United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals and Co-Creation

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This Summer School unfolds the United Nations’ sustainable development goals through student participation in a cross-cultural and cross-educational context.
You will get a unique opportunity to obtain new knowledge, while learning to solve real-life problems related to the Sustainable Development Goals through problem-based learning. The goals derive from the United Nations’ international agreements on processing towards explicit sustainability in 2030.

They are unique in that they call for action from all countries; poor, rich and middle-income alike to promote prosperity, all the while protecting the planet. The course will focus on global topics related to the sustainable development goals.

As an important part of the summer school, you will get real-life challenges from co-creative partners outside VIA University College. The co-creative partners can be NGOs, private companies, socio-economic companies/organisations or public authorities. Students are free to choose among several challenges all related to the UN’s 17 SDGs. You will work in close cooperation with the partners to find relevant and useful solutions to the challenges. The solutions will contribute to the partners’ daily activities. The course focuses mainly on goals related to issues such as social equality and social inclusion, nutrition, health and culture combined with environmental issues.