SDG Training

Join us for two afternoons of engaging discussion, skills training, and group activities, and earn a certificate upon completion.

Do you have a passion for solving social challenges to improve lives? Do you want to learn about the world’s “to-do list”, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), empower yourself to become a changemaker and activist through the knowledge of localized context on the SDGs, and where/how you can intervene and innovate and make an impact? Do you want to receive a certificate issued by an UN-accredited organization that also has a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations?

SDG Training, Module 1 of our SDG Innovation Lab aims to raise awareness about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, to ensure a foundational understanding of what the goals are, how they came to be, and how participants can become better advocates and champions of sustainable development in their communities. SDG Training empowers participants with the knowledge and skills to become sustainability changemakers.

SDG Training is a two-part program with a pre-event activity, aiming to not only educate participants about the SDGs but to activate changemakers and help them build their ideas into action.

Pre-Event activity: You will be provided access to Video modules about a week before the event to give a brief introduction to the UN SDGs through the 5P’s they are categorized into (People, Prosperity, Planet, Peace, Partnerships).

February 25th activities are led by the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES) and two keynote speakers: Steve Lee, a young climate change activist, a policy advocate to the United Nations, and Executive Director of FES; and Julie Marshall, Canadian Spokesperson for United Nations World Food Programme.

After this main presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to chat with Steve and Julie in a live Q&A.

March 4th has two sessions:

First, Localization Session: A one-hour module that will educate and provide localized baselines and specific examples of SDGs challenges to empower participants to become changemakers and activists to intervene, innovate and make an impact.

Second, Action Plan Development Session: A two-hour workshop that equips participants with design thinking skills to develop SDG-focused projects for local implementation in a group setting challenging them to critically think about their sustainability objectives and tangible ways to meet them.

This live, module + breakout sessions format provides participants with knowledge of the steps needed to create an action plan, and the time to collaborate with peers on solutions and implementation design.

The partner organization (FES) will also provide participants with certificates issued by this UN-accredited organization which also has a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

Join us for our SDG Training sessions and let’s work for a better planet!

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