Additionally, it will create a training programme on environmental issues for its 6,000 academic staff members.
Federico Demaria, an economics professor at the institution and one of 200 people who supported the students’ requests, said, “To recognise that we all have to study this marks a change in the paradigm of university education.”
The course will not be ‘just another sustainable development course’.
It will combine the social, ecological and economic aspects which are all interrelated.
To discuss the course’s content, a committee of specialists and academics, many of whom were proposed by the activists, will meet.
Jofre Carnicer, a member of the International Panel on Climate Change, is among them.