Aswan University is committed to helping to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to tackle the biggest problems facing our planet. The SDGs provide a very useful framework for coordinating sustainability across our university. We commit ourselves to a sustainable, just and inclusive society. We have a responsibility to our students and the wider society to educate future professionals who are ready to meet our global social, economic and environmental challenges. However, our responsibility to contribute to the SDGs goes beyond what we teach our students. It is about the contribution of our research, the way we run our campus and how we behave towards each other.
In the light of working towards the UN sustainable development Goals, Aswan University has taken upon itself to implement these Goals in collaboration with community and other sectors other than the higher education, in accordance with the commitments in its strategic plan and Egypt Vision 2030.
Aswan University’s Strategic Plan which has been reviewed and then approved to continue its terms for 2022/ 2023 by the University Council; reinforces its commitment to ensure that future graduates have basic knowledge on sustainable development and both individual and organizational sustainability and responsibility. For this purpose, Aswan University has taken further steps in order to address the social, economic and environmental challenges the world is currently facing, and in order to reach the sustainable development goals, all current and future decision makers urgently need to improve their “Sustainable Literacy “.
Our Strategy:
Integrate the SDGs and the principles of Education for Sustainable Development into all undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as graduate research training including undergraduate and graduate teaching, professional training, executive and adult education, online learning, co-curricular activities, and student clubs and societies – have a very important role to play in SDG implementation.
- Provide students with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to understand and address the
- Challenges of the SDGs
- Empower and mobilise young people
- Provide in-depth academic or vocational training to implement SDG solutions
- Enhance opportunities for capacity building of students and professionals to address challenges relating to the SDGs
