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Sustainable Development Goals
As per the SDG website, the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 provides a global overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the global and regional progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.
According to the Report, cascading and interlinked crises are putting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in grave danger, along with humanity’s very own survival. The Report highlights the severity and magnitude of the challenges before us. The confluence of crises, dominated by COVID-19, climate change, and conflicts, are creating spin-off impacts on food and nutrition, health, education, the environment, and peace and security, and affecting all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Report details the reversal of years of progress in eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and education, providing basic services, and much more. It also points out areas that need urgent action in order to rescue the SDGs and deliver meaningful progress for people and the planet by 2030.
In my opinion i wanted to create a simple digital teaching that would help everyone as a whole including local scale conversations about the Sustainable Development Goals towards education and how to implement them in the best possible way. It would invite Speakers about how the UN’s “Global Goals” could be brought home to individual, schools, communities and organizations in meaningful ways that respected local culture and the uniqueness of local ecosystems. Only if we can stimulate these kind of conversations across and within sectors will we inspire widespread participation in projects aimed at promoting the implementation of the SDGs.
The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) hosted the first of a series of three webinars organized in the lead-up to the HESI+10 Global Forum which will highlight the role of higher education in building back better from COVID-19 and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The HESI+10 Global Forum, will take place on 6 July 2022 as a special event to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and will spotlight HESI’s 10th Anniversary since its launch at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (or Rio+20 Conference).
In an insightful webinar entitled “Transformation of higher education post COVID-19”, HESI brought together a group of higher education experts to explore how the pandemic has transformed higher education’s approaches to teaching and learning. The event brought featured 60 participants, and was opened by Lotta Tähtinen, Chief of the Outreach and Partnerships Branch, Division for Sustainable Development Goals of UN DESA. Ms. Tähtinen acknowledged that “the disruptions that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to societies, including in the education sector, are unprecedented” and thanked partners and faculty for “driving current and future generations… to advance sustainable development and the SDGs”.
Ms. Florencia Librizzi, Senior Advisor, Sulitest and Co-Chair of HESI, then led a feedback exercise with the audience that captured some of the key challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, such as the difficulty to nurture a sense of community and belonging, and the benefits of work-life balance resulting of remote practices.
According to the Report, cascading and interlinked crises are putting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in grave danger, along with humanity’s very own survival. The Report highlights the severity and magnitude of the challenges before us. The confluence of crises, dominated by COVID-19, climate change, and conflicts, are creating spin-off impacts on food and nutrition, health, education, the environment, and peace and security, and affecting all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Report details the reversal of years of progress in eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and education, providing basic services, and much more. It also points out areas that need urgent action in order to rescue the SDGs and deliver meaningful progress for people and the planet by 2030.
In my opinion i wanted to create a simple digital teaching that would help everyone as a whole including local scale conversations about the Sustainable Development Goals towards education and how to implement them in the best possible way. It would invite Speakers about how the UN’s “Global Goals” could be brought home to individual, schools, communities and organizations in meaningful ways that respected local culture and the uniqueness of local ecosystems. Only if we can stimulate these kind of conversations across and within sectors will we inspire widespread participation in projects aimed at promoting the implementation of the SDGs.
The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) hosted the first of a series of three webinars organized in the lead-up to the HESI+10 Global Forum which will highlight the role of higher education in building back better from COVID-19 and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The HESI+10 Global Forum, will take place on 6 July 2022 as a special event to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and will spotlight HESI’s 10th Anniversary since its launch at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (or Rio+20 Conference).
In an insightful webinar entitled “Transformation of higher education post COVID-19”, HESI brought together a group of higher education experts to explore how the pandemic has transformed higher education’s approaches to teaching and learning. The event brought featured 60 participants, and was opened by Lotta Tähtinen, Chief of the Outreach and Partnerships Branch, Division for Sustainable Development Goals of UN DESA. Ms. Tähtinen acknowledged that “the disruptions that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to societies, including in the education sector, are unprecedented” and thanked partners and faculty for “driving current and future generations… to advance sustainable development and the SDGs”.
Ms. Florencia Librizzi, Senior Advisor, Sulitest and Co-Chair of HESI, then led a feedback exercise with the audience that captured some of the key challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, such as the difficulty to nurture a sense of community and belonging, and the benefits of work-life balance resulting of remote practices.
