Hong Kong SAR

NATIONAL NETWORK

SDSN HONG KONG

 NATIONAL NETWORK

SDSN HONG KONG SAR

SDSN Hong Kong mobilizes its members and leverages their strengths to help realize the SDGs through:  

Education

Primary and Secondary Education – advocating digital creativity, design thinking approach, resilience and adaptation to adversity.


Tertiary Education – integrating the SDGs in curriculum development for general, undergraduate and postgraduate studies; curating experiential and social engagement SDG opportunities. 


Special Education – empowering and supporting children and youth with disabilities or special educational needs through tailor-made programs that involve physical exercise, sensational activities and social networking.


Public Education – promoting and raising awareness of the SDGs through guided tours and exhibitions of the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, a community funfair, outreach and engagement programs, school programs in collaboration with NGOs, and mass media and social media campaigns.





Awareness and Engagement

Engaging the public and raising awareness of sustainable development through innovative and impactful projects. 


Launching a knowledge exchange platform to share good practices and mobilize scientific and technological expertise for sustainable development among universities and between universities and the private sector.


Building sector capacity through regular workshops and knowledge sharing sessions. 


Enhancing sector awareness and stakeholders’ engagement by convening dialogues and fostering cross-sector collaboration to create systemic social change and develop transformational solutions.


Solutions

SDG3: Building Hong Kong into an age-friendly city to help extend the healthy and active life years of the elderly The Jockey Club Age-Friendly City Project.


SDG4: Challenging secondary school students to act and bring real changes to the community CUHK Sustainability and Social Inclusion Program for School Students: Design Thinking Summer 2021.


SDG12: Cultivating responsible consumer activism in eight government-funded universities in Hong Kong – Jockey Club Sustainable Campus Consumer Program/


SDG13: Advocating climate action through community engagement Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.


SDG17: Pilot Project Turned Public Policy: The HKSAR Government and HKJCCT joined local and overseas academia to bring computational thinking education to primary schools – CoolThink@JC.




Team

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Latest News

By SDSN China Hub and SDSN Hong Kong SAR 25 Mar, 2024
On March 15, 2024, the 3rd edition of the Universities for Goal 13 Award (UG13) Greater China Finals was held. This event was co-organized by the host institutions of SDSN China Hub and SDSN Hong Kong SAR, the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SDG Institute) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) respectively. Sponsored by Pernod Ricard China, this event took place in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.
By SDSN KL Secretariat 20 Dec, 2023
It has been one year since the official launch of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s Asia Headquarters (UN-SDSN Asia) in Sunway City Kuala Lumpur on 17 November 2022. It has been an exhilarating year of mobilization of like-minded partners across the Asia-Pacific, including universities, research institutions, NGOs, government agencies, and multilateral organizations, to accelerate progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. Our flagship programs have become well-known in the seminar rooms of universities and the corridors of power in several Asian countries, and we look forward to expanding our work going forward.
By Networks Team 13 Dec, 2023
Siemens Gamesa and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network are launching the 3rd edition of "Universities for Goal 13", after two successful editions of this competition. From January to September 2024, students from six universities will develop their own solutions to address one of the greatest global challenges of this century, climate change.
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