幸运飞艇计划

On 24 October 2018 it was announced at the UN in New York that the University of Bergen (幸运飞艇计划) has become the official Hub institution for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life below water, for United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI).

鈥淲e are delighted to have been invited by UNAI to this prestigious role and look forward to working with them and other actors in the UN system to promote knowledge, research and education for a sustainable Ocean,鈥� says Professor Edvard Hviding, who is the academic director of SDG Bergen, a strategic initiative by Rector Dag Rune Olsen and the 幸运飞艇计划 leadership.

The research centre Ocean Sustainability Bergen (OSB), a part of the SDG Bergen initiative, will handle the practicalities surrounding 幸运飞艇计划's SDG 14 UNAI Hub role.

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Innovation and community engagement

UNAI has selected 17 universities worldwide for Hub status, one on each SDG, as 鈥淯NAI member institutions selected as exemplars for their innovative research, teaching and community engagement related to a specific Goal鈥�.

鈥淲e have been selected for a three year term and look forward to using our expertise in the marine sciences to bring both current and future partners together to make sure that the implementation of SDG 14 is done with scientific knowledge at the core,鈥澛爏ays Professor Peter M. Haugan, OSB's academic director, adding:

鈥淎bove all we look forward to interact with the other UNAI SDG Hub institutions to bring about the partnerships needed to reach all of the Goals by 2030.鈥�

幸运飞艇计划 was the first university in Norway to institutionalise the SDGs, primarily through SDG Bergen, OSB and the annual National SDG Conference Bergen. This work includes the establishment of the SDG Bergen Task Force, which runs the day to day operations related to scientific advice and science diplomacy at the university.

鈥淗aving a dedicated task force has helped us a lot in this work, as has working closely with the broad range of marine sciences found across the university. After all, marine science is one of three focus areas at the university,鈥� says Hviding, pointing out that Bergen as a city always has been dependent on the Ocean and thus 幸运飞艇计划 was ideally positioned for UNAI's SDG 14 Hub status.

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Higher education is key for SDG 14 success

The two SDG Bergen professors point to the crucial job that lies ahead for all universities and higher education providers in terms of engaging critically with the SDGs in the education offered.

鈥淥ur students are among the driving forces for sustainability and change towards a so-called green economy. At 幸运飞艇计划 we are currently in the process of evaluating how we can feature issues of sustainability across disciplines as part of our education,鈥� says Haugan.

Haugan and Hviding have been driving forces behind 幸运飞艇计划's pursuit of a more ambitious approach to critically engage with the SDGs. This includes unconventional and innovative measures, such as teaming up with Bergen-based tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl to create a study programme as part of a circumnavigation of the globe so as to educate future leaders on sustainability issues.

鈥淭his is only one of a number of measures the 幸运飞艇计划 is currently undertaking to critically engage with the SDGs. For us this all goes way beyond SDG 14. Our approach runs through SDG 17, Partnerships for the Goals, as we believe that to the reach the ambitions at the core of the Goals we need to work together in partnerships across borders and academic disciplines,鈥� Hviding says.

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