We Can Only Do It Together: Addressing Global Sustainability Challenges Through a Collaborative Paradigm

Urgent structural change is required in higher education to allow collaboration both within and across universities so that achieving a rapid sustainability transition can become the overarching main purpose of education, research work society. A review literature reveals fragmentation, caused by traditional hierarchical faculty disciplinary organisation, major obstacle such goals. Additionally, today operate under competitive paradigm prevents transfer application available knowledge, thereby blocking development new knowledge coherent future-oriented approaches. Fragmentation competition prevent from pooling resources, understanding challenges holistically using systemic approaches address them. Political agendas, funding priorities existing mechanisms dissemination evaluation academic activity contribute inertia. Rather than applying fragmented goals rigid silo structures, action for needs be coordinated among actors horizontally diagonally. This requires spaces strategic thinking, concertation, open discussion sharing. The insights achieved strong environments need direct efforts towards transition, priority must given networks already enable concertation collaboration.