News

After six years hosting SDSN Canada, the University of Waterloo will transition hosting duties to the University of Calgary, effective July 1, 2024.

We are proud to have been the inaugural host and beyond proud of everything SDSN Canada has been able to accomplish. We believe giving other Canadian institutions the opportunity to lead SDSN Canada will strengthen the network and support the ethos of the SDGs to have distributed and diversified leadership structures.

That's a wrap for Together|Ensemble 2024! This was the sixth year of the conference, bringing together Canadians from all sectors to track the SDGs in Canada. This year marked the first time the conference was held in-person, hosted at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. The conference brought together 175 delegates in person, and 600 delegates online to explore the theme of “Innovation for the SDGs”, with a focus on innovations in Sustainable Finance, Future Cities, and AI for Eco-Innovation.

SDSN Canada's spring newsletter, featuring:

• Together|Ensemble Conference 2024
• SDG Week Canada 2024 Highlights
• Our webinar on Indigenous Partnerships for the SDGs
• The launch of our new Youth Leadership Certificate for the SDGs  
• The launch of our new Guide for Post-Secondary Reporting on the SDGs

Together|Ensemble 2024 will take place in-person at the University of Waterloo on May 28th and 29th, 2024. Join us as we explore innovations in Sustainable Finance, Future Cities, and AI & Emerging Tech for Eco-Innovation.

SDG Week Canada took place from March 4-8, 2024 featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.

Our second webinar on Reporting on the SDGs for Universities and Colleges in Canada. The webinar featured three speakers whose institutions were featured as case studies in our recent guide on reporting on the SDGs released in the fall of 2023.

A great conversation on Indigenous Partnerships for the SDGs across Turtle Island. Panelists discussed their diverse experience developing partnerships along the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of the SDGs, the approaches that have worked well and challenges to be aware of.

We’re pleased to launch the Youth Leadership Certificate for the SDGs, a new online program tosupport university and college students across Canada to develop the expertise and skills to take action on the Sustainable Development Goals.

We're pleased to launch a new guide for Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals for Canada's Universities and Colleges. The guide emphasizes a “practical approach”, with concrete steps and many case studies to share tangible examples to make it a useful resource for institutions working on their own SDGs reporting.

We’re pleased to say that well over 1,000 people participated online and in-person at Together|Ensemble 2023. All conference session recordings are now available to view, including all side events.