Olaya Álvarez García PhD in Environmental Education is Tenure-track contract Lecturer at the Applied Pedagogy and Educational Psychology Department in the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) Current Themes of Research Her areas of lecturing and research expertise are related to environmental education. She has published in International journales and she has participated in diverse European and national projects on teacher training and sustainability, among others. Among her professional experience it is higlighted her work as environmental techinican at the university sustainability office. She works in research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation-Government of Spain: "Success and dropout pathways in vocational education and training level I and II” (Ref. EDU2013-42854-R) and “Teaching practice and the prevention of early drop-out from vocational education and training: an empirical approach and a proposal for intervention” research project (Ref. PID2019-108342RB-I00).