The SDG Academy represents the education and training division of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the mandate of promoting transformative education through the creation and curation of high-quality content on sustainable development, sharing of innovative pedagogies and training models, and providing open access to learning resources for a global audience.
Founded in 2014, the SDG Academy aims to enhance knowledge, skills, and learning for sustainable development. To realize the intergenerational goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda, the SDG Academy works to address the skills gap currently unfolding, as well as provide youth the tools they will need in the future. The SDG Academy's wide array of programming offers a dynamic repository of knowledge to enrich a global community of learners. This includes:
- 50+ Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), taught by experts and available for free on edX.org.
- The SDG Academy Library, a free, searchable repository of 2,000+ lecture and case study videos.
- Professional Certificate programs that link key sustainability issues with workplace skills.
- Degree partnerships, including our Master’s Pathway, Online Master’s Programs at University College Dublin (Ireland) and Sunway University (Malaysia), and the Master’s in Development Practice consortium.
- Thought leadership that brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share expertise on education for sustainable development and professional upskilling.