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How to Address Social Sustainability Challenges
9 May, 2023 @ 6:15 pm - 8:15 pm
Event description
Are you a student and interested in the topic of social sustainability? In this workshop you get further knowledge on the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including a critical reflection. You will also get to know current ideas and (development) projects within the social dimension of sustainability. As a concrete tool, you learn to use a project canvas which will help you in planning or further developing your own sustainability project (idea). Last but not least, you get the chance to exchange with other students and representatives from Helvetas, the Sustainability Week Switzerland and Focus Sustainability.
Programme
In this two hour online workshop, you will briefly be introduced to the Agenda 2030 and deepen your knowledge about and critically reflect on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You learn how Helvetas applies the SDGs to their development cooperation projects and what problems they face. In the second interactive part, you will work in breakout groups and learn how to use a project canvas framework to develop sustainability projects in a structured way. You can work on your own project (idea) or on a project of other students.
In this workshop you will:
- get further knowledge on the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.
- get to know projects of Helvetas based on the SDGs.
- learn how to use a project canvas for a structured approach to plan sustainability projects.
- work on your own project (idea) or get to know student’s sustainability projects
This workshop is also an opportunity to network and exchange with other students and talk to representatives from Helvetas, the Sustainability Week Switzerland and Focus Sustainability.
Preparation
If you already have a social sustainability project or a social sustainability project (idea), please bring it with you.
Please familiarise yourself with the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You might find these resources useful:
- Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (United Nations) — General overview
- Bringing Data to Life — SDG human impact stories from across the globe (United Nations) — This flip book showcases faces and stories behind the SDG numbers around the globe.
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Swiss Confederation) — General overview
- Platform Agenda 2030 — The Swiss “Platform Agenda 2030” is a coalition of around 50 Swiss civil society organisations from the fields of development cooperation, environmental protection, gender, peace, sustainable business and trade unions. They are working towards implementing the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development within Switzerland as well as elsewhere.
- SDG Online Quiz (GERMANWATCH) — Discover which kind of action-taker you are! This quiz helps you to get to know the SDGs and provides you with interesting ideas and new approaches to use the SDGs for your civic engagement. The quiz takes about 15 minutes to complete. You will receive the correct answers at the end of the quiz.
- Example Project Canva
Facilitators
Anna van der Ploeg graduated from the University of Zurich with a Master’s degree in English and German Studies. As a former secondary school teacher for English, she is responsible for educational work in Switzerland at the Development Organisation Helvetas. Anna is passionate about and leads projects in cooperation with higher education institutions and students in the field of sustainability.
Gina Egg holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public- and Nonprofit Management and a Master’s degree in Creative Industries. She joined Helvetas as a trainee to seek more experience in the sensitisation work of a development organisation.
Ina Schelling studied Media and Communication Science at the University of Zurich. After her Master’s degree, during which she engaged in a lot of sustainability projects, she joined the Sustainability Week Switzerland as a project coordinator to help other students organise, inspire and mentor to act for more sustainability at the higher education institutions.
Mégane Schafhirt holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Hospitality Management and a Master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She joined Focus Sustainability as project co-manager to support students from all over Switzerland to get meaningfully engaged with sustainability.
Co-organiser
Helvetas is committed to a just world in which all people determine the course of their lives in dignity and security, using environmental resources in a sustainable manner. Helvetas is an independent organisation for development based in Switzerland with affiliated organisations in Germany and the United States. Helvetas supports poor and disadvantaged people and communities in about thirty developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
The Sustainability Week Switzerland (SWS) empowers students to bring sustainability into all aspects of higher education institutions. The aspiration is that students turn their institutions into sustainability role models for the whole of society. The SWS is a growing network for student-led Sustainability Weeks at higher education institutions. The organisation helps students to get started with their own Sustainability Week and can connect them with people all over the world.
Admission
This workshop is open to all students at Swiss higher education institutions and is free of charge.
Registration deadline: By Tue, 2nd May
Language
English
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