GOVERNANCE, MISSION, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN LISBON
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v22.n7.4162Keywords:
Governance, HEIs, SDGs, Strategic Plan, Social ResponsibilityAbstract
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) not only can but must fulfill a mission that goes beyond the limits of their traditional purpose of production, reproduction, dissemination and conservation of knowledge. The Higher Education Institution located in Lisbon in the Strategic Development Plan 2021-2024 elects as one of its vectors of strategic development - SDV4: Sustainability, Relations with the Environment and Social Responsibility - "commitment to Sustainability, with the relations with Society and with the promotion of a culture and praxis of Social Responsibility”. The study analyzes like this higher education institution practices that contribute to SR and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting how the Institution incorporates these practices and objectives in its teaching, research and knowledge extension activities. The descriptive research allowed us, at the end of the article, to outline possible directions for good practices of Social Responsibility for other higher education institutions.
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