its environment, appropriating institutional greening to contribute to global sustainability.