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Role of the University in Sustaining the Relevance of Knowledge amid the Future Shock

Inequality gap expressed as lack of access to basic rights, like health, education, water, energy, food, and decent work is a major challenge at institutional and individual level worldwide. Global health crisis initiated by the COVID-19 opened an additional feature of this inequality gap, caused by the lack of technology support for education not only in developing countries, but as well as in the most advanced countries. Using United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as the only available consensus for partnerships in closing the inequality gap as a starting point, the aim of this paper is to contribute to the recent discussion on the role of the University in this process. Three research questions are identified: how does the university cope with the future shock; what is the role of the university in closing the poverty gap; and how does the university collaborate in Triple / Quadruple / Quintuple Helix with other actors. Implemented desk research of the recent academic and non-academic discussion on the capabilities and capacities of the university to make changes using ‘creative destruction’ principle, to build and disseminate relevant knowledge and to collaborate with different actors in the society provided a needed platform which was used to position Croatian universities against such questions.