17 Rooms Secretariat Webinar: Advancing SDGs on campus using the 17 Rooms approach
Date
Monday March 4, 202410:00 am - 11:00 am
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Event Category
If you are interested in understanding more about how 17 Rooms-X can help support community-led action for people and the planet, please join us for an upcoming event, , on Monday, March 4, from 10:00 to 11:00 am EST.
Held during University Global Coalitions and , the session will feature 17 Rooms organizers and participants, including:
- Aanuoluwa Adiji, Federal University of Technology Akure (Nigeria), Millennium Fellowship campus director
- Ifeoluwa Bodunde, Lead City University (Nigeria), University Global Coalition Room 2
- Garv Jain, Fairfax County Public Schools (United States)
- Sophie Javers, University of California Davis (United States), University Global Coalition Room 2
- Melody Nguyen, Pace University (United States), Millennium Fellowship campus director
for the Zoom event.
Recent 17 Rooms highlights
- The was released in December. It celebrates ideas and actions from the annual flagship cohort, which convened more than 320 people worldwide. You can read all the Room action summaries
- at 50 campuses worldwide have been adapting 17 Rooms as part of their program curriculum. Learn more about these efforts on Friday, March 8 at 10:00 am ET when the undergraduate students share their learnings during 17 Rooms Campus Coalition for Global Goals. .
- The global network led local 17 Rooms-X summits in seven countries Cote dIvoire, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan to amplify their generosity campaigns and increase action towards the SDGs. Watch GivingTuesday Nigeria's 17 Rooms highlight video !
- The , with support from the University of the Sacred Heart Sustainable Development Program, organized a 17 Rooms summit on November 17 to help launch their Voluntary Local Review.
- launched a deep dive 17 Rooms series to help catalyze and advance SDG-relevant collaborations across their transdisciplinary global research network. Their 17 Rooms will come together to share out findings at the annual Sustainability Research and Innovation congress this June in Finland.
- (Canada) efforts are now underway! McGill students are organizing a series of eight Rooms over the next two months to advance interdisciplinary, intra-university action across all SDGs.
Upcoming 17 Rooms-X
- Colombia and Czech Republic country leads are conducting their 17 Rooms-X summits in March.
- campus directors are actively planning a range of 17 Rooms-X sessions, including at (United States) on April 20.
- The , in partnership with the and (United States), is organizing a 17 Rooms-X summit on June 12. Anyone interested can learn more and register to participate .
- (United States) is planning a 17 Rooms-X summit with students, faculty, staff, and community stakeholders on June 26 as a side event to the .
Do you have an idea about how 17 Rooms-X could be used in your community? If so, you can submit your idea anytime! The Secretariat reviews these ideas on a rolling basis.