The project is led by a team of researchers from the University of Pretoria, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna; the expert advisor to the project is the academic Head of department in Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. The participants include teacher educators, pre-service and in-service teachers, postgraduate students and stakeholders from four SDG fields (e.g. SDG3, SDG4, SDG5 and SDG10); PhD students and undergraduate and postgraduate students from three Faculties and schools of Education (UP, Innsbruck, Vienna).
Main objectives of the project:
- Raising awareness about the SDGs in teachers and teacher educators
- Crafting future-focused research agendas on quality education, gender equality, reducing inequality and good health and wellbeing
- Building international collaborative networks to support the SDGs
- Supporting scientific knowledge development on the SDGs in the education domain
A series of online (and in-person where possible) webinars that are coupled with research colloquia, workshops and knowledge dissemination events on a variety of scientific platforms is conducted.
Webinar programm and more information about the project: https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/teach4reach/programme.html.en