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In a university environment dominated by a traditional way of understanding knowledge, we argue that it is possible and necessary to foster capabilities among engineering students. Capabilities are understood as reasoned and substantive freedoms to lead the kind of life that people value, within a framework of respect for the core values of human development. In this sense, enhancing capabilities means fostering pro-public-good professionalism. With insight from an interview study conducted at the Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, in Spain, we will argue how formal and informal spaces have the potential to foster capabilities such as participation, commitment, empathy, intercultural respect, critical thinking and self-reflexivity. These kinds of learning could be understood as a mixture of procedural know how and personal know how (Muller, Higher Education 70(3):409–416, 2015); as we will discuss in the last part of this paper, this kind of knowledge is difficult to assimilate within the framework of the terminology of skills and competences. Some recommendations for a capability-oriented curriculum are presented in the final section. ; The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union 7th Framework Programme under Grant Agreement Number 320136. ; Peer reviewed

[EN]: This study situats in the current debates on the adoption of Global Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals and on the question if this can be considered and advancement or not. We focus in the specific case of the Spanish non-governmental development sector, in order to address if the Agenda can solve the problems felt by the stakeholders. From a more normative and positioned perspectives, we ask is the Agenda can contribute to address these problems from a more transformative perspective, that is, contributing to the repoliticization of development and aid. For this aim, we address the reflections and questionings that emerge from civil society in the case of Valencian development aid. These voices offer a challenging and a very interesting perspective from which we can unpack the Agenda and propose ways in which it can be adapted in order to advance towards a more transformative development aid. ; [ES]: El trabajo se sitúa en el actual debate sobre si la adopción de la Agenda Global 2030 y los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible en las políticas y prácticas de cooperación supone un avance o un retroceso. Para ello, nos interrogamos más concretamente sobre si pueden ser positivos o negativos para abordar los problemas concretos percibidos por el sector de la cooperación no gubernamental al desarrollo español. De forma más normativa y posicionada, nos preguntamos si la agenda puede contribuir a abordar estos problemas de una forma más transformadora, esto es, contribuyendo a la repolitización de la cuestión del desarrollo y la cooperación. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en las reflexiones y cuestionamientos que emergen desde la sociedad civil en el caso de la cooperación valenciana. Estas voces nos ofrecen una mirada cuestionadora de mucho interés, a partir de la cual repensamos y proponemos formas en la que la agenda global puede adoptarse, para avanzar hacia una cooperación más transformadora.