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Matevลพ Obrecht – University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics, Mariborska cesta 7, 3000 Celje, Slovenia

Lazar Paviฤ‡ – University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics, Mariborska cesta 7, 3000 Celje, Slovenia

Keywords:
Sustainable development;
Sustainable knowledge;
Higher education;
Sustainable competences;
Higher education study
programs

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/LIMEN.2022.257

Abstract

Environmental topics are gaining more and more important both in the European Union and in Slovenia in the last decade. Climate changยญes (floods, droughts, and heat waves), pollution (soil, water, and air), manยญagement of invasive species, noise pollution, food self-sufficiency, sustainยญable development in the field of tourism, etc. are particularly present both in Slovenian Eastern and Western cohesion region. However, the level of knowlยญedge about environmental challenges and competences of current experts and leaders to effectively manage and deal with them is perceived to be too low. The paper examines the inclusion of sustainable competences, knowlยญedge, and skills in higher education programs in Slovenia to predict the levยญel of sustainable knowledge. Slovenian soon-to-be professionals will be emยญpowered by the Slovenian higher education system (Daneshjoo et al., 2020). Analysis included the content of 956 higher education study programs on the individual course level. In the next phase, a comprehensive comparative analysis of the situation in the areas of higher education and environmenยญtal education was performed. The factors based on which comparison was made are field of study, type of institution, level of study and number of subยญjects in the program that include some sustainable content. Non-parametยญric tests were used to determine statistically significant differences are the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis H test.

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8th International Scientific-Business Conference – LIMEN 2022 – Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics: Integrated Politics of Research – CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, Hybrid (EXE Budapest Center, Budapest, Hungary), December 1, 2022,

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Obrecht, M., & Paviฤ‡, L. (2022). How Much Sustainable Knowledge Will Soon-to-Be Experts in Slovenia Have? Findings of Higher Education Study Programsโ€™ Analysis. In V. Bevanda (Ed.), International Scientific-Business Conference โ€“ LIMEN 2022: Vol 8. Conference proceedingsย (pp. 257-263). Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans.ย  https://doi.org/10.31410/LIMEN.2022.257

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