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Portuguese University Advocates for Creative Tourism in Small Cities

Creative tourism aims to offer visitors new experiences by stimulating their active participation in the places they visit and promoting their contact and involvement with locals as well as their traditions. “Cultural and creative tourism can make important contributions to cultural preservation and the socio-economic development and empowerment of local communities, especially when world civilizations are linked to creative tourism,” reads the��.

Utah Valley University Hosts International Academic Conference on the SDGs

This Wednesday, 5 October 2022, at the campus of��, a member institution of the��United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)��in the United States, located in the city of Orem, Utah, took place the opening of the����co-organized by the host institution and the United Nations Department of Global Communications, through the Civil Society Unit and UNAI, with participants from around the world.

From University Classrooms to the Field: Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

"Future improvements in agriculture and food systems will continue to rely on enhanced efficiency – producing more with less – but greater emphasis will be needed on the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability," says a technical reference document titled����published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

Advanced Farm 360��is an institutional development project of the Polytechnic School at the��, a member institution of the��United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)��in Brazil, which aims to enhance teaching, research, extension, and innovation in agriculture. It has three main focuses: precision agriculture, precision animal science, and sustainable agricultural production.

University Scientists in El Salvador Research to Protect Biodiversity

The Cerrón Grande reservoir is the largest water body in El Salvador and is home to over fifteen species of fish and a wide variety of submerged and floating flora. Due to its international importance in conserving biological diversity, this wetland received the����(short for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat) designation in 2005.��

Although the reservoir was constructed between 1973 and 1976 to produce electricity, the natural wealth found in its 135 km2 provides water and food for the sustenance of local communities, allowing the commercialization of products derived from artisanal fishing, shell-fishing, and hunting. This is particularly important in 2022, the��.

Promoting Children’s Interest in Science: The Children’s University Project

“At a time of rampant misinformation, climate denial, and attacks on human rights, we need education systems that distinguish fact from conspiracy, instill respect for science, and celebrate humanity in all its diversity,” said the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on 19 September 2022, during the opening of the Transforming Education Summit. The role of institutions of higher education in instilling that respect for science cannot be underestimated.

Energy Diplomacy and the UN: Data-Intensive Research from Brazilian Universities

A group of Brazilian researchers is turning to large-scale data to answer critical questions on global affairs, including at the multilateral level. These initiatives are intended to highlight the utility of such tools to a wide range of stakeholders��while promoting the critical work conducted in the institutions of higher education that are part of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative.

The first product, Energy Treaties Matrix �ǰ���, is a web platform for registering and monitoring international agreements related to energy. “It is a system that provides specialized resources, versatile solutions, and diversified analysis of energy agreements between countries and transnational organizations,” explained Henry Iure Paiva, Professor, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Energy Security at the .

Millennium Fellowship Class of 2022: Young Leaders Making the SDGs a RealityPrinciples Reality

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) are proud to present the Class of 2022, an ambitious program to help make the Sustainable Development Goals and UNAI principles a reality. The Class of 2022 Millennium Fellows have been selected among a record-breaking 31,397 applicants from over 2,417 campuses across 140 nations.������

Millennium Fellows are university undergraduates selected based on their leadership on sustainable development-related projects that advance the SDGs in their communities.�� As Millennium Fellows, they will participate in a semester-long leadership development program to improve their student organizing, partnership building and community impact skills.����

Fostering Experiential Education: Lehigh University Partners with ILO

For over a decade,��, a member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in the United States, has collaborated with the����to create a series of experiential education opportunities for its students, faculty, and staff. However, due to the challenging effects of the ongoing��COVID-19 pandemic, there was a significant shift in how such opportunities can take place.��

University Combats Xenophobia in South Africa

Imani Khumalo, a recent graduate of a university in Johannesburg, South Africa, still remembers the shock she felt during a Philosophy class in her second year.

Students were asked by the lecturer to give their opinion on whether the immigration law in South Africa should be more stringent. Imani felt her heart quiver as one of her classmates spoke up: “Laws should be stricter. All foreigners come here illegally to steal our jobs.” Imani, who asked a pseudonym to be used for personal reasons, couldn’t speak up against him. “I was afraid that people were going to gang up on me if I did.”

Saudi Students Lead Initiative to Counter Hate Speech

When launching the��United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech��in June 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres said that hate speech “is in itself an attack on tolerance, inclusion, diversity, and the very essence of our human rights norms and principles. More broadly, it undermines social cohesion, erodes shared values, and can lay the foundation for violence, setting back the cause of peace, stability, sustainable development, and the fulfillment of human rights for all.”

Academia Helps Farmers Balance Production and Conservation

According to the World Bank, more than 1.3 billion people globally rely on small scale livestock production for their livelihoods and nutrition. In Botswana, a landlocked country in southern Africa where cattle production comprises 80 per cent of agricultural gross domestic product, foot and mouth disease (FMD) has negatively impacted the livestock and wildlife sectors since the late 1950s, when beef exports were expanded in the days of colonial rule.

Foot and mouth disease is a viral disease that affects cattle, goats and other cloven-hoofed animals. The virus does does not normally infect people, but in animals it can cause blisters on the gums, tongue and feet that may eventually lead to lameness and an inability to eat, and a loss of meat and milk production.��

International Youth Day: Its Origins and the Promise of Youth Leadership

This article, in line with the International Youth Day on 12 August, was written by�� (@samvaghar), Co-Founder and Executive Director of Millennium Campus Network (MCN).�� MCN and the United Nations Academic Impact partner to present the annually for university undergraduates advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.

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University of Oxford Brings Cutting-Edge Research to the Front-Line of Conflict Resolution

“Universities are places that nurture incubation, exchange, innovation, and interdisciplinary analysis, setting the pathway to change,” said Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations in a video message in April this year. “Universities are at the intersection of knowledge and action,” she added. Certainly, the significant contribution that has been made by institutions of higher education worldwide and their research, cannot be underestimated.��

University of Aberdeen Studies Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Diets

The food we eat affects our health, and that of our planet. Food insecurity, poor nutrition and climate change are some of the global major challenges. Malnutrition for instance, which includes micronutrient deficiencies and obesity, has a devastating impact on health. According to published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, over 800 million people went hungry in 2020.

Enhancing SDGs-Related Teaching: Irish University Offers Open-Source Toolkit

Universities and colleges are critical components for implementing the��, as indicated in the agenda itself. Their prominent role is even crucial as the achievement of its Goals has been severely impacted by the��COVID-19 pandemic��and other global as well as regional crises. Such circumstances have created a wide range of challenges, affecting in particular developing and vulnerable countries.