17 Rooms Secretariat Webinar: Advancing SDGs on campus using the 17 Rooms approach

Date

Monday March 4, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location

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 Coalition鈥檚  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 鈥 Cote d鈥橧voire, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan 鈥 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 鈥渄eep dive鈥 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.