Sustainability and curriculum: Problems and possible solutions in the Spanish university context

This study aims to contribute to clarify the situation in the process of sustainability curriculum in the Spanish universities and to guide further work on prioritization of strategies to move on this direction. An descriptive research that defines the problems related to the process of sustainability curriculum in Spanish universities is presented. Through two queries addressed to the intercollegiate group of experts "Sustainability and Curriculum", belonging to the Sectoral Commission on Environmental Quality, Sustainable Development and Risk Prevention Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, and through a qualitative analysis of the responses five main problems were detected, which have been ordered by their influence on the current status of the situation and possible solutions have been provided to each of them. It is noteworthy that the situation of sustainability curriculum in Spain responds to multiple factors, among which experts stress the role of teachers and their lack of training on sustainability and sustainability curriculum.