📢📢Only a few days left to apply for this important conference on the future of #SDGs & of global sustainability!
Come & present your research or transformative ideas & join our discussions and drafting of our collaborative Conference Statement for the UN Summit of the Future!

📢Now fully published article -- & open access:

'The UN Regional Commissions as Orchestrators for the Sustainable Development Goals' #SDGs #UN
(Melanie van Driel; Rakhyun E. Kim; Marjanneke Vijge & yours truly)

Fully open access in GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, download here: brill.com/view/journals/…

🎓Looking for an  innovative master's program dedicated to #sustainability ?Check the #CHARMEU Master's in Global Challenges for Sustainability.
🌏integrated mobility
💡transdisciplinary 
🚀challenge-based 

🗓️Applications will open March 4 to 20
👉 bit.ly/3SxAwLK

⭐ During their 3rd semester, our #students collaborate w/ external stakeholders to take on real life #sustainability challenges 🤝

🌍 Find out more about our student's experience going to South Africa and University of Pretoria last year 👇

#europeanuniversities #highereducation #erasmusplus

Join us for the CHARM EU Master’s Grand Finale event, where 13 student groups will unveil their transdisciplinary, challenge-based projects and innovative societal products. Don't miss out! Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development Dr. Julia Tschersich Marjanneke Vijge

Researchers, an NGO & local residents together worked on solutions to a lack of clean drinking water, food & energy in Moyaneng, South Africa🌱🔍

Read about this unique #transdisciplinary collaboration with direct impact on local communities👇

Marjanneke Vijge
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V Debiais-Sainton European Commission 🤝Session on #EuropeanUniversities and #ServiceToSociety ! Discussing challenges & best practices of working with societal, industrial & governmental partners:

🟢Ludovic THILLY EC2U Alliance of European Universities
🟢Fidel Echevarría SEA-EU
🟢Balázs Vince Nagy EELISA European University Alliance
🟢Marjanneke Vijge CHARM-EU

Our own Marjanneke Vijge from Utrecht University takes us through CHARM-EU's Capstone and how our Masters students collaborate with external partners to address with global challenges

#ChallengeBasedLearning #Sustainability

🚀Exciting news from ED-AFFICHE!
We joined a pivotal meeting with DG EAC European Commission to discuss the future of the #EuropeanDegree label.

🎓Inspiring talks on added value, overcoming obstacles, quality assurance & criteria refinement. 

Full article 👉mtr.cool/tzillxmeuy

Honored to have presented CHARM-EU's collaboration with South Africa to the Dutch Minister of Education Robbert Dijkgraaf & his mission. Hybrid interuniversity education across Global North & South and students working with societal stakeholders on sustainability challenges worldwide

Are you looking for a new senior academic position in the field of environmental governance? We’ve got an opening Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development for a Professor in our group - deadline end of October. Get in touch to discuss! uu.nl/en/organisatio…

How have the #SDGs impacted international organizations?

“It seems like the World Bank has been able to impact the SDG policy cycle more than it has been impacted by it,” says Melanie van Driel, lead author of a new study.

Frank Biermann Marjanneke Vijge Rakhyun E. Kim
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Vacancy for Chair of Multilevel Sustainability Policy and Governance. Apply by 13 October!

Many thanks also to our examination committee, Robert Falkner | @robertfalkner.bsky.social, Louise van Schaik, Albert Meijer, Johan Schot, and Peter Driessen, and the wonderful team of co-supervisors Agni Kalfagianni and Marjanneke Vijge !

Congratulations to Doctor Francesco S. Montesano for obtaining his PhD, with his splendid thesis on the impact of the #SDGs ,

“Global Goals for Sustainability Integration:
The Role of Ideas, Norms, and Institutions”

One of the major outcomes of the GlobalGoals Project! @globalgoals_ERC!

🌠 We're back with some more vacancies! From research officer to PhD to professor positions, there's something for almost everyone.

Take a look below and share with your network👇

Interviewed today by Dutch newspaper @Volkskrant on the lack of success of the #SDGs , & on the prospect of this week's #SDGSummit of the #UN .

My conclusion: The #SDGs are failing so far, need more support, & stronger global governance.

URL to newspaper, volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg…

Today we launched the UN 2023 #GSDR - an independent scientific report commissioned by UN member states to evaluate progress on the #SDGs and synthesise solutions and actions to accelerate #Agenda2030 , ahead of the #SDGSummit .

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UN DESA Sustainable Development SEI Research Environmental Change

📣 Next phase of CHARM-EU: programme expansion, appointments to CHARM-EU Utrecht University team

Bert van den Brink has been appointed executive director and Marjanneke Vijge has become academic director at the Utrecht University.

👏Congratulations to both!! 

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3Pt1EKr

Happy to announce that my second PhD research paper was published! It focuses on the impact of the #SDGs on the World Bank, with special attention to the goal on reducing inequalities; t.ly/DOwFP
GlobalGoals_ERC, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Rakhyun E. Kim, Frank Biermann, Marjanneke Vijge