ENQA webinar: Quality Assurance and Learning for Sustainability

This webinar will present the findings of a recent survey to QA agencies on the role of QA in supporting learning for sustainability in higher education.

Higher education has long been recognised as a vital driver of sustainable development, with many universities now placing sustainability at the heart of their institutional strategies. Yet there is growing concern that sustainability is too often incorporated superficially within universities as a label or add-on rather than as a driver of meaningful transformation in teaching, research, and institutional practice. Quality assurance (QA) agencies have a potentially critical role to play in strengthening the credibility and depth of sustainability within higher education. However, the question of how QA agencies can effectively support this agenda remains underexplored.

To address this gap, ENQA and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Steering Committee on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) have begun a collaboration to examine how sustainability and Learning for Sustainability are currently understood and addressed within QA systems. Their first joint activity was a survey of ENQA members and affiliates undertaken in late 2025, designed to map current approaches, identify barriers, and explore the roles agencies consider they can play in advancing sustainability within higher education.

The webinar present and discuss the study’s findings and explore practical pathways for the sector. The webinar will feature input from Professor Daniella Tilbury, UNECE Steering Committee on ESD, who led the study. The full programme will be announced soon. Quality assurance professionals, QA agencies’ staff, and higher education stakeholders are warmly invited to participate and contribute to shaping the next phase of this important agenda. The webinar will be recorded and the recording published on ENQA’s YouTube channel.

Please register for the webinar using this link.