Category Archives: 2019

Launched in July 2019, this publication highlights the capacity of Higher Education Institutions to support progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and provides pathways for this work.

Including lessons learned, case studies, and more, the web-based platform offers a dynamic and engaging way to further the dialogue about how universities, as the knowledge sector, can advance progress on developing solutions to pressing global challenges.

Directly visit the platform here.

Learn more about Sustainability Initiative here.

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Global Priorities, Educated Solutions

The role of academia in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

Co-authored by members of the IARU institutions, Global Priorities, Educated Solutions: the role of academia in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, is an online publication that explores the role of academia in advancing the SDGs. The purpose of this project is to identify the specific pathways for universities to engage in fostering dialogue, innovating, measuring, reporting, and developing solutions for the 17 goals.

The publication is framed around four complementary themes:

• Scholarship for solutions: innovation and experiential teaching and research in the context of the SDGs.
• Walking the talk: how campuses can lead by example in terms of operational excellence and using the campus as a test bed for innovation.
• Next generation innovation: the role of students in advancing world-changing ideas.
• Service for society: universities as thought-leaders and collaborative partners in addressing global challenges.

Each chapter includes an introduction to explain the track, a review of opportunities, a section on hurdles and solutions, and a set of case studies, and some additional quick tips. The site also includes a repository of resources for further reading and links for where to find more information.

This publication will be maintained online to support ongoing updates and spontaneous translation to other languages. 

IARU Aging, Longevity and Health (ALH) has produced a report on the Graduate Student Conference held on 17 October 2018 in Singapore.

A Graduate Student Conference was held to enable graduate students to gain exposure to more in-depth scientific discussions as well as macro national policy and programme issues surrounding the key ageing themes. Held on 17 October, there were twelve invited presentations and fifteen graduate student presentations. The conference was followed by two days of roundtables discussions to enable more indepth exchanges between the experts and key policy and practice representatives in Singapore. The graduate student presenters were invited to the roundtable to expose them to these much needed cross sectoral deliberations.

Read the full report here. 

Learn more about ALH.

The IARU Sustainability Initiative has produced a report on the program hosted by IARU during the Annual Conference of the International Sustainable Campus Network, 12 June 2018 in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

This event and report were organized with support from the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and with in-kind support from IARU members. The event was done in collaboration with the International Sustainable Campus Network and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).

This report was developed and written by four students from IARU institutions: Elsie Moore (lead – Yale University), Whitney Pailman (University of Cape Town), Rupert Stuart-Smith (University of Oxford), Mikayla Tran (University of California, Berkeley).

Read the full report here. 

Learn more about the IARU Sustainability Initiative here.