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Knowledge to Action Session

Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability

Sustainable Collaboration: Meeting the SDGs Through Community Partnerships

Friday, March 21, 2025
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM US EST
Location: Pine, Mezzanine level
Cultural immersion, collaboration, and community-based learning help to define study abroad as a high impact practice that benefits the students who engage in it. Examine a partnership between a provider, a university, and a rural cooperative, and how it addresses UNSDGs while driving economic growth, empowering rural communities, and fostering immersive learning experiences for students. Takeaway tools to model similar partnerships that benefit your students and partner communities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Gain a blueprint for establishing and maintaining sustainable community partnerships.
  • Develop an understanding for how to tailor a similar collaborative model to meet the unique needs of their own student groups.
  • Assess the social, economic, and educational impacts of such partnerships.