Malheiro, BeneditaGuedes, PedroDuarte, Abel J.Silva, Manuel F.Ferreira, Paulo2022-05-302022-05-302022-04978-989-53496-4-7http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/20566Motivation is the key to academic success. In the case of engineering, autonomous project teamwork guided by ethics and sustainability concerns acts as a major student motivator. Moreover, it empowers students to become lifelong learners and agents of sustainable development. Engineering schools can thus address simultaneously these two essential education goals – learning and academic success – by challenging students to find innovative, sustainable solutions in a learner-centred set-up.This paper describes how the European Project Semester (EPS), a capstone engineering programme offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), combines challenge-based learning, ethics and sustainability-driven problem-solving, and international multidisciplinary teamwork to achieve both goals.engAcademic SuccessChallenge-Based LearningEngineering Education for Sustainable DevelopmentEuropean Project SemesterMulticultural and Multidisciplinary TeamworkProject-based LearningProblem Solvingconference object