VU Amsterdam has joined the United Nation Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) in 2024. The UNSDSN is a nonprofit organization established by the United Nations in 2012 to promote the 17 Sustainable Development Goals on a national and international level. VU Amsterdam, as a UNSDSN member, will play a leadership role in the Netherlands.
SDSN Netherlands, coordinated and hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), aims to accelerate integrated approaches to the interconnected economic, social, and environmental challenges confronting the world. It promotes the values of the United Nations and contributes to building a better world for future generations.
Its key focus areas include raising awareness and engagement on the SDGs and promoting a national dialogue, to develop solutions by strengthening national and global partnerships, uniting intergenerational collaborations among all stakeholders.
SDSN Netherlands aims to build the Worlds Knowledge Network for Sustainable Development.
What does SDSN Netherlands wish to achieve?
SDSN Netherlands mobilizes universities, research centres, civil society organizations, business and other knowledge centres to create and implement transformative solutions to achieve the Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement in Netherlands and beyond.
SDSN Netherlands delivers value to its members and partners around the following 3 objectives:
- Shape multi-stakeholder dialogue:
Accelerate the continuous exchange of ideas and experiences, and create thinking spaces for the scientific community, government, business and civil society in order to foster systemic solutions, build commitment and mobilize action. - Foster transformative solutions:
Harness scientific and trans-disciplinary knowledge to generate new evidence-based solutions, integrated policies and systemic change, including through joint learning journeys. - Advice decision-makers:
Offer evidence-based advice to decision-makers in politics, business and society to fill policy gaps and motivate normative change through innovative processes around the science-business-policy interface.
