Lambrechts, W., Van den Haute, H. en Vanhoren, I. (2009). "Making progress towards sustainable higher education: design of an implementation model with guiding principles", paper presented at the Euclides Meeting (University College of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, 27-29 May 2009).

Abstract – The purpose of sustainable higher education is to prepare today’s students – or tomorrow’s decision makers – to the complex challenges of the future. The visions on how this process should be realised are very diverse, going from simply ‘adding the theme’ to the curriculum to a complete transition of higher education. This paper focuses on the realisation of sustainable higher education within the framework of an individual institution of higher education, because this is regarded as a first, feasible step in the process of complete transition towards sustainable higher education. Within the Leuven University College (KHLeuven) the possibility of defining a model with implementation strategies and guiding principles for the realisation of sustainable higher education, was the subject of a research project between 2005 and 2008. The model is not a universally applicable blueprint, but it offers generic values for other institutions of higher education. A concise description of the model will be given, with particular attention to the topics of education, research and operations.