Sustainability Offices and Global Sustainability Strategies. Making Universities part of the Global Transition to Sustainability.

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a crucial role in the Global Transitiontowards Sustainability. This handbook describes how HEIs can contribute tothis transition by developing sustainability strategies which are complementaryto policy agendas, such as the Agenda 2030 with its SDGs or the EuropeanGreen Deal. It is argued that sustainability strategies at universities need to belinked to internationalization and transfer strategies. Finally, the handbookpresents good practices related to the set up of Global Sustainability Strategies(GSS) and Sustainability Offices (SO) at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs),which were collected by a European-wide ad-hoc survey.