On May 24, 2018, with the approval the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Hongbo, the former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was officially appointed as Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University and Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University (TUSDG). The appointment ceremony w...

On the afternoon of March 21, 2018, "Meet SDGs" High-End Forum No.2 was successfully held in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University.  The Forum was hosted by SPPM and co-organized by the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) and HZ Books.Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of ...

On 7th-8th February 2018, the inaugural Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development (GEEF-SD) was successfully held in Seoul, Republic of Korea. This forum is co-hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment (IGEE) and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. Setting “putting People and Planet at the Center” as its main theme, the Forum served as a plat...

Getting started with the SDGs in universitiesis a guide to help universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific to accelerate their contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Guide highlights the important role universities have in implementing the SDGs through their teaching, research, operations and leadership,...

On the morning of 13 December 2017, the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University(Tsinghua SDG Institute) held a regular work conference with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Patrick Haverman, UNDP Country Deputy Director in China; Li Ming, Project Manager of UNDP China; Ge Cheng, Assistant to the Deputy Director of UNDP China; Xue Lan, Professor of School...

​December 5, 2017On the morning of November 29, 2017, the "Meet SDGs" High-End Forum, hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University (TUSDG), was successfully held in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (SPPM).The Forum has invited Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International and former P...

In January 2017, President of China Xi Jinping and President of the Swiss Confederation Doris Leuthard, jointly witnessed the signing of the memorandum between Tsinghua University and University of Geneva on a comprehensive education program for the SDGs. The signing of the memorandum marks the comprehensive cooperation between the two universities, including joint student education, high-level...

In response to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University established the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, the first interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, cross-departmental and multidisciplinary research institute on SDGs in China, to strengthen scientific research, talent training, international cooperation and exchange in the field of Sustainable...

​In response to the global call of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in furtherance of the Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Development and the related cooperation agreement signed by Tsinghua University and the University of Geneva, the two universities have recently established their respective institutes for sustainable development. Earlier this year,...