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How to act?
Get inspired and check out some of our workshop materials on certain SDGs here!
Especially for businesses, banks or educational institutions, establishing an "SDG campus" has turned out to be a helpful approach to get active and incorporate sustainability practices.
What is
an SDG Campus?
Gender Equality, Education and Health
A football club in Pakistan offers numerous development initiatives to support the SDGs. Their programmes for females focus on mental health, extra learning enhancement classes and workshops on women's issues to empower girls. Through additional football sessions in community centers, the project aims at empowering young girls to think beyond typical gender roles in their cultural context. It equips them with valuable knowledge, mental and physical strength as well as mindset to actually chase bigger opportunities: To study
or to work, for instance.
Alleviating Poverty and Reducing Inequality
A bank in the United States implements two days a month where all employees are taught on a particular aspect of SDG 1 and then supposed to volunteer for a social initiative which tackles poverty. They cooperate with various local as well as international actors in order to facilitate that. Concrete actions can involve serving food at a local food bank, providing financial assistance and advice for international NGOs or maintaining one of the free rental spaces in one of the residential buildings which the bank has opened up for refugees.
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An SDG Campus is a place or a platform of an institution which has decided to include direct SDG action into their curriculum, operations as well as working culture to realize the sustainability vision.
Sustainable Energy Solutions
Focusing on SDG 7, Affordable Clean Energy, a university in Germany chooses to equip their engineering students with the respective knowledge on both the technical aspects of renewable energy solutions as well as applying them in order to contribute to the SDGs. In separate workshops, they are then prepared for an SDG project to render exactly this. The university in cooperation with a German company and an NGO such as Engineers without Borders facilitates the students to rethink sustainable energy solutions in a given context such as Ghana and implement a project at the end of the course. This can be building solar panels in a small town, for instance. Overall, this initiative brings together the funding, the knowledge and the context to pursue direct action related to SDG 7.
Facilitating Cultural Reflection
A school in Canada teaches on different cultures and invites schools in Pakistan, Spain and South Africa for a virtual exchange seminar. The students are encouraged to reflect on their positionality before the exchange: their culture and their educational background, for instance. They are then discussing global issues with their peers from all over the world and analyze different aspects of the exchange later. Reflecting questions can be but are not limited to:
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What have I learnt about the other culture or myself?
What stereotypes or ideas did I have about the other culture/person?
Which ways of thinking about others or "culture" am I not aware of?
How can I work to limit that conscious and unconscious bias?
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The schools do not intend to just bring peers from different cultural backgrounds together. They aim at challenging perspectives on other cultures and oneself in an interconnected world.
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... because sustainability matters.
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