The Sustainable Development Goals: Activities, goals and challenges for UNESCO Chairs

Jordi Morató

[email protected]

Ángel Gallegos

[email protected]

UNESCO Chairs Working Group Meeting

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD REPORT 6

Towards socially responsible HEi, globally and locally engaged

The Sustainable Development Goals:

Activities, goals and challenges

for UNESCO Chairs September 29th, Sant Pau, Barcelona

¿Activities, goals and challenges

for the UNESCO Chairs?

http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals

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UNESCO Chairs

Launched in 1992, the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs

Programme promotes international inter-university

cooperation and networking to enhance institutional

capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative

work.

The Programme supports the establishment of UNESCO

Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in key priority areas related

to UNESCO’s fields of competence – i.e. in education, the

natural and social sciences, culture and communication.

http://en.unesco.org/unitwin-unesco-chairs-programme

Established in 1996

UNESCO Chair on Sustainability (UNESCOSost) – UPC

The main objective of this UNESCO

Chair is to become a critical, reflective,

open and interdisciplinary space, to

help technology refocus on sustainable

development, to reduce imbalances and

to strengthen diversity.

Objectives

• To promote an integrated system of research,

training, information and documentation activities

focused on the interactions between the

economic, socio-political, technologic and

ecologic spheres.

• To develop, within the network of universities, an

innovative plan having for objective to prepare the

students for the careers and ways of life of the

21st century.

Objectives

• Act as a platform to promote the dialogue

between government, local authorities, companies,

unions, scientific communities, NGOs, etc., and

therefore contribute to policy formulation.

• Adopt a holistic approach to global change that

rests on a multidisciplinary basis and understands

the integration of scientific facts and knowledge

with humanistic principles and objectives.

Promotes international

multi-stakeholder

cooperation and

networking to enhance

[their] capacities

through knowledge

sharing and

collaborative work.

Enhance Stakeholders Capacities

Key Concepts

Enhance Stakeholders Capacities

Key Concepts

Enhance Stakeholders Capacities Inclusive and Participatory PM

Càtedres UNESCO Catalanes – UNESCOCat

Links: Xarxa Global universitaria per a la Innovació - http://www.guni-rmies.net Xarxa Civil UNESCO a Catalunya - http://xarxacivilunesco.blogspot.com.es

Web Page: http://www.catedresunesco.cat

UNESCOCat – Thematic Areas

HUMAN

DEVELOPMENT

SCIENCE

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TECHNOLOGY

EDUCATION

AND

CULTURE

UNESCOCat – International Activities

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UNESCOCat – International Activities

America Estats Units

Canadà

Mèxic

Cuba

Hondures

El Salvador

Colòmbia

Perú

Bolívia

Argentina

Brasil

Uruguai

Veneçuela

Panamà

Guatemala

Africa Tunísia

Senegal

Moçambic

Tchad

Burkina Fasso

Nigèria

Etiòpia

Marroc

Egipte

Europa Ginebra -UN França Portugal Itàlia Espanya Sèrbia Rússia Gran Bretanya Alemanya Polònia Malta

Bèlgica Geòrgia Grècia Xipre Romania Turquia Eslovènia Irlanda

asia and Pacífic

Xina Corea Bangladesh Palestina Síria Líban Kazakhstan Tadjikistan Uzbekistan Nova Caledònia

UPC

Mexico

Colombia

Brasil

Argentina

Perú

Networking

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® Jorge Melguizo Posada. 1983

Landfill in operation

Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), Medellín - Col

2004 ® Alcaldía de Medellín. 2004

• 2.224 families = 10.000 hab.

• 1.500.000 Tons garbage

• 7,6 Ha - 42,5 m max height

2004

Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), Medellín - Col

Heavy metals Lead: 403-489 ppm Pb

Chrome: 166-241 ppm Cr

Semana de Moravia Open dialogue for technicians and population

Participatory &

Inclusive

Inform Consult Involve Concert

Participatory Transformation Process

Socio-environmental Transformation - Community Leaders Formation

Moravia Community Garden Group

Promote local identity and

social cohesion through

participatory activities

for environmental

transformation and

urban recovery of

degraded dump area.

Buffer-strips

Link the inhabitants to

the transformation

process through

leisure activities

around gardening.



Community Empowerment – Labour Market Acces

2004

Socio-environmental transformation and recovery of urban degraded areas

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Moravia

Multilevel Research Work

Launched in November 2014. RESURBE program aims to realize research, capacity building and urban development projects worldwide; as well as to support informed policy making, on urban resilience and climate change adaptation/mitigation.

RESURBE program operates through an interdisciplinary and international platform, facilitating knowledge co-creation and exchange, through best practices, between local and regional governments, universities and research centres, international organizations and other stakeholders from private and public sectors.

RESURBE adopts a participatory community development approach, by favouring systemic socio-eco-innovation to reduce the vulnerability of local communities and to improve human wellbeing.

RES

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE

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Currently: 40 partner organizations 175 participants

By end 2015: 60 partner organizations 200 participants


Cities and local communities have a central role in climate change adaptation & mitigation, and risk reduction. Cities and local communities are increasingly and exponentially facing the effects of climate change, requiring immediate planning and action. Cities and local communities are already developing climate change integrated solutions and projects (risk, adaptation, mitigation).

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Co-creation of a common knowledge base; Systematic collection of best practices and case studies worldwide

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KEY MESSAGE

Involve local communities from a holistic vision for the definition of public

policies that respect the historic decisions and thus promote the articulation of

initiatives and the implementation of projects to socio-environmental change.

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Resilient Cities:

Re-thinking Urban Transformation

Book series by Springer

Nicola Tollin, Jordi Morato, Ernesto Gonzales

Series editors

7 edited books to be published by 2016-2017


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RESURBE III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

URBAN RESILIENCE

16-20 February 2016

UNAM

Ciudad de México


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Challenges for the UNESCO Chairs Programme

[To promote] international [multi-stakeholder]

cooperation and networking to enhance [their]

capacities through knowledge sharing and

collaborative work. [To support] the establishment of

UNESCO Chairs Networks in key

priority areas related to Sustainable

Development Goals

Towards socially responsible

HEi, globally and locally

engaged

" The complexity of what we are

now facing in a rapidly climate

changing world, suggest that no

one individual, group or

organization has all the

necessary skills or competences

either to comprehensively

understand the challenges

involved or to design appropriate

solutions."

John Colvin 'Learning to Live with Climate Change' (2009)

Open University, UK

3 of 10 –Terrassa Minyons (Human Towers) 22 nov. 1998 - Terrassa - Barcelona

Jordi Morató

[email protected]

Ángel Gallegos

[email protected]

UNESCO Chairs Working Group Meeting

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD REPORT 6

Towards socially responsible HEi, globally and locally engaged

The Sustainable Development Goals:

Activities, goals and challenges

for UNESCO Chairs September 29th, Sant Pau, Barcelona

The Sustainable Development Goals: Activities, goals and challenges for UNESCO Chairs

Education

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