INtegration of sustainable deVelOpment goaLs in uniVErsities for better climate change management – INVOLVE

The wider objective:

• Strengthening the role of the Egyptian Universities in the achievement of the environmental Sustainable Development Goals “SDGs” through enhancing their organizational governance capacities, creating current and future SDGs implementers, and upgrading their operational facilities necessary to the implementation of innovative practices for the achievement of the environmental SDGs.

The specific objectives:

1. Embodying the principles of the environmental SDGs through organizational governance and strategic management of the Egyptian universities in order to ensure the alliance of their strategies with the SDGs.


2. Building organizational and internal capacity and ownership to the environmental SDGs through the establishment of the Sustainable Development Center “SDC” in the Egyptian Universities, which will be in charge of enhancing and providing necessary knowledge, skills, and motivation to understand and address the environmental SDGs.


3. Fostering the achievement of the environmental SDGs in the Egyptian Universities through boosting their operational capacities in developing environmentally sustainable campuses.

Work Packages:

• WP 1: Mapping Universities contributions to the SDGs


• WP 2: Organizational Governance and Strategic Management


• WP 3: Building Internal Capacity and Ownership of the SDGs


• WP 4: Environmentally Sustainable Campus


• WP 5: Monitoring and Evaluation of the Project


• WP 6: Dissemination and Exploitation


• WP 7: Management of the Project