Why Join?
- Find new students from across the world. Several reports argue that youth’s perspectives on their future studies focus on SD; as an example, Forbes refers to Generation Z as the “sustainability generation”.
- Build relationships and be involved with the United Nations’ various agencies and officials working on SDGs.
- Enhance your institution’s profile in the international market and university ranking. All leading World University Rankings, such as QS, THE, and others, emphasize the importance of assessing the critical role of universities across the world in implementing SDGs, both on campus and helping their countries as whole to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs.
- Network directly with key universities across the world, and share experience and lessons learned with their research and teaching.
- SDGs’ outstanding contribution certificate that can be displayed in your university.
- Your own dedicated page online, including your full profile, courses, research/publications, top experts, research centres, latest news, website, and all your contact and social media details.
- Business Diagnostic Consultations and workshops by our Expert Advisors to meet your transformation strategy and plan towards achieving SDGs.
- WASD, supported by a prestigious Experts Advisory Board, will undertake an exercise through which we will select the most distinguished universities with experience and contributions to achieve the UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs.
- Furthermore, selected universities will be provided with an official invitation and choice of several levels of engagement in WASD’s Annual Sustainability conferences across the world and will be invited to join the conference keynote speakers’ panels. This can be through the Vice Chancellor or the Dean of the selected institution taking part in one of the different panels’ discussions.
- Selected universities will be included in our annual SDGsUNI Global/Regional/National Directories focusing on SDGs. The directory will be launched officially during the conference and complementary copies will be distributed across the world. The recipients will include top experts in the field of SDGs, UN and high government officials and policymakers, company directors, etc.
- In the post-Covid 19 era of global skills and the knowledge race, SDGsKSAUNi will help your university to accomplish your natural and ascribed roles as a strategic agent for KSA’s national collective efforts to catch-up and be on track to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs.
- Integrate and reconnect your curriculum in all subjects relevant to the 17 SDGs and place more focus on issues relevant to KSA’s developmental needs.
- Become more sensitive and responsive to developing graduates who can compete in the global and intensely competitive knowledge/digital economy. Your university will become more attractive to new students who are very keen to join universities that can help them better understand the global sustainability challenges and how to solve these problems in the future.
- Provide practical recommendations and actions to help your university improve and transform the way it conducts and uses research to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs. Your university will also be able to attract more research funding from different organizations across the world who are very keen to fund research projects focusing on issues around the UN’s 17 SDGs.
- Access to our highly experienced marketing services including branding and promotion videos for your university to enhance your university’s profile in the international market.
- Free training and capacity-building resources including our flagship workshop “Accelerate Universities Role for the Implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs” as well access to many other courses from our Sustainability Academy.
- Full access to top SDGs research hubs of your choice.
- Help and facilitation of your university’s membership with major international HE bodies such as Advance HE; IEEE; CIMA; CIM; PMI; etc.
- Help setup your new international referred journal including critical assessment of your existing journals to be submitted to major indexing databases such as Scopus.
- Access to our office up to four weeks (staff and resources) in London, UK.
- Range of discounts (10%-100%) for all participating universities in all WASD conferences, workshops, and training programmes.
Why Now?
In the post Covid-19 era of global skills and knowledge race, universities cannot fail to realise, accept and accomplish their natural and ascribed roles (also remotely) as a strategic agent for national development to achieve the United Nations Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs. Universities must therefore confront new realities rapidly manifesting themselves in a diversely complex and fast-changing world. Business as usual will not suffice. Universities need to be expansively re-focused in order to become more sensitive and responsive to its mission of developing graduates who, in addition to conventional graduate training, are also able to help their countries achieve the Agenda 2030 and its SDGs.
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