SDG Detail

Sustainability Challenge

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Project description

The Sustainability Challenge (SC) is a renowned inter- and transdisciplinary university course jointly offered by the 4 largest universities of Vienna � University of Economics and Business, Technical University, University of Natural Resources and Life Science and University of Vienna � and coordinated by RCE Vienna. Since 2016, the SC is also taking on and supporting sustainability-driven start-up ideas, such as an online marketplace for sustainable products and services, establishing transparent criteria based on the SDGs framework.

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Location Austria

Organization University of Economics and Business; Vienna

Project aims

The SC interlinks theoretical content with real-life experiences and implementation, enabling learners/ students of different backgrounds to become agents of change in their community and create local impact, thus contributing to the realization of SDGs.

Project outcome

1) Reach students of all fields, and enable them to become change makers within their local community through means of transformative teaching and learning tools. So far, over 600 students have participated in the program. 2) Reach companies of all sectors, who act as service-learning partners for the interdisciplinary student teams, thus finding means to take part in achieving the SDGs as a company. So far, over 60 companies have acted as service-learning partners, realizing SDG-related projects together with interdisciplinary student teams. 3) Promoting the SDGs in universitary curriculums in Vienna: the Sustainability Challenge is part of the curriculum of all the participating four universities, where students of any field get awarded credits for participating.