Project description

Sustainable Solutions is a University of Pennsylvania student initiative to educate Philadelphia students (from high school to university) about the UN�s Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and invite them to tackle one or more of the SDGs through project-based solutions. Under the theme of Localizing the SDGs, it has crafted an orientation program and ideas competition that invites student teams to pitch a Philadelphia based SDG project with funding for the winners for further development.

Project aims

Project outcome

This project has and will continue to educate students and the wider community about the SDGs and offer examples on how to localize the implementation of those most relevant to the city. It will stimulate specific projects through its ideas competition whose winners will receive financing to move from ideas to real projects.