Public-Private Partnerships for SDG Training

This side event at the 2025 UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum will focus on Public-Private Partnerships that are needed to curate and use SDG knowledge as a Global Public Good.

On the supply of knowledge, we will discuss the outcome document of the 3^rd World OER Congress, the Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) on digital public goods and emerging technologies for equitable and inclusive access to knowledge.

On the use of knowledge, we will discuss the UNIDO, UNITAR and SDSN’s Capabilities for the Future Hub, a space for government agencies, private sector and educational and training institutions to create the highest joint returns to prosperity, society and environment for those who participate in inclusive and sustainable Global Value Chains.

We will also look at examples related to Insurance and the SDGs, the BuildSkills Academy and degree programs that can contribute to an inclusive and sustainable knowledge commons.

Event Details

Organizers: University College Dublin and Government of Ireland SDG Champion

Partners: UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), UAE, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF), UNESCO, UNITAR, UNIDO, UN Major Group for Children and Youth, and BuildSkills Academy

Date: 5 February 2025

Time: 8:00-9:15am ET

Venue: Zoom

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Proposed Agenda

Opening

Speakers

Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER)

- Zeynep Varoglu, Programme Specialist, UNESCO

Capabilities 4 the Future Hub in Multilateral Industrial Policy

- Elena Proden, Senior Specialist, Strategic Implementation of the 2030 Agenda Unit, UNITAR

(Re) Insurance Partnerships and the SDGs

- Lorcán Hall, Senior Advisor, SDG Academy, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
- Antony Ireland, Founder, Better Insurance Network

Built environment, green and digital skills