As a part of education for sustainable development, primary teachers and subject teachers play an important role as implementers of ideas for sustainable development in educating children and youth. Therefore, future teachers also play an important role in promoting sustainable development in their future educational work. In accordance with that, the general aim of the research was to examine attitudes of students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka, regarding the promotion of sustainable development in future work. I. e., the specific aim was to investigate whether there is a correlation between views of respondents on sustainable development, education for sustainable development and independent variables, and the link between the assessment of the contribution of faculty education in development, and the assessment of the need for greater development of competences for the promotion of sustainable development. In addition to this, the specific aim was also to establish the familiarity of respondents with certain concepts related to ecology. As regards the structure, this paper is consisted of the section in which is theoretical interpretation of Sustainable development and Education for sustainable development, and then is presented the research part. At the beginning of the paper, there are presented various interpretations and definitions of scientists who have dealt with this topic, and there are shown basic documents which are the cornerstone for the promotion of Sustainable development. Then the concept of education for sustainable development was explained and its founding at the international and domestic level was presented. Furthermore, in the area of education for sustainable development, emphasis was placed on the pre-service education of future teachers and the acquisition of competences for the promotion of education for sustainable development. In the second part of the paper, a quantitative research has been carried out. The research instrument is a survey questionnaire based on previous research and theoretical background. The survey included 87 students of the teaching module at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka.