The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2016 as a framework to promote sustainability at all levels and to satisfy the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite dedicated national efforts and international cooperation, Sustainable Development National Reports often highlight limited progress, stagnation, or even setbacks in specific Goals or Targets.

Understanding the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary nature of the SDGs—and gaining insights into optimizing their implementation to maximize benefits for the environment, society, and economies—cannot be achieved without the active engagement and initiatives of youth. However, teaching the SDGs is not yet fully integrated into university curricula, despite its potential to enhance adoption and drive innovation.

This paper presents an educational approach designed to deepen understanding of sustainability challenges and the unique nature of the SDGs through experiential learning, collaborative work, scientific inquiry, and artistic expression. Specifically, this SDG-focused module incorporates on-campus field studies addressing environmental and social issues, science experiments emphasizing environmental SDGs, and humanities and philosophy analyses of relevant concepts, all fostering critical thinking, innovation, and creativity.

Students are encouraged to work together, think outside of the box by transforming the university campus into a living laboratory, engage the broader university community in real-life projects, use global good practices and paradigms, and ultimately create their own artistic, intellectual, and technological works that demonstrate the interdisciplinary essence of one or more SDGs. The outcomes of this module go beyond knowledge acquisition; it often becomes an invaluable—and sometimes life-changing—experience that shapes students’ attitudes toward life, nature, environmental stewardship, social cohesion, peacemaking, sustainable development, and collaboration for a sustainable future for all.

Keywords: Sustainability education, Science, Creativity, Art, Sustainable Development Goals, Environment, Society, Economic viability.