In order to encourage the debate on the adhestion of Spanish universities to the Objetives for Sustainable Development (ODS) planned on the 2030 Agenda, OCUD-CRUE Observatory launched a competition for the higher education institutions to collect publications on Goal 12, which proclaims that sustainable consumption and production modalities are guaranteed.

Nineteen articles were submitted to the competition, announced last May. Eight of them were selected because of “their singularity, integration within the university policies and their orientation towards the new Agenda for Development”, points out OCUD-CRUE.

With the title ‘Imagen corporativa, educación en valores y comercio justo: La Tenda de la Universitat de València’, University of Valencia General Foundation submitted, through the Cooperation Area and UV’s Tenda itself, an article which starts from the first initiatives taken by the academic institution to spread responsible consumption via fair trade products within the university community until joining the programme Fairtrade Universities.

The need to embrace values such as responsible consumption which, later, will put across a corporate image that the academic institute applies through La Tenda, facilitated the initiation of actions, such as campaigns affecting all kinds of products commercialised by La Tenda de la Universitat (textile, stationery or design for example), as well as food products made accesible in the fair trade points and cafeterias installed on the three campuses and that are found on UV’s Fair Trade Map.

The article can be found here.

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