What is the SDGs
Promotion Office?
ICU's founding principle is to nurture people who can contribute to the building of peace based on a global understanding of the situation, and efforts to achieve the SDGs have already been practiced in various ways in liberal arts education. In April 2021, SDGs Promotion Office was established in order to further interconnect these individual activities and to firmly and integrally position them as university initiatives within the liberal arts. Currently, faculty, staff, and students work together to consolidate and disseminate activities related to the SDGs within ICU, make and implement proposals related to the promotion of the SDGs, and support student-led activities.
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Our Mission
SDGs Promotion Office is responsible for implementing impactful changes in education, research, and social development with regard to items related to the realization of the SDGs by 2030; and promoting initiatives in collaboration not only with the students, faculty, and staff who make up the university, but also with alumni, local communities, and partner organizations in Japan and overseas. Moreover, our mission is to develop human resources who are aware of the interconnectedness of the 17 goals of the SDGs and their connection to themselves, and who can take these goals critically, evaluate them individually, and act on them.
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The role of student members
In order to promote the SDGs, student members find a community to work together and create an environment where students can learn actively through experiences. Student members are required to take initiative in their learning and be able to recognize issues in the community, as well as to take action to solve problems by involving others.