SDGs Promotion by Education

GIGAKU SDG Institute

GIGAKU SDG Institute is an educational program that covers the university's faculty-graduate university integrated education system (corresponding to the SDG Engineer Course), the graduate social student special course (established as a SDG Professional Course in FY2019), and the technical science and innovation major (corresponding to the GIGAKU Innovation Course). It incorporates the concept of emphasizing SDGs, which is a shared goal of the global community that the next generation of engineers should acquire.

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UNESCO Chair / UNITWIN

• Our students began a survey of Itoigawa UNESCO Global Geopark
• The 8th Panel on GIGAKU Education was held
• A Brainstorming Session with Members of the Youth Committee of Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and Student SDGs Promoters
• INNOVATING TOGETHER: The Global Forum on Industry-UNAI Hub University Collaboration (IUCG Forum 2023) was held
• Nagaoka University of Technology has been selected as one of the "25 Best Practices" for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education institutions
• UNITWIN Network Kick-off Meeting held
• Attended the 2022 ACUNS Annual Meeting
• The 6th Panel on GIGAKU Education was held
• NUT received The Award for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for the ninth consecutive year in 2021
• UEA et al. received the Japanese Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Education Award
• NUT participated in UNAI SDG Hub Webinar Meeting
• The 4th Panel on GIGAKU Education was held
• UNESCO Chair Kick-off Meeting was held
• NUT’s “GIGAKU SDG Institute” was certified as UNESCO Chairs Programme

Other Efforts of SDGs Promotion by Education

• Holding of the 6th Term Student SDGs Promoter Appointment Ceremony and Promoter Meeting
• Holding of the 5th Term Student SDGs Promoter Appointment Ceremony and Promoter Meeting
• Office for SDGs Promotion of Nagaoka University of Technology and others participated in the “SDGs Seminar for 2023 Winter” hosted by the School of Engineering, Okayama University, giving lectures and conducting demonstrative experiments
• Student SDGs Promoter Organized a Seminar on “Palestine in Focus”
• Nagaoka University of Technology Held an Online “SDG Round-table Talk for Students”
• Trial event “Extensive Reading and Listening x SDGs Challenge” was held
• Lecture on SDGs Held at Nagaoka School for the Deaf
• International students from Nagaoka University of Technology and high school students from Nagaoka City exchange opinions on SDGs
• Online student exchange held with De Montfort University, a UNAI SDG Hub University
• NUT organized an event “Let’s talk in English with other children!” and supported online international exchange
• NUT faculty members gave an online lecture on SDGs to Gosen High School
• NUT faculty members gave a lecture on SDGs at Shibata Commercial Senior High School
• NUT faculty members and students visited Suyoshi Elementary School to teach a class aimed at improving community resilience
• NUT faculty members gave a lecture on the SDGs at Ojiya High School
• The student SDGs Promoters organized a CPR seminar in English
• NUT’s “SDGs x Programming Education” Exemplary Class was featured on the United Nations website
• Exemplary class “SDGs x Programming education” was implemented
• Students from Nagaoka Junior High School visited to study SDGs
• NUT awarded “Science Agora Award” at Science Agora 2017, hosted by Japan Science and Technology Agency