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PhD in Environmental Engineering and professor in the ‘Environmental Technologies’ area in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Environment at the School of Engineering in Bilbao. Since 2017 she is the Director of Sustainability and Social Commitment at the UPV / EHU. She is in charge of promoting and planning, along with the Vice-Rectorrate of Scientific and Social Development and Knowledge Transfer. She is a member of the Academic Committee of the Master Circular Economy: Business Aplication. Furthermore, she is the vicepresident of the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS).

Ambientologist and Doctor in Environmental Education, specialized in sustainability assessment at local and university scale He works in the Association “Transitando”, for Ecology and Education for cities’ sustainable transition. There, he develops research and educational and participatory activities related to urban ecology, sustainability policies and evaluation. Appart from this, he is a researcher and associate professor in the Department of Specific Didactics at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

She holds a PhD in Law and is a lecturer in Civil Law at the UPV/EHU. Her main line of research is bioethics, a subject on which she has published several monographs and scientific and dissemination articles. She has participated in 4 European research projects of the VI and VII European Framework Programme, as well as in multiple research projects of the National Programme. She has been a visiting professor at the Hastings Center for Bioethics in New York, the Center for Bioethics at the University of Philadelphia and the University of Bordeaux. She was Secretary General of Eusko Ikaskuntza, and later of Jakiunde, Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Vice-rector of quality and teaching innovation at the UPV/EHU between 2008 and 2012, and responsible for the development of the educational model, as well as quality programmes, and training and evaluation of university teaching staff. Between 2013 and 2015, she was Deputy Minister of Universities and Research of the Basque Government.

Full Professor of Ecology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. From 1995 to 2003 he was delegate of the rector of the Environment and from 2003 to 2009 Vice-rector of Campus and Environmental Quality. In 2003, it promoted the creation of the CRUE Working Group on Environment and Sustainability. In 2011 he participated in the Technical Commission of the report "The Social Responsibility of the University and Sustainable Development", responsible of the study "Evaluation of university sustainability policies in Spanish universities" and coordinator of the project "Definition of sustainability indicators in Latin American Universities". Between 2000 - 2012 he coordinated an interuniversity doctorate program about Environmental Education. He has been co-director of the project "Assessment of the Millennium Ecosystems and Biodiversity of Spain". Since 2015 he is Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Urban Planning and Sustainability in Soto del Real and member of the REDS Advisory Council.

He is director of Euskampus Fundazioa, founded in 2011 by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tecnalia Corporation and the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). He worked as assistant professor in the Faculty of Sciences of the UPV/EHU, international projects manager in Gamesa Energy, researcher and project manager at LABEIN- Tecnalia, project and outreach manager in the Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center- nanoGUNE, manager of the nanoBasque Strategy in the Basque Business Development Agency- SPRI, and director of DeustoTech. He holds a PhD in Physics from UPV/EHU, and a master degree in journalism and science communication from the Spanish Open University. He is the author of more than 70 international scientific publications indexed in the Web of knowledge,and author of 3 international patents. He has been awarded as one of the word-leading “Boundary Spanners” for University Business Cooperation by the University Industry Innovation Network.

Researcher at the University of Bologna since 2018, he carries out his research in the field of the Sustainable Development Goals, the circular economy and the urban transition. Research interests focus in particular on the implementation of the SDGs in universities, cities and companies, with a bottom-up approach to sustainable innovation and urban resilience. Expert in startups and social innovation with lean green startup and design bases.

Idoia Fernández is Professor in te Department of Educational Sciences, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She has been director of the Educational Counseling Service (2010-2017) and Vice-rector for Innovation, Social Commitment and Cultural Action (2017-2021). He has led several innovation, development and research projects in the field of teaching and learning in Higher Education. She has been Vice-President for Europe of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOLT) in 2016-2017 and member of the State Network of University Teaching (REDU) since 2014. Currently she is member of de Governing Board of the Basque Agency for Quality, Unibasq.

She is responsible for the Spanish office of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development (REDS), an international network sponsored by the United Nations to promote global sustainable development (SDSN). Previously, he has developed his professional career in the cultural sector, where he has directed and coordinated projects for the Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga or the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, among other institutions. Likewise, it has collaborated since its creation with the INTRA Foundation, an NGO that works for the labor insertion of people at risk of social exclusion, and directs the annual conferences "Sustainability and cultural institutions". She has a degree in Economic Sciences and Art History from the University of Valencia and a Master in management and communication of cultural policies from the LUMSA University (Italy).

Professor of Basque Philology (1992) and Honorary Collaborator of the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU). Doctor from the University of Geneva (1983) in the area of ​​Psycholinguistics. He is part of the ELEBILAB research group (https://www.ehu.eus/eu/web/elebilab) where he has directed numerous research projects on language acquisition in bilingual children, on discursive analysis of Basque and on language teaching in bi-multilingual programs (Garcia-Azkoaga & Idiazabal (Eds.) 2015). He has supervised 15 doctoral theses. She is the founder and member of the UNESCO Chair of World Linguistic Heritage of the UPV / EHU https://www.ehu.eus/eu/web/mho-unesco-katedra, where she has recently published a volume on linguistic diversity and sustainable development www .labur.eus / IdiazabalPerezCaurel He is a corresponding member of Euskaltzaindia (Academy of the Basque language).

He is Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSI Informatic Systems). His research field is training in social responsibility, sustainability and professional ethics skills in engineering studies. His doctoral thesis focused on cases of computer and industrial engineering. Among his current teaching, there are subjects such as "Ethical and social aspects" and "Science, technology and society”. He is a member of the Center for Innovation and Technology for Development (itdUPM), as well as the Research Group on Sustainable Organizations, of the research team of the EDINSOST 2-ODS project (Integration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the sustainability training of Spanish university degrees) and the group on Curricular Sustainability of the Sectorial CRUE Sustainability.

Es profesora e investigadora Beatriz Galindo en la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Girona y directora ejecutiva de Copernicus Alliance. Es Doctora en Sostenibilidad por la Universidad de Gloucestershire, especializada en pedagogía transformadora, aprendizaje social y cambio institucional para el desarrollo sostenible en educación superior.

Catedrática de Ecología y directora de la Cátedra UNESCO de Desarrollo Sostenible y Educación Ambiental en la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). Profesora en la titulación de Biología así como en enseñanzas de Master y Doctorado. Es miembro del Consejo Científico del programa MaB-UNESCO de Reservas de Biosfera Es responsable del Master en Medio Ambiente y Sostenibilidad de la UPV/EHU y ha dirigido 14 Tesis doctorales y 25 Tesis de Master. Ha sido profesora visitante en varias universidades europeas (Universidad de Oxford, U.K.), así como en: Universidad de Veracruz, México; Universidad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, Universidad de Nevada-Reno, USA. La temática de investigación se centra en el estudio de la biodiversidad y en la evaluación los ecosistemas, con aplicación a la ordenación sostenible del territorio. Ha publicado diversos artículos en revistas científicas, libros y capítulos de libro, así como publicaciones de carácter docente y divulgativo.

Dr Kate Roll is a political scientist interested in vulnerability, with a particular focus on the factors that enable people in poverty to gain greater social and economic security. At IIPP, Dr Roll serves as an Assistant Professor in Innovation, Development and Purpose. Dr Roll’s research is broadly divided into two streams, the first concerning economies of peace, with a focus on the politics of benefits programmes for former combatants. The second stream critically engages with private sector approaches to development, particularly ‘base of the pyramid’ route-to-market programmes. Dr Roll holds a DPhil in Politics (2015) and an MPhil in International Development Studies (2011) from the University of Oxford. Dr Roll’s doctoral fieldwork involved logging over 1,000 km on a motorbike, crisscrossing Timor-Leste to conduct a representative survey interviews with over 220 registered former combatants – now one of the largest of its kind.

He is currently Data and Analytics Director for TES Global, helping to create new and innovative data products across the Higher Education and education sectors. He is listed in the top 50 data leaders in the United Kingdom by Information Age, and as one of DataIQ's Big Data 100. He was the creator of the THE Impact Rankings, based on the SDGs. In addition, he regularly speaks at business conferences and have several published papers on aspects of data-mining for business profit. He was part of the team that founded the Society of Data Miners.

Director of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) and Executive Secretary of the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). Specialist in public management and public policies and in higher education and research management. He holds an experience of thirty years on different leading positions on public sector organizations as well as on different higher education institutions. He has promoted and participated in various projects and groups of experts of the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Spain, the European Commission, the OECD, UNESCO, and several countries in education and universities, political science and public policy management.

PhD in Environmental Engineering and professor in the ‘Environmental Technologies’ area in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Environment at the School of Engineering in Bilbao. Since 2017 she is the Director of Sustainability at the UPV / EHU. It is in charge of promoting and planning, along with the Vice-Rector for Innovation, Social Commitment and Cultural Action, the lines of action in the field of sustainability and social commitment: management, teaching, research and transfer. It has been in charge of coordinating the EHUagenda 2030 plan for sustainable development, as well as the indicator panel for its monitoring. Furthermore, he is a member of the Basque Council for Development Cooperation and the Advisory Council of the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS).