SDG Week Canada 2024
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration that took place from March 4-8, 2024 featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses. Brought to you by the Sustainability Hub at UBC, SDSN Canada hosted by the University of Waterloo, and Colleges and Institutes Canada.
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Raise awareness around SDGs through interdisciplinary teaching and learning opportunities.
Institutionalize SDGs in campus operations, strategic planning, instruction, and research.
Create a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment for institutions to advance SDGs.
Incorporate guiding values from SDGs into conversations to inform solutions.
Calendar of Events 2024
Find out what events and activities were hosted by Canada’s colleges, institutes, and universities from March 4-8.
Interested in international events on the SDGs being hosted on campuses around the world? Check out our collaborator the University Global Coalition SDG Action and Awareness Week, also taking place March 4-8, 2024.
Participate
Campus representatives are invited to submit their SDG events to the Calendar of Events to participate in SDG Week Canada 2024. Participants will have access to resources and materials to support SDG Week Canada event planning and delivery on their campuses. Learn more from the 2023 SDG Week Canada information webinar.
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Promotions and Marketing
A national social media campaign will run during SDG Week Canada as the main communications tool to unite campus events. We’ll share communications materials and hashtags with participating campus organizers to use in their social media posts when promoting their events with national and international audiences.
Events can also be submitted in advance of SDG Week Canada to organizing partners who will aggregate all submitted events into a curated list by theme and/or type to share widely through the regular promotions of SDG Week Canada. This curated list will also serve as an idea bank for future SDG weeks, complete with links and acknowledgements on campuses organizing each event.
Disclaimer: Multiple Canadian post-secondary institutions contribute to the delivery of SDG Week Canada. The opinions represented in the SDG Week Canada programming are those of the campus entity organizing them and do not necessarily reflect the views of other participants in SDG Week Canada or the organizing partners.
About
SDG Week Canada is an annual collaborative initiative that invites all of Canada’s universities and colleges to organize workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals
• Raise awareness of the SDGs through interdisciplinary teaching and learning opportunities on post-secondary campuses.
• Build long-term momentum around the SDGs in Canada’s post-secondary sector by embedding and institutionalizing the SDGs in campus operations, strategic planning, teaching, learning, and research.
• Create a cross-disciplinary collaborative environment for post-secondary institutions to work together and across sectors to advance the SDGs in Canada.
• Integrate the guiding values of the SDGs to create inclusive and respectful conversations to inform universal, transformative, and interconnected solutions.
Partners
Campuses hosting SDG Week Canada events in 2024 included:
University of Saskatchewan, Acadia University, Western University, Capilano University, University of Alberta, Ontario Tech University, University of British Columbia, York University (UNESCO Chair), Thompson Rivers University, McMaster University, University of the Fraser Valley, University of Windsor, Lakehead University, University of Ottawa, Western University – Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen’s University, Brock University, University of Toronto, Université Laval, Fanshawe College, Centennial College, Humber College, LaSalle College Vancouver, Nova Scotia Community College, Selkirk College, Sheridan College, Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Iles, Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer, Canadore College, LaSalle College Vancouver, Red Deer Polytechnic, Lambton College, Confederation College, Douglas College, Professors Without Borders, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), UNESCO Chair at York University & Professors Without Borders
Timeline
Nov 2023 : Launch of SDG Week Canada 2024
Nov 2023 – Feb 2024: Event Planning
February: Submit Events for Online Calendar
March 4-8, 2024: SDG Week
Explore
Thirty-three campuses organized more than 100 events as part of SDG Week Canada 2024. Find out what events and activities were hosted by Canada’s colleges and universities from March 6-10, 2024.
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Learn
Arrange for a Guest Speaker or Speaker Series: Engage on and off campus sustainability educators, topic experts, community leaders, and innovators.
Share Findings from Research Happening on Campus: Invite faculty and graduate students to present on their research findings for SDG-oriented work they are doing.
Engage Faculty on Teaching and Learning for the SDGs: Work with faculty across campus to integrate the SDGs in lectures and seminars. Many great resources already exist to draw from (e.g. video resources from the SDG Academy and curricular resources).
Organize a Panel or Workshop: Create a space for interdisciplinary learning and critical engagement with sustainability issues focused on participant-driven reflection, brainstorming, and action planning (e.g. Decolonizing the 2030 Agenda, the Future of the SDGs).
Host a Movie Screening: Use film to give audiences opportunities to learn about sustainability issues from local and global community perspectives (e.g. The Radicals by Beyond Boarding Collective).
Engage
Create an SDGs Competition: Provide opportunities to win prizes/start-up capital to encourage engagement with sustainability issues and innovation in sustainability solutions (e.g. sustainability hackathon, SDGs pitch competition).
Organize an SDGs Scavenger Hunt: Showcase work that is already being done to progress sustainability on campus by organizing with campus services, faculty, and student clubs to have each host digital and in-person “points of interest” on campus as part of the scavenger hunt.
Host a 17 Rooms Event: Convene your campus community to identify cooperative actions to take over the coming 12-18 months to advance the SDGs.
Organize a Networking Event: Connect students with professionals in sustainability-related businesses and organizations to highlight career opportunities in sustainability, explore interests, and build meaningful and professional connections.
Storytelling Session: A guided facilitation to support the sharing of different perspectives, identities, and interests (e.g. Sharing Session, YCAP Climate Storytelling Workshop).