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Universities Partnership wins award for sustainability project


A project mapping the extent to which local universities have advanced global sustainability aims has won a United Nations (UN) University award.

As part of work carried out by the Universities Partnership – formed between ºÚÁÏÍø Leicester (ºÚÁÏÍø), Loughborough University and the University of Leicester – the study aimed to examine the real-world impact of civic activity carried out by the institutions.

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In particular, the project looked at work which went some way to advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global targets which address issues like poverty, equality and renewable energy.

As a result, the programme won an award from the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, which hosts the global network of Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) in Education f