INtegration of sustainable deVelOpment goaLs in uniVErsities for better climate change management Erasmus Project

Project Title

INtegration of sustainable deVelOpment goaLs in uniVErsities for better climate change management

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Egypt SDGs Agenda for 2030, aiming to build up collaborative channels between EG HEIs and local, regional and global organizations for the implementation of the SDGs, enhance the innovation skills of students, use technology to develop a system of gathering, monitoring and reporting data to enforce implementation of the UN SDGs, create programs involving SDGs awareness and agenda, and motivate funding organizations to continuously modernize and finance the EG HEIs.INVOLVE is aiming at strengthening the role of the Egyptian Universities in the achievement of the environmental Sustainable Development Goals “SDGs” through enhancing their organizational governance capacities, creating current and future SDGs implementers, and upgrading their operational facilities necessary to the implementation of innovative practices for the achievement of the environmental SDGs for better climate change management. This will be expressed by the outputs of the project; Sustainable Development Center in EG HEIs providing knowledge and skills of SDGs, environmental SDGs Videos and Booklets, University wide module on Sustainable Development, trained EG staff in EU, updated EG HEIs strategic plans in the context of SDGs, official decrees in EG HEIs integrating environmental SDGs in their daily operations, and mobile equipment for environmental measurements leading to environmentally sustainable Campuses in EG HEIs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 836594 Eur

Project Coordinator

ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY & Country: EG

Project Partners

• ZEWAIL CITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
• ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MARITIME TRANSPORT
• HELIOPOLIS UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
• UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
• EVRO-SREDOZEMSKA UNIVERZA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SASSARI