Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
The vision of the Sustainable Development Goals Affinity Group is to advance the awareness and adoption of the SDGs as integral to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) learning, through knowledge exchange, bridging of experiences and the creation of an engaged community of practice encompassing a diversity of views while working to embed SDG principles through our organization’s processes and practices to ensure no one is left behind.
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Co-Lead: Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), Canada
The vision of the Sustainable Development Goals Affinity Group is to advance the awareness and adoption of the SDGs as integral to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) learning, through knowledge exchange, bridging of experiences and the creation of an engaged community of practice encompassing a diversity of views while working to embed SDG principles through our organization’s processes and practices to ensure no one is left behind.
Collaborator: UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET, Germany
Co-Lead: Technical and Further Education New South Wales (TAFE NSW), Australia
TAFE NSW is the government public provider of vocational education and training in New South Wales, Australia. Dating back to the 1830s, today TAFE NSW is one of the largest training providers in the world and each year, more than 500,000 students enroll into nationally recognized courses and training. TAFE NSW offers hundreds of courses with qualifications from certificates to Diploma, Advanced Diploma and Degree levels while the online arm, TAFE Digital, is the largest online education provider in Australia, currently servicing over 150,000 learners.
Co-Lead: Instituto Nacional de Capacitación Profesional (INACAP), Chile
INACAP is a higher education institution which offers 2-year vocational and 4-year professional programs. Since 1966 INACAP has opened 28 campuses in 20 of the most important cities of Chile,
currently educating over 100,000 undergraduate students. The curriculum offered at each campus is
designed to prepare highly trained technicians and professionals to work in various industries. INACAP has contributed to the socioeconomic and sustainable development of Chile through the impact of its multi-campus infrastructure.
ENAC Technical Formation Center, is a Technical Higher Education Institution in Chile with 62 years of history, training students with its own identity and with a strong awareness of social problems, professional and human needs of women and men, contributing to human development to support the progress of the country and its society. Today, ENAC counts 28 study programs and an enrollment of almost 9,000 students. The institutional focus towards social issues as well as its innovation orientation provides a comprehensive quality training for students, well recognized at a national level. Sustainability is part of ENAC identity. Many initiatives have been developed and promoted to support the implementation and achievement of the SDGs. For instance, ENAC has committed to become a carbon neutral institution by 2050.
Bridgend College is a further education college, founded in 1923 in Wales, United Kingdom which has grown to become a large educational organisation, one of the largest providers of apprenticeship programmes and a major employer in the area. An extensive range of courses are offered across a large number of vocational areas ranging from General Certificates of Secondary Education, Welsh Baccalaureate to Honours Degrees as well as shorter options through our Community College. As the first college in the UK to declare a climate and nature emergency, we contribute strongly to socioeconomic and sustainable development through the impact of a highly robust sustainability strategy, partnerships and collaboration, infrastructure and curriculum development for sustainable futures.