The Sustainable Development Goals: Activities, goals and challenges for UNESCO Chairs
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Presentation of UNESCO Chair in Sustainability (UPC-Barcelona Tech) by Ángel Gallego during the Meeting of the UNESCO Chairs Working Group held in Barcelona last September 29.
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- 1. Jordi Morató Jordi.morato@upc.edu Ángel Gallegos angel.gallegos@me.com UNESCO Chairs Working Group Meeting HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD REPORT 6 Towards socially responsible HEi, globally and locally engaged The Sustainable Development Goals: Activities, goals and challenges for UNESCO Chairs September 29th, Sant Pau, Barcelona
- 2. ¿Activities, goals and challenges for the UNESCO Chairs? http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals
- 5. UNESCO Chairs Launched in 1992, the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme promotes international inter-university cooperation and networking to enhance institutional capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work. The Programme supports the establishment of UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in key priority areas related to UNESCO’s fields of competence – i.e. in education, the natural and social sciences, culture and communication. http://en.unesco.org/unitwin-unesco-chairs-programme
- 7. UNESCO Chair on Sustainability (UNESCOSost) – UPC The main objective of this UNESCO Chair is to become a critical, reflective, open and interdisciplinary space, to help technology refocus on sustainable development, to reduce imbalances and to strengthen diversity.
- 8. Objectives • To promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities focused on the interactions between the economic, socio-political, technologic and ecologic spheres. • To develop, within the network of universities, an innovative plan having for objective to prepare the students for the careers and ways of life of the 21st century.
- 9. Objectives • Act as a platform to promote the dialogue between government, local authorities, companies, unions, scientific communities, NGOs, etc., and therefore contribute to policy formulation. • Adopt a holistic approach to global change that rests on a multidisciplinary basis and understands the integration of scientific facts and knowledge with humanistic principles and objectives.
- 10. Promotes international multi-stakeholder cooperation and networking to enhance [their] capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work. Enhance Stakeholders Capacities
- 11. Key Concepts Enhance Stakeholders Capacities
- 12. Key Concepts Enhance Stakeholders Capacities Inclusive and Participatory PM
- 13. Càtedres UNESCO Catalanes – UNESCOCat Links: Xarxa Global universitaria per a la Innovació - http://www.guni-rmies.net Xarxa Civil UNESCO a Catalunya - http://xarxacivilunesco.blogspot.com.es Web Page: http://www.catedresunesco.cat
- 14. UNESCOCat – Thematic Areas HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AND CULTURE
- 15. UNESCOCat – International Activities 15 9 19 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 América Àfrica Europa Àsia Countries Continent
- 16. UNESCOCat – International Activities America Estats Units Canadà Mèxic Cuba Hondures El Salvador Colòmbia Perú Bolívia Argentina Brasil Uruguai Veneçuela Panamà Guatemala Africa Tunísia Senegal Moçambic Tchad Burkina Fasso Nigèria Etiòpia Marroc Egipte Europa Ginebra -UN França Portugal Itàlia Espanya Sèrbia Rússia Gran Bretanya Alemanya Polònia Malta Bèlgica Geòrgia Grècia Xipre Romania Turquia Eslovènia Irlanda asia and Pacífic Xina Corea Bangladesh Palestina Síria Líban Kazakhstan Tadjikistan Uzbekistan Nova Caledònia
- 18. Networking
- 19. 1983 ® Jorge Melguizo Posada. 1983 Landfill in operation Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), Medellín - Col
- 20. 2004 ® Alcaldía de Medellín. 2004 • 2.224 families = 10.000 hab. • 1.500.000 Tons garbage • 7,6 Ha - 42,5 m max height 2004 Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), Medellín - Col
- 21. Heavy metals Lead: 403-489 ppm Pb Chrome: 166-241 ppm Cr
- 22. Semana de Moravia Open dialogue for technicians and population Participatory & Inclusive Inform Consult InvolveConcert Participatory Transformation Process
- 23. Socio-environmental Transformation - Community Leaders Formation Moravia Community Garden Group
- 24. Promote local identity and social cohesion through participatory activities for environmental transformation and urban recovery of degraded dump area. Buffer-strips Link the inhabitants to the transformation process through leisure activities around gardening. Moravia Community Garden Group
- 25. Moravia Community Garden Group Community Empowerment – Labour Market Acces
- 26. 2004 Socio-environmental transformation and recovery of urban degraded areas
- 27. 2011 Socio-environmental transformation and recovery of urban degraded areas
- 28. 2012 Socio-environmental transformation and recovery of urban degraded areas
- 29. 2013 Socio-environmental transformation and recovery of urban degraded areas
- 30. 2015
- 31. Moravia
- 33. Launched in November 2014. RESURBE program aims to realize research, capacity building and urban development projects worldwide; as well as to support informed policy making, on urban resilience and climate change adaptation/mitigation. RESURBE program operates through an interdisciplinary and international platform, facilitating knowledge co-creation and exchange, through best practices, between local and regional governments, universities and research centres, international organizations and other stakeholders from private and public sectors. RESURBE adopts a participatory community development approach, by favouring systemic socio-eco-innovation to reduce the vulnerability of local communities and to improve human wellbeing. RESURBE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 34. RESURBE Currently: 40 partner organizations 175 participants By end 2015: 60 partner organizations 200 participants INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 35. Cities and local communities have a central role in climate change adaptation & mitigation, and risk reduction. Cities and local communities are increasingly and exponentially facing the effects of climate change, requiring immediate planning and action. Cities and local communities are already developing climate change integrated solutions and projects (risk, adaptation, mitigation). WHYRESURBE RISK AWARD 2015 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 36. Co-creation of a common knowledge base; Systematic collection of best practices and case studies worldwide ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 37. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE KEY MESSAGE Involve local communities from a holistic vision for the definition of public policies that respect the historic decisions and thus promote the articulation of initiatives and the implementation of projects to socio-environmental change.
- 38. SPRINGER’SBOOKSERIES Resilient Cities: Re-thinking Urban Transformation Book series by Springer Nicola Tollin, Jordi Morato, Ernesto Gonzales Series editors 7 edited books to be published by 2016-2017 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 39. NEXTEVENTS RESURBE III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN RESILIENCE 16-20 February 2016 UNAM Ciudad de México INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 40. NEXTEVENTS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM on URBAN RESILIENCE
- 41. Challenges for the UNESCO Chairs Programme [To promote] international [multi-stakeholder] cooperation and networking to enhance [their] capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work. [To support] the establishment of UNESCO Chairs Networks in key priority areas related to Sustainable Development Goals Towards socially responsible HEi, globally and locally engaged
- 42. " The complexity of what we are now facing in a rapidly climate changing world, suggest that no one individual, group or organization has all the necessary skills or competences either to comprehensively understand the challenges involved or to design appropriate solutions." John Colvin 'Learning to Live with Climate Change' (2009) Open University, UK 3 of 10 –Terrassa Minyons (Human Towers) 22 nov. 1998 - Terrassa - Barcelona
- 43. Jordi Morató Jordi.morato@upc.edu Ángel Gallegos angel.gallegos@me.com UNESCO Chairs Working Group Meeting HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD REPORT 6 Towards socially responsible HEi, globally and locally engaged The Sustainable Development Goals: Activities, goals and challenges for UNESCO Chairs September 29th, Sant Pau, Barcelona
Editor's Notes
- Good Morning, in representation of Jordi Morató, UNESCO Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability of the Univesitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, I would like to thank you to the Organizers, for invite us to participate in this Working Group Meeting to talk about the Activities, goals and challenges that the UNESCO Chairs facing with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, he couldn't attend the meeting because a previous compromise, so he asked me to participate and it's really a pleasure to be here. Mi name is Angel Gallegos, I'm Chief Project Manager at the UNESCOSost, as we call to the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability.
- When the organisers invited us to talk about our experience on the activities, goals and challenges facing UNESCO chairs with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals, the first questions that we discussed in UNESCOSost were: What would we like to say about it? How could we transmit the essence of our idea?
- After a brainstorming meeting, We saw the light at the end of the tunnel…
- Fortunately the train was not coming towards us, so we are here…
- We decided go back to the Basics. Launched in 1992, the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme promotes international inter-university cooperation and networking to enhance institutional capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work, in key priority areas related to UNESCO’s fields of competence (education, the natural and social sciences, culture and communication).
- The UNESCO Chair on Sustainability was established in 1996 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTec (Spain).
- The main objective is to become a critical, reflective, open and interdisciplinary space, to help technology refocus on sustainable development, to reduce imbalances and to strengthen diversity.
- UNESCOSOST has as Objectives. To promote an integrated system focused on the interactions between the economic, socio-political, technologic and ecologic spheres. Prepare the students for the careers and ways of life.
- Act as a platform to promote the dialogue between different entities Adopt a holistic approach to global change that rests on a multidisciplinary basis and understands the integration of scientific facts with humanistic principles.
- UNESCOSost promotes international multi-skateholder cooperation and networking to enhance [their] capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work.
- With the aim to become a critical, reflective, open and interdisciplinary space and a platform that promote the dialogue and the interactions between the economic, socio-political- technologic and ecologic spheres and the integration of scientific facts with humanistic principles, with the objective to prepare stakeholders for the changes on the ways of life.
- An important concept about this work, is the Inclusive and Participatory Project Management Methodology used to enhance Stakeholders Capacities
- a garbage hill, of 50 m depth. Full of urban wastes, mainly plastic bottles, etc. but with a presence of different pollutants.
- After its closing and after the nighties (90) in a hard period in Medellin, different people, displaced from rurals areas come to Medellin, and come to live in that area.
- Some years later, studies characterized the matrix and leachate at depths up to 30 m, containing phenols, benzene and heavy metals (chromium, cadmium, lead and nickel), which surpassed permissible levels [2]–[4]. The soil instability, high slopes, fragility of the informal constructions and the presence of industrial, domestic and clinic garbage combined with the continuous emanation of toxic gases and leachate caused an elevated chemical and microbiological risk to the population (presenting only 0.37 m2 of public space per inhabitant). The matrix conditions together with the HM levels in water remark that the Moravia dump is heavily contaminated, making the space inhabitable and being a threat of pollution for the nearby areas
- We constituye a Moravia Community Garden Group in order to engage the different leadershipss from the community.
- Therefore we ink the …
- The most remarkable aspects in our activities is the multilevel research work and the concepts that involve. We are working with different professionals at different levels which enhance the projects results with new ideas and perspectives. In other words a Collaborative Work in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.
- We believe Challenges for the UNESCO Chairs Programme are To promote] international [multi-stakeholder] cooperation and networking to enhance [their] capacities through knowledge sharing and collaborative work in order to support] the establishment of UNESCO Chairs Networks in key priority areas related to Sustainable Development Goals, Towards socially responsible Higher Education institutes, globally and locally engaged
- Good Morning, in representation of Jordi Morató, UNESCO Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability of the Univesitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, I would like to thank you to the Organizers, for invite us to participate in this Working Group Meeting to talk about the Activities, goals and challenges that the UNESCO Chairs facing with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, he couldn't attend the meeting because a previous compromise, so he asked me to participate and it's really a pleasure to be here. Mi name is Angel Gallegos, I'm Chief Project Manager at the UNESCOSost, as we call to the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability.