This book examines how higher education institutions can advance circularity, resilience, and sustainability through competencies, teaching innovation, and campus transformation. Bringing together international perspectives, it highlights how universities can integrate sustainability into curricula, governance, infrastructure, research, and community engagement, positioning themselves as active agents of institutional and societal change.

By moving beyond narrow environmental approaches, the volume presents sustainability as a holistic and transformative framework for higher education. It offers scholars, educators, and practitioners practical and conceptual insights into how universities can become more adaptive, inclusive, and future-ready in response to contemporary global challenges.

Dr. Carmen Díaz-López is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Málaga, Spain. Her work focuses on climate adaptation in the built environment, sustainable construction, passive retrofit strategies, and competence-based sustainability education, with particular interest in campus-scale transformation and indicator-based approaches.

Dr. Carmen M. Muñoz-González is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Málaga, Spain. Her academic work addresses environmental conditioning and energy in architecture, sustainable design strategies, and teaching innovation, with a focus on integrating sustainability into architectural education and design assessment.

Dr. Rubén Mora-Esteban is a researcher and lecturer at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. His work explores socio-ecological urbanism, urban governance, active ageing, and resilience-oriented planning, combining participatory methods and spatial tools to address contemporary urban sustainability challenges.

Dr. Konstantin Verichev is a researcher and lecturer at Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile. His research focuses on sustainable construction, building energy performance, indoor environmental quality, and climate-resilient infrastructure, with particular emphasis on life-cycle assessment, hygrothermal behaviour, and energy efficiency.

Dr. Francisco Conejo-Arrabal is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Málaga, Spain, in the area of Urbanism and Spatial Planning. His work addresses touristification, gentrification, participatory methodologies, and social innovation, with a focus on resilient and inclusive neighbourhoods.