UPO promotes the culture of sustainability and adopts an integrated approach with tangible measures to tackle an important change of model from within: education, research, third mission; to respond to the numerous and complex environmental and institutional challenges, while contributing to a global socio-economic change of direction.

Adherence to sustainable social, economic and environmental policies is an extraordinary opportunity for innovation, safeguarding and promotion of territorial resources and this is why UPO is today the instigator of action at various levels that affect all its members – teachers, researchers, technical-administrative staff - and, in particular, involve and educate its students.

Dr. Carmen Aina is the Rector’s proxy for the University Network for Sustainable Development.