ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE FINANCE - TRANSITION TOWARDS BETTER STUDY PROGRAMME OF THE ECONOMIC FACULTIES IN CROATIA

The study investigated the extent to which sustainable development and finance are embedded in teaching and research activities and examined the attitudes of finance teachers and the perceived institutional support for improving sustainability education in economics faculties and departments of universities in Croatia. The results of the survey were analyzed using descriptive statistics, categorical frequency analyses, Mann-Whitney test, t-test and correlations: Non-parametric Spearman correlation and parametric Pearson product moment correlation. The research findings confirm the importance of human capital - the role of teachers in implementing and enforcing the concept of sustainable finance/development. The effective implementation of the concept of sustainable finance in the teaching process is linked to an institutionally clear concept of sustainable development, scientific work and study abroad. The introduction of sustainable finance courses is more present at the graduate level than at the undergraduate level, where sustainable finance topics are gradually introduced into existing courses.