University Teaching Experiences With Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Promoting Transversal Competencies in Online Journalism

This article analyses one case of pedagogic innovation in the field of the university teaching of online journalism. The examined initiative has sought to develop Transversal Competencies (TC), useful for emotional, creative training and for creating enterprising future (online) journalists, through multimedia journalistic projects linked to the UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article describes the educational and professional context within which this innovative training experience is set, and presents results obtained from surveys carried out among the participating students, and from classroom observations that show the impact, reach and interest of the described pedagogic initiative. This work also hopes to be of use for future applications of SDGs in other journalism and communication subjects linked to content creation, along with other training areas and work methodologies within the Social Sciences in which an epistemological “affective turn” is being promoted.