Inclusion and Social Justice: The Young University Students' Point of View
Inclusion and Social Justice: The Young University Students' Point of View
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00
Location: FSE001 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
The theme of inclusion and social justice is, by definition, at the heart of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In the document, it is possible to note how, although the principles of social justice and inclusion can be taken as transversal to all the aforementioned Goals, they are much more marked with reference to SDG 3 which aims to allow all human beings to achieve health and well-being, to SDG 4 which aims to build quality education, to SDG 5 which promotes gender equality, to SDG 8 which promotes decent work; to SDG 10 which aims to reduce inequalities between countries and within them; finally, to SDG 16 which is aimed at creating peaceful and inclusive social models.
In this context, starting from 2015 and promoted by the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI), the RUS - Network of Universities for Sustainable Development has worked to promote shared policies and sustainable social contexts, to increase a critical awareness of inequalities, discrimination, forms of inequity, and ways of overcoming themselves and to promote services focused on the right to education.
Starting from this, the research conducted in 2021 aimed to investigate the practices of inclusion and social justice among Sapienza students who, during the last three academic years, have carried out a period of mobility abroad through one of the programs of mobility offered by Sapienza (Erasmus EU, Erasmus ICM, Bilateral Agreements, Double Degree). Furthermore, the focus on outgoing students has thus made it possible to highlight the practices that the students, once returned from abroad, highlight as necessary for the University they belong to with the aim to implement inclusive policies aimed at removing any form of barrier, academic or otherwise.
In this context, starting from 2015 and promoted by the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI), the RUS - Network of Universities for Sustainable Development has worked to promote shared policies and sustainable social contexts, to increase a critical awareness of inequalities, discrimination, forms of inequity, and ways of overcoming themselves and to promote services focused on the right to education.
Starting from this, the research conducted in 2021 aimed to investigate the practices of inclusion and social justice among Sapienza students who, during the last three academic years, have carried out a period of mobility abroad through one of the programs of mobility offered by Sapienza (Erasmus EU, Erasmus ICM, Bilateral Agreements, Double Degree). Furthermore, the focus on outgoing students has thus made it possible to highlight the practices that the students, once returned from abroad, highlight as necessary for the University they belong to with the aim to implement inclusive policies aimed at removing any form of barrier, academic or otherwise.