Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(7), P. 3071 - 3071

Published: March 31, 2025

This study explores how university students’ engagement in sustainability-themed extracurricular activities influences their awareness of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given critical role higher education advancing sustainability, this research assesses initiatives such as environmental action clubs, sustainability research, eco-innovations, green campuses, and training workshops for fostering awareness, engagement, leadership. A cross-sectional quantitative design targeted 400 students Greece involved sustainability-related activities. Structured online questionnaires were used, multiple regression analysis examined relationship between SDG engagement. The findings highlighted that all five activity types significantly enhance awareness. Environmental clubs improve knowledge climate change waste reduction, while projects strengthen with renewable energy resilience. Eco-innovation challenges foster problem solving interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly urban industrial sustainability. Green campus promote practical sustainable strategies, capacity-building programs develop leadership teamwork skills. Extracurricular serve transformative tools bridge theoretical real-world applications, equipping mindset skills to address global challenges. Universities policymakers should funding, digital integration, collaborations expand reach these programs. Future assess long-term impact student participation on behavior broader societal well-being.

Language: Английский