Social responsibility of universities in Poland as implementation of the idea of the economic theory of sustainable development

Abstract

This article attempts to analyze the social responsibility of selected higher education institutions in Poland. The authors concluded that university social responsibility, in particular due to the convergence of assumptions, constitutes a practical dimension for implementing the principles of sustainability theory. The main objective of the article was to answer the following research questions: did Polish universities adopt the concept of social responsibility, in what areas and by what methods and tools it is implemented. The above questions were subordinated to the content of the article. In connection with the aim of the article, the initial part of the discussion was based on an in-depth analysis of the literature of the subject and in the second part, there were used the methods of examining the documents and analyzing the content of websites of selected universities in Poland.