In this track we would like to promote the discussion about how can we help students to develop an adequate sustainable vision of the world in which they are to live, since they will play themselves a vital role in the evoluton of that world. We thought about some topics, such as Pedagogical Innovatons involving Sustainability, Methodologies for Learning and Teaching Sustainability, Evaluaton and Assessment of Sustainability Learning, New Learning/Teaching Models involving Sustainability, Sustainability Learning Tools and Curriculum Design. | Journal of Technology and Science Education A FOCUS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT SKILLS Marc Alier Forment1, Nídia Caetano2, Francisco Garcia-Peñalvo3, Beatriz Amante1, Rosario Martnez1 1 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain 2 Polytechnic Insttute of Porto, Portugal Universidad de Salamanca, Spain 3 , nsc@, fgarcia@, , INTRODUCTION Technical development has reached a point of development and adopton by society where the impact of technical developments in the society and the environment has a deep and global impact. With great power comes great responsibility, as Ben Parker said in Spiderman’s comic-books. Today’s engineers need to be aware of the responsibility they bear. This awareness has to be raised during the educaton and training. The adaptaton to the European Higher Educaton Area (EHEA) has brought us the need for the inclusion of professional skills in the curricula of universites. There are many studies on the need to incorporate these skills (Natonal Academy of Engineering, 2004; Cobb, Agogino, Beckman & Speer, 2008). The need for most of these skills was not discussed while others have been introduced without unanimity. On the other hand, teachers feel more comfortable teaching some partcular skills that have been introduced because they have an idea of how to teach and evaluate them. One of the professional skills commonly accepted as essental in the modern world (despite some detractors) is "Sustainability and Social Commitment" (SSC). Nevertheless it raises concerns among teachers due to the lack of formal knowledge about it. Some of the common questons raised when discussing this skill are: What is sustainability? What is its relatonship with my subject? What should my students learn? How should we evaluate the skill acquisiton? (Forment, López, Carracedo, Almiñana, Poch, Velasco et al., 2013). Several studies exist on the
