Between 24 and 28 November, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa will host its Sustainability Week, involving all faculties and campuses. As has been customary, CATÓLICA-LISBON will be actively engaged, organising a series of initiatives in our building and on the Lisbon campus. These initiatives will be announced in due course and will aim to raise awareness, create spaces for discussion, and give visibility to the path we have been building.
This year we continued our structured work around sustainability, with a particular focus on measuring our carbon footprint, which guides the transition to neutrality by 2027, and on the creation of the Sustainability Department, responsible for driving this journey internally and strengthening the school’s connection to impactful projects in the country. At the same time, we maintained our involvement in national pacts for water management and mental health in the workplace, consolidating our role in initiatives with collective impact.
It is worth emphasising that sustainability at CATÓLICA-LISBON is also fostered by its centres of excellence, such as the Center for Responsible Business and Leadership, the Yunus Social Innovation Center, and the Center for Sustainable Finance. Throughout 2025, these centres developed applied research, educational programmes, outreach activities, and strategic partnerships with companies and public institutions.
All of this is part of a consistent journey, always aligned with the university’s global commitments, particularly the Sustainable Development Goals, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), and the UN Global Compact, whose renewal and deepening strengthen our identity as a school that “walks the talk.”
Sustainability Week will thus be more than a calendar of activities: it will be a moment of collective mobilisation that demonstrates how CATÓLICA-LISBON embraces sustainability as a daily practice, in education, in research, and in its contribution to society.
We invite the entire community to reserve this week and follow the details in the text of the Pro-Rector for Sustainability here.