SDG 4. Quality education

Ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and preprimary education, and complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education. Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education. Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable. Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development. Substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries. Substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers.

To learn more: The Sustainable Development Goals explained by the UN

Projects of the UB Solidarity Foundation that contribute to this SDG:

PAULA Program

The program contributes greatly to goal 4.7, which seeks to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development.

Master's Degree in Globalization, Development and Cooperation

Training of specialists in the construction of development strategies and cooperation relations. It contributes to goal 4.7, of education for sustainable development.

European Observatory on Memories (EUROM)

EUROM contributes to goal 4.7 by organizing teacher training seminars to address the didactics in the field of genocide and mass violence.

UB Solidary autumn

Set of activities carried out each autumn at the University of Barcelona with the aim of bringing the university community and the general public closer to the situations of exclusion, inequality and injustice occurring throughout the world. In this sense, they contribute to goal 4.7, of education for human rights and world citizenship.

UB Support program for refugees

The program contributes especially to goal 4.3, which seeks to ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

Prometeus Project

The UB participates in the leading group of this initiative, which aims to gradually increase the number of young people from the Raval district (Barcelona) who start and complete university studies. Therefore, it contributes to goal 4.3 (ensure equal access to quality technical, vocational and tertiary education).

Activities that contribute to this SDG:

The University of Barcelona gives a voice to refugees for the right to education - En Català | En Castellano On World Refugee Day, with the hashtag #UBRefugi2024, we share thoughts of students from the Refugee Support Program, of which… …

SMILE presents policy recommendations for a more inclusive higher education - In a round table at the European Parliament, with the participation of the UB Solidarity Foundation, the 10 SMILE principles for more diverse and inclusive… …

SMILE hosts a webinar on online courses to promote inclusion and diversity in higher education - Timed for 15th of September, from 13:15 CET, the webinar is open to university faculty, staff and students to drive positive change in higher education… …