SDGs Arab Universities Initiative

The objectives of SDGsArabUNi include, but are not limited to:

1. A golden opportunity for all Arab universities to join the global conversation on SD and how to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs and enhance your university’s profile internationally.
2. In the post-Covid 19 era of global skills and the knowledge race, SDGsArabUNi will help Arab universities to accomplish their natural and ascribed roles as a strategic agent for national collective efforts to catch-up and be on track to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs.
3. Integrate and reconnect universities with their curriculum in all 17 SDG relevant subjects and place more focus on issues relevant to national developmental needs.
4. Help universities to become more sensitive and responsive to developing graduates who can compete in the global and intensely competitive knowledge/digital economy. Therefore, Arab universities will become more attractive to new students who are very keen to join universities that can help them better understand the global sustainability challenges and how to solve these problems in the future. Several reports argue that youth’s perspectives on their future studies is focusing on SD and Forbes as an example refer to Generation Z as “sustainability generation”.
5. Improve universities' various research activities to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs and provide practical recommendations and actions to help universities transform the way they conduct and use research to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs. Arab universities will also be able to attract more research funding from different organisations across the world who are very keen to fund research projects focusing on issues around the UN’s 17 SDGs.
6. All leading World University Rankings such as QS, Times Higher Education and others, emphasise on the importance of assessing universities across the world critical role in implementing SDGs on campus and helping their countries as whole to achieve the UN SDGs.
7. Selected universities will be included in our SDGs Universities Global/Regional/National Directories 2024 focusing on SDGs, the directories will be officially launched during WASD conference 2024 and complementary copies will be distributed across the world.