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Bedrich Moldan Charles University Environment Center

Universities and the Millennium Development Goals: Down from the Ivory Tower Education for Sustainable Future Prague, September 10, 2003. Bedrich Moldan Charles University Environment Center. Millennium Development Goals. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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Bedrich Moldan Charles University Environment Center

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  1. Universities and the Millennium Development Goals: Down from the Ivory TowerEducation for Sustainable FuturePrague, September 10, 2003 Bedrich Moldan Charles University Environment Center

  2. Millennium Development Goals • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality and empower women • Reduce child mortality • Improve maternal health • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop a global partnership for development

  3. Goal 1: Poverty and Hunger (1) Targets: • Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day • Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

  4. Goal 1: Poverty and Hunger (2) Source: UNDP 2003

  5. Goal 1: Poverty and Hunger (3) Source: UNDP 2003

  6. Challenges for Universities I: Poverty and Hunger • Oriented research • Definitions and causes of poverty • Economic, social and environmental context • Ways of combating hunger

  7. Goal 2: Education (1) Targets: • Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

  8. Goal 2: Education (2) Source: UNDP 2003

  9. Goal 2: Education (3) Source: UNDP 2003

  10. Challenges for Universities II: Education • Teacher education • Innovative methods (formal, non-formal, informal education) • New technologies (including ICTs)

  11. Goal 3: Gender Equality (1) Targets: • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015

  12. Goal 3: Gender Equality (2) Source: UNDP 2003

  13. Challenges for Universities III: Gender Equality • Analysing and addressing root causes • Gender studies • Promoting women (science, university positions)

  14. Goal 4, 5, 6: Human Health (1) Targets: • Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality ratio • Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio • Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS • Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

  15. Goal 4, 5, 6: Human Health (2) Source: UNDP 2003

  16. Goal 4, 5, 6: Human Health (3) Source: UNDP 2003

  17. Challenges for Universities IV: Human Health • Shifting research priorities • Addressing emerging issues

  18. Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability (1) Targets: • Integrate the principle of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources • Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water • Have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

  19. Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability (2) Source: UNDP 2003

  20. Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability (3) Source: UNDP 2003

  21. Challenges for Universities V: Environmental Sustainability • More attention to urgent issues like WEHAB (water, energy, health, agriculture, biodiversity) • Urban issues

  22. Goal 8: Global Partnership (1) Targets: • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system • Address the special needs of the least developed countries (e.g. debts problems) • Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states

  23. Goal 8: Global Partnership (2) Targets: • In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth • In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries • In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially ICTs

  24. Goal 8: Global Partnership (3) Source: UNDP 2003

  25. Challenges for Universities VI: Global Partnership • Partnership in education and science in addition to the stated targets like trade, finance and new technologies • Focus on the least developed countries

  26. Challenges for Universities VII: General Issues • Policy-relevant knowledge (e.g. indicators) • Place-based science • Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity • New contents of traditional disciplines

  27. Conclusion Millennium Development Goals represent a novel approach, a truly new “Global Deal“, in particular by setting quantitative targets for the development at the global level. The most important institutions, including intergovern-mental organizations and transnational corpo-rations, are taking challenges of the MDG very seriously. Universities should be in the fore-front of this world-wide effort.

  28. Thank you for your attention

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