The SDSN mobilizes the world's academic and research institutes and leverages their strengths to help realize the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
The SDSN pursues its mission by working with member institutions in countries around the world, organized into networks at the national and regional level. Each network focuses on distinct projects and priorities in line with their local contexts and challenges.
Each year, numerous innovative solutions are imagined and brought to fruition by the networks as well as many opportunities for all to be a part of the next groundbreaking solution. Below are some of the solutions initiatives our national and regional networks are undertaking.
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Amazon Innovative Solutions Forum
Regional forum organized to select the finalist solutions for SDSN's Global Solutions Forum.
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Amazon Sustainable Development Solution Platform (SDSN-A Platform)
The SDSN-A Platform is an open access, free, online, georeferenced and trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) platform. It aims to have a multiplier effect in order to disseminate solutions for sustainable development in the Amazon region carried out by SDSN-Amazonia members and network partners. The Platform allows to search for solutions by keywords, location and country.
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Asia-Pacific Solutions Forum
On November 2nd, 2023, SDSN hosted its inaugural Asia-Pacific Solutions Forum (APSF), at the Sunway Resort Hotel in Sunway City, Malaysia. To an audience of 140 attendees, the APSF showcased six research-backed, innovative, replicable, and scalable solutions identified among the members and local business partners of SDSN across the Asia-Pacific.
By SDSN Global
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Banco de Proyectos
The Bank of Projects is a unique initiative in Latin America. This platform aims to accelerate the 2030 Agenda in Mexico by providing tools to enhance projects and support leaders to connect their initiatives with technical, in-kind and financial support. The initiatives are divided into four themes: Sustainable Communities and Social Wellbeing; Environment, Agriculture and Food; Circular Economy and Sustainable Technologies; and Education for Sustainability.
By SDSN Mexico
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Call for solutions initiatives in Switzerland
SDSN Switzerland organizes a call for solution initiatives among their members on an annual basis. A number of solution initiatives are funded every year, especially those that bring together several members working together and have a clear added-value for members and partners.
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Global competition: Universities for Goal 13
Annual global competition, organized by SDSN, that promotes university talent in the fight against climate change through disruptive solutions. The aim of the contest is to identify the most innovative and transformative solutions to SDG13 emerging from SDSN member universities. The winning solution was awarded with USD 10,000 for further development.
By SDSN Global
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Home Grown Solutions Forum in the Great Lakes
The SDSN Great Lakes organized a first Home Grown Solutions Forum in 2020. Since then it has been encouraging its members to get engaged in developing Home Grown Solutions (HGSs) to address national and regional sustainable development challenges. HGSs are defined as trademark initiatives developed based on local opportunities, cultural values and history to fast track their development. Their focus has been on shared values, knowledge, innovations and ideas to tackle development challenges affecting the region.
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National Solutions Forum in Bolivia
SDSN Bolivia has organized an open call for solutions - for members and non members- focused on tourism. The event aims to promote new technologies, startups, methods, tools, business models, institutional systems, products, services, education models, or a combination of these that promote tourism as an engine of sustainable development with gender equality in Bolivia.
By SDSN Bolivia
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National Solutions Forum in Malaysia
SDSN Malaysia organized a national forum to showcase the most impactful solutions to SDGs-related challenges locally. Each of the finalists received grant funding, courtesy of Sunway Group and Sunway University (host institution of the network). The Best Solution prize received a grant of RM10,000.
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Solutions Initiatives Forum in Northern Europe
Solutions Initiative Forum (SIF) is an action-oriented event where business, policymakers, civil society and academia come together to promote sustainable solutions. Each SIF tackles a challenge connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Furthermore, a Solutions Report is launched at each SIF where the challenge is described and SDG impact assessments of 20 solutions are presented.
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Transformative Solutions for Achieving Gender Equality
Since 2019, SDSN has been showcasing some of the most transformative and innovative solutions emerging from the network annually under the Global Solutions Forum (GSF) flagship initiative. This global initiative fostered in collaboration with GIZ (the German Agency of Cooperation), aimed to bring together experts from around the world to present how they were implementing local solutions that were advancing the SDGs in their context. The four editions of the GSF successfully elevated cutting-edge transformations for the SDGs in front of an international audience and strengthened the connection between local implementers from all around the world. All editions featured lightning talks packed with challenges and discoveries from within the global SDSN network and brought together high-level experts from science, academia, and policy spheres. Following up on this precedent, GIZ and BMZ are supporting this new solutions forum, focused on gender initiatives, that will be hosted as a special session within the ICSD 2023. For this webinar, SDSN Secretariat has selected four implemented solutions from our networks in Sahel, South Africa, Mali and Bolivia, and is inviting a Ukraine member from SDSN Black Sea.
By SDSN Global