Mapping the requirements of the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance (1993) and Key Sustainability Competencies (Redman & Wiek, 2021)
This is just a quick and dirty mapping, but even though details can certainly be discussed, I think that there is nevertheless a striking overlap between what the Swedish law from 1993 says a student shall demonstrate for a Degree of Master of Science in Engineering, and what Redman & Wiek (2021) suggest as key competencies in sustainability.
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Attempting to Assess Key Competencies in Sustainability - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] With that out of the way, the framework in a nutshell: Students always learn a lot of disciplinary competencies that range from fairly generic to highly specialised. But they also need content-independent general and professional competencies, like for example critical thinking (an all-time favourite!) or good communication skills. They also need to develop and practice inter-personal and intra-personal competencies, and that is where we come into the realm of key competencies for sustainability: Together with planning competencies and implementation competencies, they can become integrated competencies. The key here is that while competencies can be practised each on their own to some extent, they need to also be practised together. Btw, note how all these competencies seem to make a lot of sense to master to be prepared for what the future might bring, regardless of whether we want to tackle sustainability challenges. (There is an almost complete overlap with the requirements of the 1993 law that sets the requirements…) […]