<![CDATA[Rapid global changes require educational approaches that connect sustainability awareness with character formation, cultural identity, and responsible global citizenship. This community engagement activity aimed to strengthen educators’ understanding of the interrelationships among environmental literacy, character education, local wisdom, global citizenship, and sustainable futures through educational dissemination and academic capacity building. The activity was conducted within the International Conference at FTIK IAIN Kendari in 2025 using an educational dissemination approach consisting of material preparation and contextualization, structured academic presentation, interactive exchange and reflection, and synthesis of educational implications. Activity documentation and presentation materials were descriptively analyzed to identify the principal educational perspectives communicated during the session. The activity highlighted four interconnected orientations: local wisdom and character education as foundations for sustainable futures; culturally rooted global citizenship characterized by strong character, cultural roots, global understanding, and social responsibility; contextual and integrated learning for connecting educational content with real-life and global challenges; and multi-stakeholder collaboration involving educational institutions, families, communities, technology, and government. These findings indicate that academic capacity-building forums can provide meaningful spaces for integrating sustainability discourse with culturally grounded educational perspectives, although the activity did not measure changes in participants’ competence or classroom practices. The activity therefore contributes a Sustainable Futures-Oriented Educational Capacity-Building Perspective as a conceptual foundation for subsequent collaborative workshops, classroom implementation, and systematic evaluation]]>
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