Sustainable Development and Climate Change are most pressing issues in Present Time
United Nations together with 193 Countries launched Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 2016 to 2030 having 17 Goals and 169 targets (Agenda 2030) towards solving development problems.
But this require consistent efforts, funding, implementation, monitoring of various approaches and engagement of every Citizen to be successful
Thus, we are creating awareness and capacity building among school students, college youth, community, professionals through organizing various activities in the April month celebrated as Earth month under Sustainable Smart Harita Earth Month, and Harita week spread around the year comprising workshop, training and other events based on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), system, and holistic approach and organized side events during the United Nations (UN) High Level Political Forum (HLPF), UN STI Forum, Water Summit, and Stockholm+50 for above advocacy.
Integrated, interlinking, implementation of the SDGs through Education for 2030 Agenda and Building Sustainability
Virtual Side Event: 17th July 2023 | 08:00 AM NYT | 05:30 PM IST
Objectives
HLPF this year's theme is “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”, which will address promising developments for accelerating progress and full implementation towards the SDGs. Building an integrated, indivisible, interlinking of the SDGs and effective path for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda with SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11, and 17 require inclusive, quality education. In this regard, the role of Science, Technology, Innovation through learning with games and hands-on activities is very important, and our work showed that students, youth understand, take action for climate change, SDGs.
HaritaDhara Research Development and Education Foundation (HRDEF) is in special consultative status with the United Nations (UN) ECOSOC since 2018 and working on education transformation through Games, hands-on activities, project based Learning for Sustainability Concepts, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by Youth and Community for couple of years and presented our work at the TECH 2017, 2018 UNESCO MGIEP Global conference, UNESCO ESD 2021, UN STI 2022, and UN HLPF side event 2021, 2022. We designed, developed games, and hands-on activities for understanding difficult concepts related to sustainable development in an interactive way. Games are unique with their rules, choices, consequences, constraints, and good educational games force players to form theories, develop computational thinking. We discuss use of games for students and youth in different settings for advancing SDGs, building sustainability concepts that lead to climate action. HRDEF inculcate, motivates students for science, technology, engineering, arts and design, mathematics (STEAM) for 21st Century Sustainable living through intelligent interactive learning systems. Apps on SDGs, COVID-19, hands-on activities, quiz, model making, projects and other creative forms of expressions increased learners motivation towards science, SDGs, and building sustainability.
Speakers
Anant Bhaskar Garg, Director, HRDEF | Dr. Manisha Agarwal, Coordinator, NavUrja Sanchar