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Addressing the
Knowledge Gap

Bridging The Gap

Education is at the core of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A recently conducted survey among students from senior high school measured the self-reported knowledge, sources of information, learning situations, priorities, the impact of personal life and career planning with respect to the SDGs to understand their cognition, learning motivation and social readiness.

The results show that students’ knowledge and information sources in relation to the SDGs are limited, and there is no significant difference between boys and girls in relation to their knowledge of the SDGs, the source of information, the learning level of the SDGs, impact of personal life on the SDGs and career planning related to the SDGs.

It is also shown that students have a better understanding of the number of the UN SDGs and the countries to which the SDGs are addressed and students receive information about the SDGs via formal education and traditional media.

Ten Years to Change the World.

Educating. Empowering. Mobilising Students.

Universities play an instrumental role in empowering its students to become the drivers of change. So universities need to lead by example and demonstrate being a collaborative institution by incorporating the SDGs for themselves, activating relevant SDG solutions and educating its student community and other stakeholders to create a more sustainable future for all.
Expanding Human Capital
With an SDG perspective: first, by training students to understand how the SDGs are going to make their work better and more sustainable. The SDGs shouldn’t only be part of international development programmes but about embedding sustainable development principles across disciplines.
Research

Researchers at universities need to understand what approaches are more effective and analyze the process of implementing the 2030 Agenda. Some of the topics will require new conceptual frameworks, for instance, in better understanding... the interlinkages and correlations among different goals. Research will help us to understand better the costs of implementing the SDGs, but also the opportunity costs of not investing sufficiently in the SDGs.

Researchers at universities need to understand what approaches are more effective and analyze the process of implementing the 2030 Agenda. Some of the topics will require new conceptual frameworks, for instance, in better understanding… the interlinkages and correlations among different goals. Research will help us to understand better the costs of implementing the SDGs, but also the opportunity costs of not investing sufficiently in the SDGs.
Implementing the Agenda
From a role of observers, universities are increasingly becoming actors in multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs. University researchers and students are participating hands-on in projects with their expertise, time and financial resources.

Source: www.un.org/en/academic-impact/universities-getting-ready-sdgs

Paloma Duran, SDG Fund Director