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Member universities of the UN PRME initiative are obliged to evaluate the results of their activities aimed at implementing the idea of sustainable development, but to a lesser extent they focus on identifying cause and effect relationships in achieved results. Such relationships can be explained by analysis consistent with the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) model.
Therefore, the aim of the article is to identify the effects of implementing sustainable development in universities in terms of contexts and mechanisms. The research question concerned determining the connections between the identified outcomes and the conditions and actions taken.
In the research procedure, one of the seventeen reports of Polish universities, prepared as part of the PRME initiative, was selected and subjected to thematic analysis.
The results show that universities achieve results mainly related to education, involvement of the academic community and the development of competences related to sustainable development. The article proposes a new perspective on the sustainable development of universities using the CMO model.
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