On the afternoon of June 11th, the lecture “Sustainable Hospital of the Future - Focusing on Korean Hospital Cases” was successfully held in Room 302 of the School of Public Policy, Tsinghua University (SPPM) Lecture by Kim Ju HanProf. Kim Ju Han firstly introduced the Health Avatars project of the Office of Information Medicine of Seoul National University of Medical Science and pointed out...

On the evening of June 10, 2018, Xue Lan, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Administration and Management, member of the National Invited Committee for Strategic Consultation and Comprehensive Review, member of the State Council's Expert Group on Emergency Management, senior professor of Liberal Arts at Tsinghua University, Dean of School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua Universit...

On 24 May 2018, with the approval of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Hongbo, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was formally appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University and Co-Director of the TUSDG. The appointment ceremony was held at the SPPM of Tsinghua University, where Professor Yang Bin, Vice ...

On the afternoon of 27 March 2018, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Geosciences at Columbia University, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General, and Chairman of the International Academic Committee of the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG), visited and held a working meeting with TUSDG faculty ...

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 7-8 February 2018, the Global Engagement and Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development was successfully held in Seoul, South Korea. The Forum was co-hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment (IGEE) and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. With the theme of ‘People and Planet at the Centre’, the Forum aims to provide a platform for exchange and sharing among al...

The 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held from 23 to 26 January in Davos, Switzerland. The theme of this year's meeting was ‘Building a Common Destiny in a Divided World’, with 70 Heads of State and Government and 45 heads of international organisations attending. Liu He, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Director o...

On 25 January 2018, the Institute for Sustainable Global Development, Tsinghua University (TUSDG) formally appointed Nikhil Seth, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, as an International Advisory Committee Member for a term of three years, and Professor Xue Lan, Director of TUSDG, presented him with a letter of appointment on behalf of Chairman Yang Bin at the World Economic Forum...