SDG Summer School
In September 2015, world leaders committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. Over the next 15 years, governments will strive to achieve goals such as ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and tackling climate change. To achieve these goals, we need to enable today’s youth to play an active and meaningful role in tackling the SDGs. The motivation of the SDG Summer School is for teams of University students, in close collaboration with UN organisations, to conceive ways to use open data, crowdsourcing technologies, and low-cost open source solutions to tackle sustainable development in ways that even schoolchildren can participate in, and develop prototypes suitable for deployment.
SDG Summer School 2022 (coming soon…)
More info and application on the Geneva Summer Schools website
Several ways to join
The SDG Summer School targets high-school (> 16 years old), undergraduate (Bachelor) and Master students coming from universities worldwide. Teams are interdisciplinary, so we welcome students from all fields of study, who share a passion for making the world a more sustainable place.
Challenge-based learning with the UN
The SDG Summer School is all about team-based problem solving and hands-on prototype development, going from a conception phase to producing practical demos. The overarching goal is to impact school-based science classes, by enabling tomorrow’s innovators to participate actively in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges, today. Mentors from UN organisations in Geneva provide exciting challenges and extensive field experience. This focus is inspired by Jean Piaget, father of the field of child developmental psychology. Piaget, who worked at University of Geneva for 50 years, encouraged several generations of educators to embrace a challenge-based mode of learning, which is at the heart of the crowdsourced creativity that this programme seeks to foster.
Previous editions
The SDG Summer School is constantly evolving. You can consult the pages dedicated to previous editions here: