Categoría: Co-curricular initiatives for university students

  • Embedding SDGs content in existing courses

    Embedding SDGs content in existing courses Description Institution Monash University Malaysia Organizations/areas of the university involved School of Engineering Country Malaysia More information… The Master of Advanced Engineering (MAE) in Energy and Sustainability program is designed to groom our next generation to become a change agent of sustainability so that they can make the ecosystem…

  • The George Mason University Honey Bee Initiative

    The George Mason University Honey Bee Initiative

    The George Mason University Honey Bee Initiative Description Institution George Mason University Organizations/areas of the university involved Led by School of Business and College of Science but in collaboration with the College of Education and Human Development, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Visual and Performing Arts, College of Health and Human Services,…

  • Sustainable Solutions to Los Angeles’ Wicked Problems: Using Human Rights to Implement the SDGs in LA

    The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, in partnership with the LA Mayor’s Office SDG initiative and other academic partners, trained undergraduate and graduate students in applying human rights concepts and methods to operationalizing the SDGs at a local level. Read More

  • ODSesiones

    ODSesiones

    ODSesiones promotes an SDG per month through multiple activities in order to raise consciousness among the University of Murcia members as well the community. Read More

  • Seminar: Sustainability at the university – actions for the 17 SDGs

    Seminar: Sustainability at the university – actions for the 17 SDGs

    Seminar: Sustainability at the university – actions for the 17 SDGs Description Institution Hochschule Düsseldorf/University of Applied Science (HSD) Organizations/areas of the university involved Fachbereich Sozial-und Kulturwissenschaften Country Germany More information… In April 2018, the first seminar dedicated to the SDGs started at the Fachbereich Sozial-und Kulturwissenschaften Faculty at the Hochschule Düsseldorf / University of…

  • SDGs Mobility Program and Global Citizenship Awareness

    SDGs Mobility Program and Global Citizenship Awareness Description Institution UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID Organizations/areas of the university involved Vice-Chancellorship for Institutional Relations, Social Responsibility and Culture; and Office for Solidarity and Cooperation. Country Spain More information… UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID (UAM) has a long and lasting commitment to contribute to international development and sustainable challenges…

  • Transformational learning approach to embedding UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, in business curricula

    Transformational learning approach to embedding UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, in business curricula

    This case study relates to the “Poverty Alleviation and Profitability”, course. It adopts the SDG framework to challenge business students to re-image the role of the for- profit firm Read More

  • Making the makers and innovators for the SDGs

    Making the makers and innovators for the SDGs

    The Geneva Tsinghua Initiative (GTI) is a Sino-Swiss partnership betwwen University of Geneva and Tsinghua University. Through a wide range of innovative education programmes, GTI provides opportunities for students and professionals to solving major societal and environmental challenges based on the SDGs. Read More

  • Newton Smart Campus

    Newton Smart Campus Description Institution Centro Universitário Newton Paiva Organizations/areas of the university involved Research, Extension and Innovation, Engineering and Architecture Country Brazil More information… The intensification of urbanization leads to various aggravating factors in an intensely populous city. Among them, we can mention: difficulties of urban mobility, increase in waste generation, and difficulties of…