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Beyond Boundaries: Realising the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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About the Conference
From 19 - 29 October 2020, UCL Grand Challenges (Office for the Vice-Provost Research) and the Global Engagement Office (Office for the Vice-Provost International) hosted a two-week virtual conference exploring the role of universities in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The conference aimed to understand universities’ approaches to the SDGs and how we can move forward to develop cross-disciplinary and beyond-boundary research and activities with our partners to address the goals.
Building upon much work already taking place across UCL and in universities, industry and the arts across the world, this conference sought to facilitate knowledge and best practice exchange, as well as spur cross-disciplinary and beyond boundary collaborations to address the SDGs.
Keynote speakers, panellists, and participants from across the globe shared perspectives, ideas, and innovative approaches to the Global Goals throughout the conference. By bringing together leading experts from across UCL and beyond, Beyond Boundaries enabled participants to share work, identify gaps in collective understanding, explore solutions and consider appropriate measures to address, and further, the SDGs. Throughout, discussions explored how we can move forward on developing cross-disciplinary and cross-boundary impacts-through research, global engagement, partnerships, teaching and community activities – that support the achievement of international goals and address global challenges.
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