Nowadays we are facing a high level of sustainability problems due to the humans’ unsustainable behaviour, therefore a restructuring is expected from the educational system and its complex dynamics to manage the situation, promoting a new awareness-based model towards a sustainable society shaped by, and for, stakeholders involved, ensuring that the different organizations comply with the criteria of sustainability within their substantive functions (teaching, research and extension). It is sought to analyse and discuss the differences and relations between approaches of knowledge co-production in complex project management research. This includes the basic understanding of the perspectives on project management practices by illustrative examples from TrUST project.