17.4.3 Education for SDGs in the Wider Community

Educational Outreach Program:

Fight against Discrimination and Inequality

Reducing inequalities and ensuring no one is left behind are integral to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Aswan University has launched an Educational Outreach Program “Fight against Discrimination and Inequality” in attempt to engage a large audience and to bring knowledge and expertise to the general public on the importance of implementing the SDGs, notably, ending Discrimination and Inequality.

Aswan University has launched the initiative in collaboration with the Future Association for Development, the Coptic Evangelical Authority under the title Forum for Dialogue of Cultures, with the participation of civil society institutions that work to spread awareness and development.

Aswan University, through Outreach  activities  is working  to  Outreach activities can take several  forms,  such  as  school presentations,  workshops,  public  talks  and  lab  visits,  etc.  The objective  of  outreach  is  to  explain the  benefits  of  implementing the Sustainable Development Goals  to  a  larger  public. Outreach implies an interaction between the sender and the  receiver  of  the  message,  there  is  an  engagement  and  a  two-way  communication between the University and the public.