Today, humanity is more and more concerned with maintaining an ecological balance by avoiding the depletion of natural resources as well as providing the basic necessities necessary to support or preserve life, means of existence or existence itself. These phenomena present themselves as a support or sustainability that can be ensured at a certain level of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability has four distinct areas or otherwise called the basic pillars of sustainability: human, social, economic and environmental. The role of universities in the sustainable development of a country can be presented as a basic resource in the development of human resources and research institutions. People in universities are capable of producing knowledge, creativity and innovation. Universities are seen as a resource of economic development and the key actions needed to be taken to create a sustainable future. For this reason universities have a huge responsibility in raising the awareness, knowledge, technology and development tools needed to create an ecologically sustainable future as well as in shaping sustainable consumption behaviour. Higher education has always been responsive to social needs, and the university has become sustainable by focusing efforts on sustainable consumption through integrative co-creative processes involving relevant stakeholders that encompass the complex interdependence of individual, social, cultural, economic, political and biosphere. This study is carried out within the Project "Consolidation of sustainable public procurement in the Republic of Moldova" 20.80009.7007.15, financed from the State Budget within the State Program (2020-2023).