 Good afternoon everyone, boa tarde todos e a todos and welcome to STSN Brazil annual conference. The theme of today's event is Rio Plus 30, the transformation and education since the 1992 Rio Summit. And we will discuss the progress towards the implementation of the STGs from the perspective of the transformations that happen in education, academic curricula, research and technological developments following the historic Rio 92 summit. Before I proceed, I'd like to let everybody know that we have interpretation from English to Portuguese. You just need to click on the globe written interpretation at the bottom of your zoom and select the language you want. Moving with the agenda, we are honored today to have an incredible group of speakers. The event will begin with Professor Marcelo Gadas, Vice Rector for Development and Innovation of Pukihiu and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, President of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for Opening Remarks. We will proceed with Dr. Rodrigo Medeiros, member of the Executive Committee and former chair of STSN Brazil. And Rodrigo will talk to us about Brazil's past, present and sorry, STSN Brazil's past, present and future perspectives. After that, Dr. Alisa Guimarães, Director of Global and Regional Projects and Initiatives at GIZ and Dr. Leone Grotengüff, Knowledge Management Specialist at GIZ as well will be brief us on the Regional Fund for Triangular Cooperation with Partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. Following that, Dr. Patrick Paul Walsh, who is the Vice President of Education and Director of the SDG Academy at STSN will tell us about the global impacts and importance of partnerships for transforming education for the SDGs. And last but not least, Dr. Marta Garciajaro, Senior Manager of the National and Regional Networks at STSN will talk to us about the importance of partnering with the profit sector to achieve the SDGs. We know this is a really comprehensive agenda, so we'll have a five minute break at 1pm New York time, 2pm Brazil. And we'll return to hear from Dr. Oscar Molina Tererina, Chair of SDSN Bolivia on SDSN Bolivia and Universidad Privada Policiana, followed by Dr. Monica Penilla, Assistant Director of the SDG Center for Latin American and Caribbean. And last but not least, we have Dr. Sonia Neve, Program Manager and Rich Coordinator of SDSN to tell us about SDSN's USA experience in mobilizing university. Dr. Tassio Mauro, the Campus Chair of SDSN Brazil will provide us with closing remarks. I would like to remind everyone to please keep your microphones off during this event. And without further ado I'd like to invite Professor Marcelo Gatas to the floor. Professor Marcelo, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. Let me just set up here. I hope everybody's seen my screen. It's an honor for Pukie Rio to have you to host this event. I should take this opportunity to briefly mention a few facts about Pukie. I think most of you already know our university. So we are a nonprofit organization in Brazil and with very nice vision and mission. That's true. I would just skip those things because I want to get to problems more interesting. What probably most of you know Pukie by, at least that's why I usually find that when I'm going abroad and people know Pukie by the, that's the university where the economic department for example in 1994 was able to reduce the inflation to with a very important program and that's how most of people know our university. Some people know our university also by this for almost 40 years of work we have been doing with the oil business. People sometimes can't think that this was sort of a dirty business sort of thing. It's not. We work very hard to prevent accidents to save lives, preserve the environment, and that's made our history a very successful history. We didn't have many. We didn't appear much in the press, but Pukie is now one of the first universities in the world, regarded to transfer of knowledge to its size. This is a small university has to 12,000 students only, but it has a very huge impact in projects. Our budget for projects is exceeds our budget for tuition in in great proportion. It's also a universe that are now very inspired by the love that the sea. In Ciclic that has all this care about the planet, also by fraternity. So we lately, we've been doing a lot of developments in the energy transitions. We have about $75 million in projects for energy transitions. So we are doing a lot of different things. I'm not going to go through those things because those are, but from carbon sequestration up to new fuel to future fuels and many other initiatives in this in this area. And finally, I would just point out that we are now going to we're creating a new project in the universe, which called Amazon is that this project is aimed to the forest preservation to respect of cute culture and local people, and to promote projects for refund. What we are basically intend to do is to use all our connections that we already have with big industries and international corporations to be a hub for companies university scientific institutions to promote a sustainable development in the Amazon, and present widely preserving the environment and the culture of the native people. This is very important. It's a very tough project that we are undertaking now with the support of the Vatican. And it's basically has the cooperation of how ready have the cooperation of many important institutions, including the jasmine institutions, which is planning now to create an special university in Amazon, and we are here now to provide support and to help in all those questions from research from from, for example, for anthropology questions of how you should, what kind of, of subjects and teaching should be given in Amazon. So should we approach the exploration in the economic development there, all with this vision of sustained with sustainability. So this, we are also having big proges for our Rio de Janeiro, especially focus on on Gavia Valley, but that's more of a cultural social program that is, we want to become an engine local engines here for Gavia Valley to help these cookies is located in a very nice place and with some community fables as they're known, and we want to work in the social integration that that's more inspired by the loud out to see. So all our projects because I'm just in the place here to give you this welcome and to say that we are here and very glad to be part of this SDSN. Thank you. Thank you very much, Professor Marcelo Gadas. It's really interesting to hear about the projects that focus on their taking. I want to take one question from from the floor now to Professor Marcelo Gadas. I, sorry. So I see that we have one hand raised from Adriana leaders. Unfortunately, we cannot. I cannot give the space. Oh, I see the rent is down. So if you have any questions for Dr. Marcelo Gadas, you can put your question on the q amp a box. I will give just a few seconds and if we don't have any questions I believe we can proceed with the agenda and if you have a question leader for Professor Marcelo Gadas, we can come back. Okay. Since I don't see any questions at the moment. We will proceed with our agenda. Professor Jeffrey sex told us that he's a little bit late so I would like to invite Dr Rodrigo materials member of this active committee and former chair of SDSN to talk about SDSN Brazil as president future perspectives. Rodrigo the floor is yours. Hello. I don't know if you're seeing my screen or, or you can hear me. We can hear you but we don't see your screen I see you. Yeah, you see. I'm not sharing any and it's like it's just more a story telling I have 10 minutes to talk about them in the SDSN in Brazil past president future. But first of all, good morning, everyone. Professor sex that in a few minutes will be with us and Professor got us from pookie, whom I greet here on behalf of our participants on this afternoon. My name is Rodrigo materials, and I am a member of the executive committee of the SDSN Brazil, and it is a good pleasure for me to be with you all on this first day of the forum. Talking very briefly about the past, present and future perspectives for SDSN Brazil, a little bit of history as DSN Brazil was officially launched in March 2014 here in Rio de Janeiro. And as it was in other countries, it was established in Brazil from the graduate program is sustainable development practice at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which is part of the global network of masters in sustainable development practices created a few years ago by Jeffrey sacks and I'm pretty sure that my friend. Patrick Paul will tell me a little bit more to at the first moment. It was a work done in close coordination with my deaf friend and my tool is I think that she's also with us on the forum to and which initially brought as a partners, in addition to the federal university itself, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Peter Passo Institute and conservation international Brazil. At the time the Peter Passo Institute acted as the first executive secretary at Secretariat for installing the network on the first month. And after that, the system of rotation of offices that we have until today was established. And then we have the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development FBDS acting as the first secretary at between April 2014 until March 2015, then followed by conservation international Brazil was the home for SDSN Brazil from April 2015 until March 2019, when Pukihiyu took over as its new secretary at March 2019. In this creation of the SDSN Brazil, given the context at that time. It was defined that the main objective of SDSN Brazil would be to present solutions for sustainable urban development within exclusive focus on thematic group nine. It was called sustainable cities, inclusive, resilient and connected in this thematic group, it was one of the 12 thematic groups originally designed by the SDSN global. And with a focus specifically on the implementation of the SDG 11 here in Brazil. The work carried out by the network at the SDG 11 left an important legacy for the Metropolitan Mission of Rio de Janeiro through different project and the studies that were carried out by the network during this period by with several network members with the support at that time of the secretariat but also by the GIZ and so. But in 2019, the transition to Pukihiyu allow us to evaluate the work we carry out by the network until then, and let us to an important change at the time, start to work not only with on SDG the urban SDG, but start to work with all the communities in the countries in the country in Brazil. In this new phase. Now, I rather speak a little bit about the present and above all the future. The challenges are very great. Many of you probably know unfortunately Brazil in recent years has studied itself from moving away itself from a project from a project with a vocation for sustainability. It is what been through in this past and especially this past four years. And this collision of the first station in the Amazon in the Sahabu, and the disrespect of rights of indigenous people in Brazil are just two examples of this. Now here in Brazil we are a few days away from a historic election presentation election that will define the future not only of Brazil but certainly of the planet. I'd like to repeat here the title of the editorial published yesterday but nature magazine that same bold letters. There's only one choice in Brazil's elections for the country and for the world and that's why what's going on in Brazil right now it's very important not only for Brazil, but for the entire word. But I recognize that whatever the result may be next Sunday, the day of the second round of elections in Brazil. It is certain that SDSN will play a very important role in Brazil. In the reconstruction and reserve the resumption of the SDGs agenda in the country in an eventual and more than desired new government, or as a poll of dialogue and resistance if the choice Sunday leaders to continue to continue the current governments project. I want to point out that the creation of all the work of SDSN Brazil over these almost eight years now. The result of collaborative work that involved dozens of people in addition to the more of by now I think more than 50, 50 members institution spread across different states in Brazil. Because it would be very difficult for me in this short space of time to name all the people who were imported in this process. And then otherwise, I would really fail to mention people who were very important this genre, and there will be a lot of people that make as the SDSN in Brazil make tribe. So instead of, I mean, mentioned a list of people I would like just to pay a tribute to my deaf friend, Luis Finipi-Guanas, a professor at Pukihio for over two decades, and to who I had the honor to hand over the coordination of SDSN Brazil in 2019. Filippi was a friend and a partner who was always close to the network and since the beginning, first as a member, since the foundation of the network in 2013, and of course later, opening the doors of Pukihio, so that Nima are now a sustainability nucleus in Brazil coordinated by him at book could be the new home of SDSN. Sadly, Filippi left us very, very young, right after a terrible pandemics that all of us, I mean, they've been true in the past years. And we are very sorry that he's not here with us to enjoy and celebrate this moment today. But we are sure, and I can say that I mean, on behalf of my colleagues from the executive committee and all the people involved in the managing the network in Brazil right now that we are sure that his joy and passion. We always be alive in our memories and we'll serve as an extra motivation for this new phase of SDSN in Brazil. I would say that the achievement of the SDSN Brazil project that he helped it to build a more closely in this past, I mean, four years, which forces a fairer and a more sustainable word definitely will be the best way for us to honor his memory. So, thank you all. This is a very brief, brief, brief, brief history of about the SDSN Brazil, and I wish you all an excellent forum. Head back to you, Isabella. Thank you, Rodrigo. Thank you for this overview on SDSN Brazil and as an alumni of the Masters of Development Practice in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. This has a, it's a soft spot for me. You have great professions, great professors working there. And thank you for your words about Felipe. He's definitely missed, he's dearly missed by all of us. We have two questions, one for Professor Gatas and one to you Rodrigo. So, for Professor Gatas, we have a question from Carla Kinierin. I would like to know what are the ideas for extension programs in Pukihio. And, Rodrigo, we have a question on how do you see SDSN Brazil medium to long term goals aligned with the pressing decade of action. I didn't get the question, can you just, Isabella, can you just repeat it again, please? Sure, it was a question about extension programs at Pukihio. Well, I don't know if I forgot the intent of the question. We have a continuum education program, which is active and we intend to increase the activity. But also we have, we understand the extension of the university decision as more is this participation of the university in projects around the environment. Mauricio is saying that you are not hearing me, is that the problem? Is everybody listening? Yes, he might be in another channel. Okay, so, yes, we, if the question is regarded to the Amazon initiative and the Gavriavadi initiative, those are projects that are starting, we already have this several parts of the university, several projects inside of the university, and we are now trying to promote sort of a global action inside of the university in this direction. So, I hope that we will have extension programs for that too. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Gatas, Rodrigo. Thank you for the question and I don't want to be pessimist because I'm not at all pessimist, I really optimistic, but we all know that I mean we are running out of time for the climate agenda and the SDG agenda. I think 2013 to 2030 is around the corner, and especially in Brazil, we definitely got behind in this past four years due to lack of leadership and all the disturbances that happens here. And that I mean networks like SD, SCN, that really puts people to work together and make the difference, I mean, and make, you know, some, some way to advance and move forward quickly, that agenda will be more than important for Brazil right now. And then I say again that we really, speaking of Brazil, of course, we really to wait until Sunday to see the elections results to see what kind of strategy we will have to put on the ground because definitely there are two different organizations on the table right now, submitted to the Brazilian population on the ballot Sunday. But whatever, as I said, it is the results, definitely a network like SDSC any working along with other network and others organization and universities in Brazil, it will be crucial, whether to help to accelerate implementation of solutions to advance the SDG agenda, whether to be as I say that a piece of resistance to avoid bigger diseases that will fill not only for Brazil, but the entire world. So it is, for me, I'm very glad that we, despite all the, we've been doing Brazil we hear today, gathering a lot of people interested on the SDG issue, and willing to do something and willing to work he as I said no matter the results on Monday. We have to deal with that. And the best way to do with that is continue to work to, I mean, building to create a better planet for everybody. Thank you, Rodrigo. Yes, that's great. I would like to now give the floor to Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey, the floor is yours. Hi everybody. Thanks for letting me join and if I can. I want to show you where I am. Now, I don't know if you can see the flag. It is the Brazilian Embassy indeed. I am happy to be in Piazza Navona, beautiful Piazza Navona. And we are standing sittingly right in front of the Brazilian Embassy. And I hope that that means not not only your leadership but also that we can count on Brazil's leadership in the days ahead. And as we just heard, I think the elections on Sunday are of crucial significance, obviously for Brazil's future, but also for the world's future. If things turn out well, and I'm speaking just on my own part, because I'm a great admirer of President Lula, I think that the added leadership will get in global sustainable development will be absolutely amazing. You know, in the past year, SDSN has been supporting the science panel for the Amazon, and Carlos Nobre has done a magnificent job in leading Amazon based scientists from all of the eight Amazon basin countries in this wonderful collaborative effort. And President Lula has been asking Carlos Nobre for advice, for help, for strategies going forward. And one of the things that President Lula said on the campaign trail is that if he is elected, he will launch an initiative not only for the Amazon rainforest, but to link together the three great equatorial rainforests of the world, the Amazon basin, the Congo basin, and the Indonesian Southeast Asian equatorial rainforest. He called it the BICS proposal, not the BRICS, but the BICS, meaning Brazil, Indonesia, and Congo. That's thrilling. It's an example of what we would expect from President Lula and from Brazil's leadership. There's another reason why Brazil's leadership can play an absolutely huge role, and that is the G20. Of course, Brazil is an important member of the G20, but especially important member in the next two years. In 2024, Brazil will host the G20. That's a big deal, because it gives Brazil a lot of influence on the global policy agenda. But it's even better than that, because the way the G20 works is a so-called Troika process, whereby in any particular year, three governments cooperate closely. The government that preceded the year in hosting the G20, the current host of the G20, and the future host of the G20. So in 2023, with Brazil in line to be the 2024 president of the G20, and with Indonesia being this year's G20 president, we will have a Troika of Indonesia from 2022, India as the host in 2023, and Brazil as the upcoming presidency in 2024. Now that's a powerful combination, Indonesia, India, and Brazil. That's a real opportunity to help reset the global agenda for the interests of the developing countries and for the interests of sustainable development. It would obviously bring two-thirds of the BICS into the Troika, Indonesia, and Brazil together. It would bring three countries that have a lot of geopolitical weight and a lot of call over the years for social justice and a lot of demand for reform of the international financial system together. One of the things that we know is needed for the Amazon, but more generally for sustainable development, is to shift the pattern of global finance towards- Can you hear me? Sorry, I had an incoming call. I was saying one of the recognized needs of the SDGs is to shift some meaningful part of global saving, which is about $27 trillion each year worldwide to increased SDG-based investments in the low-income and lower-middle-income countries or in the developing countries more generally, an extra or additional trillion or even $2 trillion of investments in the developing countries. That's manageable. It's about 2% of world output. It's about 8% of world saving, but that's the shift that we need. And that is what the Secretary General of the UN, Secretary General Gutierrez, has called for in an SDG stimulus where he has appealed to the G20 countries to help redirect some meaningful part of global saving for the SDGs in the developing world. And I'm working with Secretary General on that and helping to think through institutional mechanisms to tap a larger fraction of world saving. Well, frankly, I'm very excited, a little nervous, but very excited for Sunday and especially for Monday, assuming we have good results, which I'm counting on, the chance to really make a difference in the global financial architecture to finance the basic transformations in education, in healthcare, in green energy, in sustainable agriculture, in nature-based solutions, in urban infrastructure, and in digitalization of services and economies in the interest of inclusion and sustainability. And we're going to have a real opportunity to do that and I'm counting on Brazil's leadership. So just want to say it's nice to be standing in front of the Brazilian Embassy here in this beautiful square, this Piazza Navona in Rome. It gives me hope. It gives me confidence that we're going to be heading in a very exciting and dynamic direction and it's going to be coming very, very soon. Thanks a lot for letting me join you. Good luck on Sunday. Please go out, make sure you vote and everybody else that you know votes because you're voting for the future of Brazil and the future of the world. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you for telling us about the bigs, the G20 and how the SDGs stimulus are possible. We have two questions on the chat for you. One is from Vagano Trompete. He's asking, besides Pukillo, are there other universities or public sector engaged in Brazil with the SDGs? Can you cite a few of them? Well, SDSN Brazil has lots of members throughout the country, so I think please, SDSN Brazil, make sure that everybody knows how to join, how to participate, how to increase engagement. There are so many important institutions in Brazil, universities, federal universities, state universities, think tanks, national laboratories, rate research centers. And one of Carlos Nobre's ideas is to establish a new center for the bio economy in the Amazon itself, so a new one that we're going to be hoping to found. But please make sure that everybody in Brazil knows how to get involved. Thank you, Jeffrey. We also have a question from Patricia Marinho. Patricia is saying that the Northeast of Brazil asks for help. And she's asking if SDSN has anything planned for us, for the Northeast of Brazil. She's talking from Porto de Galinhas and Pujuca in Pernambuco, one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. Thank you very much. Every country needs a national strategy that has regional development focus within it. And so the Northeast of Brazil has many special features, many particular needs, many special opportunities as well. Again, I'm afraid that the government has not done its job in recent years in creating that sustainable development framework, but I think it is what is going to be on the way. And in that context, I hope that SDSN Brazil could help the Northeast, which does have a lot of special needs, a lot of beauty, a lot of tourism, of course, incredible culture to develop SDG based development plans. With this SDG stimulus, there should be an opportunity to increase the flows of finance for investments in the Northeast. We're doing that in Colombia right now because in Colombia, the Caribbean region and the Pacific Coastal region, which are Afro-Columbian communities have, of course, for a long time been far behind other parts of the country in development and in access to public investment. And so we've been working with the government on developing a new large scale investment program on a regional basis for these regions that are behind the other regions in infrastructure and physical access and so forth. The Latin American Development Bank, in this case the CAF, is going to lend long term funds to the Colombian government directed specifically at those Afro-Columbian communities. So this is an example of regional based development with financing coming along with it from the CAF. And I think we could think creatively about a similar kind of strategy for Brazil's Northeast. Thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you for your answers. And now we will proceed with the agenda. I'd like to invite, oh, sorry. No, just to say goodbye to everybody. Thank you very much. Good luck on Sunday. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Jeffrey. Bye bye. So now I'd like to invite Dr. Alisse Guimarens and Dr. Leonie Brotegov to talk about regional fund for a triangular cooperation with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. Alisse and Leonie, the floor is yours. Thank you very much Isabella and thank you for the invitation. It's great to be here today. Maybe I'll just briefly start and I will try to share my screen. I hope that you can see it and that it works. We can see it. Perfect. Yes. So my name is Leonie Grotegov and I work for GIZ, the German corporation and more specifically the regional fund for triangular cooperation with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. And we are here today to talk a little bit about one of our, one of the projects between Brazil, the Palestinian territories and Germany on mitigating the effects of the pandemic through innovation, renewable energies and green invocational education for more employable youth. So I just want to briefly jump in by presenting the regional fund and for those of you who aren't familiar maybe with the instrument of triangular cooperation. Those are triangular cooperation projects that are jointly planned finance and implemented between a soliciting a private partner and a facilitating partner in our case, Germany. And it's projects that can provide flexible innovative and contact adapted solutions to create development challenges of partners. So that is sort of what is our goal as a fund. We want to strengthen triangular cooperation as you can see on the slide for national and global development in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. And we promote both the TRC projects and also focus on capacity development. And our goal is to be partner oriented in our implementation and contribute to global and of course regional development goals such as the agenda 2030. And so far, so we have been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2011. And we have promoted the German part of the of 170 of the measures with 33 partner countries so far in 11 different sectors with 36 projects currently being implemented. And we work through two calls for proposals per year in April and October. And if you want to learn more about the fund or the modality of triangular cooperation, I would invite you to just go on our website or directly reach out to me. And just as a final point, I wanted to mention that triangular cooperation is an instrument that contributes to all of the SDGs such as SDG for with in quality education as my colleague at least he will present the example in a few minutes. And in our understanding, this is mostly due to the flexible nature of the instrument of the instrument, because it operates openly and unrestricted and is fully oriented towards the demands of partners. But saying this, it is also important to underline that there is a focus on strengthening particularly SDG 17 as you can see on this slide, focusing on strengthening partnerships to reach the sustainable development goals. So we have been trying to establish the fund as a platform for knowledge sharing and peer to peer learning on triangular cooperation and of course on the development solutions. And, yeah, as you can see, especially on the indicators 1776 and 1789. And of course, Baba plus 40 was also instrumental to putting into action this 2030 agenda by calling for more and stronger partnerships, not only in the public sector but also with multi actor partnerships such as with civil society organizations research institutes etc. And so this is also something that we are promoting through triangular corporations to really join efforts to further expand on networks of partners, connecting countries and partners from different regions in search for, yeah, fulfilling our global commitment to sustainable development and the reduction of inequalities. And now I want to hand over to Alice to get into the project. Thank you very much. Thank you, Leone. I am Alice give an eyes from G is at Brazil. And first of all, I am very glad to be here on this meeting. We had very interesting discussions before this presentation. I would like to highlight that I am here also with Andre Barros, Andre Barros is from the Brazilian agency of cooperation and G is at Brazil is working with ABC since in trilateral project since 2010. And if you want also address some questions to the Brazilian part of this trilateral projects you can ask him directly. So, I will speak a little bit about this project that began at the end of 2020 that is called renewable energies and green invocation of education for a more employable youth. The duration is two years, the estimated cost is 720,000 euros and 300,000 are from Brazil 300,000 from Germany and 120 from Palestine. The question institution is the national TV at commission in Palestine, and also participate ABC as I told the Ministry of Education of Brazil Mac, the Ministry of Education of Palestine, the national TV at commission in Palestine, the Palestine International Cooperation Agency, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the BMZ, and the G is it. This project wants to advance the state of learning and teaching renewable energy in Palestine and strengthen the cooperation between the private sector and TVET institutions TVET is technical and vocational education and training. And the most important is of this project is the interchange of knowledge between Brazil, the Palestinian territories and Germany. Here in Brazil we have a very advanced system that includes the private sector in the planning of the courses and so on and this is the most strong in the project. And yes, the first thing, of course, it was to see or to to research the needs of the Palestinian labor demand to see which kind of professionals professionals in this photovoltaic area they need. And then select courses in Brazil that will be used as a starting point for knowledge transfers between the two countries and supported by additional advice from Germany. Furthermore, exchanges between the world of tech teaching and learning in the world of work will lead to institutionalized forums that shall benefit the sector in the long term. What we are doing and we already did is to sit on the same table, the private sector and the teachers and and trying to find very specifically the needs of the private sector for professionals. And we are doing this in Palestine and also here in Brazil, of course, but we do this together in Palestine now. Of course, we will also work with the regulatory framework and and all of this are the main points of this project. The next one, Leonie. The outputs of this project is basically revising, revisiting the approach towards photovoltaic energy and governmental technical and vocational education, both in Palestine and Brazil, and also in Germany. Stablishing a dialogue of stakeholders on harmonizing the framework in energy education and economic sectors in Palestine and research and and also to foster the research in Palestine, considering the experience from a project. And what between Mac and JZ here in Brazil, there is the program for development and renewable energies and energy efficiency in the federal network in a gift. And here we try to link some of our indicators, the indicators of the project with the SDGs. And as you can see, we have different SDGs that you that we can link with what we are doing. And the first of them are the 17 that only already told is the most important SDGs, I think for all the trilateral or triangular cooperation, because it's about partnerships for the goals and I think that this is a strong mechanism to to achieving such kind of partnerships. And here, our first indicator, a indicator speaks about join applied scientific research processes between Brazil, Palestinian Tibet institutions in Brazilian counterparts, which will foster this 17 indicator, I think that I will not enter in the the indicators of the SDGs because we will not have sufficient time, but I hope this presentation will be with you and so you can see Leonie you can go. Oh, you are having some trouble. Let's me try to jump in. I don't know how to do this. Let's see. No, I can, I can hear you again. Sorry. Yes. No, it's the, the next slide, please. Yes. Is it, can you see it? Yes. Now, yes. The other indicator that we have is that at least two new TV programs are offered by TV institutions in Palestine. And this is related with the SDG of quality education, the SDG and also here the SDG of industry innovation and infrastructure because of course this indicator is related also to the resource use efficiency, greater adoption of clean and environmentally technologies and this of course will will foster the industry. The next one is the most direct with this project. There is the SDGs of quality education. We have also one indicator that at least 40 teachers and trainers, including all existing female teachers, there are not too much, but we will include all of them. And trainers were addressed in theoretical and practical training in the field of renewable and energies by multipliers who received the inputs through this project. In July, we were in Palestine with two teachers from the federal institutions, the EFES is here in Brazil with with the Ministry of Education, and they did a training for this multipliers for a lot of teachers that will work as multipliers of this training in Palestine. The last one, Leone? Yes, also of course the SDGs about the SDG about affordable and clean energy, all of them are related with this indicator. And one of them is also that we will upgrade three labs for vocational training in the field of renewable energy, specifically solar energy in the project. And of course, with this project, we are trying to spread more the solar energy, the use of solar energy in the Palestinian territories. Next one. Yes, the sum of the pictures of this two weeks that we passed in Palestine, making this first interchange between Palestinian teachers and Brazilian teachers and professionals. And now, I will try to summarize some of the lessons learned that we already have the project is in the middle, and we will have more lessons until then, but we can find some lessons to share with you. What we saw the project began in the pandemic, so it was very hard the first months to really set the environment of trust between everyone. We are speaking about very different countries with very different cultural backgrounds and different languages, Arabic and Portuguese. But what we saw with this first mission is that it was really, really meaningful for each one that was there, and we could set a very confident environment after this meeting. So our lesson is that it's important to build a confident environment to better develop the project. And presidential meetings are fundamental at the early stage of the project to build an environment of trust. From my perspective, we can do a lot of good things in virtual meetings, including capacitations and learning and so on. But there are some things that we still need the presidential meetings to really understand the other side and have the best relationship possible to reach jointly the goals of a project. The other one is that each country is different and they have their own time, and in the trilateral projects, we need to adapt and be flexible to find a joint way to achieve the project goals, even when things are not the way that we planned. It's important that both sides know each other's education networks, how they work, how the partnerships are to get a good implementation and make it more effective. So we had to do a series of studies before beginning the capacitations to also have this knowledge shared. People who are going to provide the trainings must know the whole project and the conditions at the demand countries. It's not sufficient that we are planning with only the people that are more in the management of the project. We need to really have the teachers also inside and that they know the whole thing to better implement their part. We need to try to obtain a maximum of information about the country and its needs before planning the training. I already told that. And here is a photograph of a practical training that we did there and one of our lessons is try to provide more practice in the trainings, align the theoretical contact with practice. Elisabeth, I'm sorry, but we need to wrap up the section. Okay, no, no, that's it. I think that the most important is to say that no matter the difference, no matter the difficulties that you had at the technical level, when you put together the technical level in different countries, they will find a way to join efforts and to work together. So this I think is the most important and thank you very much. Thank you very much, Elisabeth. Thank you, Leonie, for telling us about NorthSouth cooperation and this exchange between Brazil, Palestine and Germany. We will move now with the next panel and I will collect the questions for all of the panels at the end. So now we will proceed with Dr. Patrick Paul Walsh on the global impact and importance of partnerships for transforming education for the SDGs. Patrick, the floor is yours. Thank you, Isabel. I can't turn on my camera. It's the host is not allowing me. Are you stopped me? Okay. Hello everyone. So again, thank you for the kind invitation today. So, first of all, Rodrigo, I remember we were on the steering group of the MDP in the initial days but one of the big things we did was set up the International Conference on Sustainable Development and that was actually 10 years old today and I was thinking of you when we were reviewing that. I know it's excellent to be on the call with you today. So, let me know that you can hear me properly, but you're seeing my slides. We can see your screen, you're good. Okay, excellent. So hopefully I'll get to the topic, the importance of partnerships for transforming education so I will give a little bit of a summary of the, the tests that GA meeting that happened about a month ago. I'm Patrick Paul Walsh. I'm, I've been with STSN and the STG Academy as a, let's say an external advisor for many years, but I've decided to go into operations and I'm on a succumbent from University College Dublin. Now, Vice President of Education and Director of the STG Academy at STSN. I have an annual report so if you want to take a camera shot of the code there you can download our, our, the current one for the activities that we've done during the year so the things I'm going to mention now maybe you might want to read in more detail. You can do that by looking at the annual report. Basically, there's three things we do. We do content, which I'll talk about first. So the Academy puts together, let's call them MOOCs, our massive online courses and our key one, we've other platforms in different languages, but the key one is edX, this is the MIT Harvard one. And we have been doing this since 2014 and there's some very successful online content there that's what's called an open, open education resource. You know, Jeff Saxe's age, Sustainable Development or Rockstone's Planetary Boundaries or a data see ethics in action. There's lots of very popular courses and Isabella would be former MBTP students will be delighted to hear that we're going to do a MOOC on the science panel for the Amazon but she probably knows this of course. She works on it. So one thing is content. The next thing we do is, and I won't go into a huge detail is we build out on that content. So we have, we're starting professional training for teachers and corporates, we're starting professional training for governments. And also we're doing online master's degrees, both in UCD and Sunway, and we're starting to do micro masters and so on. So if you're interested in any of these issues where more or less learning how to do this and to do it well. So if your university wants to get involved in any of these things and have your course open edX etc on this with the SG Academy let me know. We also are involved in what we call communities are practice which the Masters of Development practices, which is a wonderful group of people teaching coordinating and working on the, what we call the MD the global Association of Masters of Programs. And they've been there for a long time, I guess, about 10 years, and they produce some wonderful graduates like Isabella there, etc, and I'm sure there's seven or eight thousand of you at this stage. We also run global schools, which is more about mobilizing teachers in schools across different countries. The next thing I just want to talk about, I'll talk about mission 4.7 in a minute because that's another, we're a secretariat to that initiative as well which I'll talk about in a sec. I just want to frame kind of education or the work that we do, or what we should be doing in terms of what I'm going to call the global knowledge commons I know in this so there's this very short article in a magazine. This is the International Association of Universities under UNESCO. And they have this big quarterly magazine. This paper I just tried to condense my kind of worldview of this. And, you know, we do need my intuition is that the knowledge we have to create a safe place for humanity. And for nature is really not enough we're well inside the frontier. And the problem with this is that a lot of the knowledge is concentrated a little bit in well resource that say universities are research centers and then we have a lot of under resourced. And three things that really have to happen. And I'm sure SDSM Brazil is working on it and we all are. It's the first thing is that the knowledge that we create and when I mean knowledge I'm talking about, you know, research papers, education resources data policy briefs and so on. You know, it's not always free to access, you know that there's paywalls, and it's not always orientated to the public good. And that is a problem. And so, one of the key things that we should be focused on is UNESCO's what's called open science recommendation, and they're open resource recommendation. And these recommendations are as close to a legal agreement as you can get amongst governments and everyone has signed it, except the US because they're not a member of UNESCO. We all should be working hard and helping each other create the knowledge that we need for the SDGs and it's a lot of work to do to get to get SDG courses and curriculum going the different degrees to get the research, get the policy, get the data going. And we obviously have to work together on this right. The second thing is, we also have to be aware that we have to build capacities in universities in the global south so we're really not doing our job if we're not transferring and disseminating our knowledge and twinning and partnering. And the project before this was showing the importance of this. And finally, we do have to take responsibility as universities and higher education institutions to actually come out. And if you like, disseminate our work and to help corporate governments and NGOs actually implement the SDG agenda. So rather than being passive and letting the private and government and civil society come in on us, we ought we have to basically mobilize ourselves and take a leadership role in implementing this agenda and take actions to do this for to disseminate into policy into corporates and into civil society. So they're the big jobs to do. SDG Academy is a secretary to Mission 4.7. It's a network which global schools and SDG Academy is a secretary for but is set up by the Ban Ki-moon Center, UNESCO, the Center for same developed from the university, the practical Academy of Science and Social Science. And the idea here it's a very nice target in SDG for this is the whole idea of global citizenship or lifelong learning that we all have to understand how we coexist with nature and coexist with humanity all around the world. To have empathy and understanding all across the world. And it's a key driver of peace and sustainable development but there's a lot of work to be done to ensure from preschool all the way through schooling into university lifelong learning that there is indeed participation in in sustainable development education and in a sense that's the challenge of transforming education. So I've just explained this that, you know, we, we, we have the young learners who we want from preschool to learn through their schooling, sustainable development education. Unfortunately, most of us have not got that in people inside universities have not got it. We have our leaders in corporates and governments and civil society without sustainable development education. So this is a problem. So upskilling, if you like, start starting at the top of the ladder is important as the bottom of the ladder in terms of upskilling people on sustainable development. And that's why I mission 4.7 is talking about the continuum of education lifelong from preschool all the way to end of life. Universities can be a part of this right it's not such. Yes, I'm sorry. But we are running a little bit out of time if you can wrap up. No big deal. Okay. And so you can, I tell you what, I'll give you my slides and you can have a look. So, the only message I wants to say is that education. If you don't put money and effort into education, you cannot achieve any of the other transformations. So what I mean is, is that the depth and scope of education is extremely weak. We're putting no money into it. So the SDG stimulus could be very important that Jeff talked about. I also summarize what the transforming education so much has six calls to action and break folk and finance a very big focus and digital transformation. What exactly they're going to do with the digital transformation. You can have a look at the these are the commitments that were made a month ago by global leaders. And then finally, I show you a project that STSN is running on implementing the OER recommendation by UNESCO, which is just pleading with academics with their learning management systems their curriculum with their data research to put it in repositories, put it into open licenses like created commons licenses, make sure you can put a property right on it, but it can be used for free all over the world it can be updated we use translators, and we all have to work together. You know, within and across nations to create this knowledge for sustainable development that you care for sustainable development. And that's why education is so important. Thank you, Patrick. That's really interesting. And I'm sorry to to interrupt us. I'm sure you have many other interesting projects to to tell us. I think we can open for two questions and before a quick break of five minutes. Yes, we have a comment from Aurel Carvalho to you, but it's not a question. Hello. She was in my class last year in Harvard Extension School so I hope she's doing well. Also, we have one question for for you. It's will Morris the Academy materials bill available in Portuguese. And how can this and Brazil support this progress. Yeah, so basically what it's just what I was saying in the last project is it's our material is open ed X but that has curbs as we say in technology right. So what we want to do is get all of this down in repositories and into a thing called scroll and put property rights on it and put metadata on it so that people can pick and choose the content that they want and create their own course. So the best thing you can do is to translate it into into Portuguese or add your own case studies and add your own interesting points so I call it create your own teddy bear. But we have a little bit of work to do to get that repository up and running and to get it finance but this is one of the big projects we're going to do an open education research. And of course, it's vital that people are able to update and translate and repurpose and add their own content to reflect the local context because this is the best way that we can share open education resources but that is our aim and this is vital in what's called the open education resource recommendation which is from UNESCO which is really worth reading, because this is exactly its mandate all governments have said they would do this and support this including Brazil. So it's time for people to the academics and curriculum providers to do this. Patrick, we have one question to to Alice and Leonie. So, who are the players involved in the energy partnership from Brazil and what are their roles. I already write brought. But okay, I can I can tell you also. My video is not turning on so I will only speak here. The participants from Brazil. The participants from Brazil are ABC as the coordinating agency for all the Brazilian technical cooperation, the Ministry of Education and the federal institutes and giving their technical expertise and also. Yes, that's it, because these are the the institutions involved from the Brazilian side. Thank you, Alice. Okay. Now we will have a five minute break and we'll be back with with Martin release. Thank you. And we can help them to get. Yeah, so we can not only give them help by giving them visibility. We also wanted to give them the opportunity to work with experts in the real implementation of their ideas. So this is what this project was about recognizing some of the best ideas coming from students in the sds and network and connecting them to the practical field. So now let's see how this partner fit took place. So first of all, it was possible, I would say because both organization had a common goal. So, that common goal, as I said was SDG 13. And of course, as the SN has different objectives. But very different objectives than the Siemens gameta which was the company going to tell you about, but we were both trying to solve the same underlying challenges. So the project was born on this basis. First, that addressing the climate emergency by changing the trajectory of CO2 levels is the most pressing imperative for our time, and it requires both solutions. Second, that many students are particularly worried about this. And from sds and we can give them the chance to be part of this solution. How do we know about the solutions? How can we connect them with those who could make them possible. So this was our worry, our objective from sds and on the other hand, the company with who we worked on this project Siemens gameta is a global leader in renewable energy. And they have been promoting STEM studies for a long time, and they wanted to identify talent worldwide in this area. So, so first of all, they approached us through sds and use. We started with some collaborations in hackathons and other events. So this knowing each other for a while led to a more broader initiative which is what I'm going to to share next slide please. There's a lot of context about how this collaboration can happen between a network and academic network like sds and and a big international company like Siemens gameta. So as I said, this is started like a soft collaboration and a national level. So the first contacts were to participate in events in Spain, and then it went global. Why? I would say because of the characteristics of the partners, which I show in the square on the left. You know, Siemens gameta is a company that is dedicated to renewable energies, and it is a company that has wide commitment to sustainability. So this was like the perfect context to work with them. Second, sds is a nonprofit with quite agile operations and this is the decision making process. So we have the flexibility to align the project and the timelines to the company's needs for for shorter outcomes like normally companies have. And we also had the understanding the need to line the project with the company's strategy. So this will be the characteristics of the two partners. And the second aspect was the added value of the proposal for for both organizations. So for sds and Siemens gameta had two main assets, I would say the connections with with the global leader in clean energies. And all the experts were worried. And second, of course, the ability to provide the funding. And secondly, for the company sds and could provide access to university students, in particular in some of their priority countries. So we could reach, you know, like everywhere. Second, the cogeneration of innovative solutions together with our network and their experts. And finally, the branding with the UN initiative. So this is a bit of the context. What was the collaboration that came out of all these discussions. Next slide please. This is what came out the the competition called the universities for goal 13. The humans gameta word to climate solutions. So we both went forces to recognize the most disruptive and transformative solutions emerging from from our networks. As you can read here this is an annual competition for undergraduate and graduate students of all the note of the global network. This project takes place simultaneously in five countries and showcase how universities can contribute from their regions. Secondly, it aims to promote university talent in the fight against climate change by identifying the solutions. The students work across disciplines, different disciplines produce those solutions for energy transition and environmental sustainability. There are some requirements for this solution. So we established that they had to be they have to have a disruptive potential. They had to be aligned with the SDGs and they had to be technically feasible. Third, this competition wants to foster interdisciplinary work and team cooperation. So the students were responsible for choosing the problem they wanted to solve and they decided with their teachers within the university how the teams would be composed. So they were very varied with the students from many different faculties, disciplines from humanities to STEM studies, etc. And finally, the competition, as I said before, wants to help further the development and make it possible with mentorship and funding. So the students work for several months assisted by teaching staff and experts from from the company. And then they get there is a winner that is awarded $10,000. And also there is a public event in which we present the project and it's presented to a global audience. So, yeah, this, this is a bit of the outlines of the project. So, next slide please. Oh, let's just jump on this one please. Thank you, Diana. Thank you. So some outcomes from the first position I don't want to go into too much detail, but for this first edition we selected five SDSM members from China, South Africa, Germany, USA and Brazil. And then Puck Rio was one of the of the institutions and precisely because this university aims to become a hub for the energy transition in Brazil, like the vice-director Marcelo Gattas mentioned during his presentation. The participation was very high, a total of 14 teams send proposals with more than 50 students being involved, and only in China. So we've been attracted in the first round of the selection, 25 teams with more than 100 students participating in the first round of selection. Then with the company with Siemens Gamesa, we managed to mobilize more than 10 mentors worldwide, ranging from renewable energy experts to country managers and top executives in the company. Finally, as you can see in the picture, the award ceremony took place last September with the participation of Geoffrey Sacks, with the Vice President of Networks, Maria Cortes-Puig, and also with the top executive from Siemens Gamesa. And this event was held alongside the International Conference for Sustainable Development, the STS Centre, organized this annually. We had about 150 participants being also one of the most successful events in the conference. In the first cohort of STS, I just have to say we had amazing solutions addressing issues such as the use of beer fuels, sustainable land use, sustainable wind turbines, or even new ways of generating sustainable energy. So as an example, the team from Pup Real developed a tool to support the licensing of offshore wind farms. And this is a project that caught the attention of the Siemens engineers who have extended even their mentorship to the team for a longer period. I would say that anyone interested in knowing more about this project developed by Brazil, or about the competition in general, you may contact the manager of STSM Brazil, Melisa Antunes. So maybe Melisa, if you want to remind your contact or they want to reach me, I'm also happy to give you more information about this competition. So next slide please. All the five final solutions were presented, all of them in the format of pitch videos. Some of them are available online. You may check the example here from the students of the University of Pretoria. I will share the link after I finish my, I conclude my presentation. So if you can have a look, this project was wonderful. They found a solar power non-thermal plasma technology to treat water in their rural communities. This project has already obtained further funding to be implemented in some communities. So it's great to see how these projects are not only on paper, but they also get done. So I would like to conclude my presentation. Next slide please. Sharing with you why I see an opportunity for Pokhri again to participate again if they want in the second edition. And I would really like to encourage all the professors and staff from the university who want to get involved to reach to us. So as I mentioned, I can just say that the mentors that participated in this initiative founded not only enriching but extremely rewarding. So I really recommend you join us. Why? You get to mobilize students across the university. You get to engage them in such a global challenge like climate change. You get them the chance to develop a project and get some initial funding for a specific solution. You get the students to get mentorship from one of the top companies in renewable energies. Not only the mentorship period is amazing, but also the fact that this may give them also work opportunities for the future. And finally, with this project, an SDSM member was part of a global initiative. So I hope you will be joining us in this exciting project for the next edition. And thank you for your time for listening to this project. I'm now happy to answer any questions. Back to you, Isabela. Thank you. It's really, really exciting to hear about this project. Thank you for telling us about it. We have one question for you. And it's how do you think this partnership can inspire private entities from other sectors that are not from the energy sector to want to engage with the work of SDSM? Yes. I mean, this experience was extraordinary because as I said, the context was like a perfect match because the sponsor is totally aligned with the work we're doing. In general, I would say that I think companies also find very rewarding working with students, you know, getting this young energy to develop new ideas. So this worked very well. And also I would say that our network can be very, very flexible in working with companies. In this sense, I have to say that it was very easy to work with this company as well because the team of the social commitment department was totally aligned with the way we work. We had the same vision. So I think the key here is to find a company in which you find yourself comfortable with a team with who you share the vision and the mission. And finally, you know, the results are just so amazing. Two of the projects are going to be implemented. So you get real results and both the company and SDSN benefit from this. So it's like in marketing, they say like a win-win situation. Thank you very much, Marta. I would like now to invite Dr. Oskar Molina, Chair of SDSN Bolivia to the floor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Please, if I can share my screen. Can you see my screen? We can. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the invitation for me and SDSN Bolivia. It's a great pleasure to participate in this conference in Brazil to share with you the most important insights of our work in SDSN Bolivia and with the most detailed, the municipal Atlas of the SDGs. First, I would like to show you some information about my country. Of course, in Brazil, you know, Bolivia is a small economy. In nominal terms, the GDP is $40 billion. Brazil is more than 1,600 billion. It is interesting that when I talk about Bolivia in other countries, many people from Europe, Africa, Asia, or even some people from the United States think that Bolivia has a very small territory. But this is not true. And of course, you know, we have more than one million of square kilometers. This is more than France and Spain together. In terms of population, we are a small country, only 12 million people, or GDP per capita in party purchasing power is $9,000, half of the global average. For example, for the same year is $16,000. And in 2000, you know, the GDP per capita in PPP in Bolivia was $3,000 and the global average was more than $8,000. In these two decades, we advance in many economic and social issues. But of course, as in many other countries, we have a lot of work to do in these next few years. In other information, the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line in PPP is 70%. Inflation, inflation is interesting because at this moment, it is one of the lowest in the world. The main reason for this low inflation in Bolivia are the counter prices, the subsidies to gasoline, gas and diesel, the fixed exchange rate in Bolivia, and of course the smuggling. With the local frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Paraguay, the devaluation of the currencies in these countries, it is easy to mob cheaper goods into Bolivia. And external devs stocks, 40% of the gross national income, total reserves about four billion dollars that represent five months of importation. The forestation, more than 500,000 hectares, it is a critical issue in Bolivia. And tourism, the most rapidly growing sector before the pandemic and a little bit of publicity for my country, Bolivia, it's one of the naturally most beautiful countries in the world. Which is our priority now in SDSM Bolivia? Our main priority is providing information to improve decision making. How? We want to prepare the new version of the Atlas, our idea was present the new version in 2023. However, the census was postponed up to the 2024 by political and technical issues. The data of the census is the most important to calculate the indicators of the SDGs. We expect to have the new version of the Atlas by 2025. At this moment in Bolivia we are living a difficult situation because Santa Cruz, the largest city in Bolivia and the most important in economic terms is an outbreak claiming a new census in 2023. That's why the census is important in Bolivia. The new census will determine the new number of the chairs of the chambers of those senators and deputies, and the most importantly, the further distribution of the fiscal resources. Meanwhile, in the SDSM Bolivia, we are receiving proposals from researchers for new indicators to be included in the next version to fill some gaps in the first version. We also want to provide information for the more than 250 indigenous territories. And this data doesn't exist in Bolivia. In other projects also we are working in the project Orbita. This project Orbita is the first observatory of the sustainable tourism in Bolivia. We are working in global living wage coalitions that that project providing updating estimate of living wage across the world. And we are working on the project inequalities related to the social mobility and equality in Bolivia. Let me show you more about this this municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia. This this Atlas provides a detailed diagnostics related to the performance of every single municipality in Bolivia in the many different dimension of the sustainable development. No, in a multicultural country, one of the most critical choices, of course the inequality in many dimensions. The country doesn't know the current situation, they neither knows the solutions. In this analogy, it is similar to the disease in the medicine, we need to know everything about the disease to implement correctly the trade. With more than 300 municipalities in Bolivia, of course the situation is very different in each municipality. So please, please visit our web page to know more with more detail about the Atlas in Bolivia, which is the most crucial important innovation at this document. The cartograms regular maps and indicators often do not give a good overview of the size of the challenges. The Atlas include cartograms. The area reflects the population size and do not the geographical size. For example, on the left. On the left, you can see the map of Bolivia of all to all the municipalities, the little green, this little green, this little green municipality is La Paz, where I live. In three cities, La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, El Eje Central, Bolivia, here, here, here, leave more than 75% of the population. On the right, you can see a cartogram of the same indicator in terms of the population size. It's very, very interesting. These cartograms give us an accurate dimension of the indicator. Another example in the northeast is Beni, Beni, for example here. Beni is next to Brazil. Beni is one of the nine departments in Bolivia, and Beni is similar to equivalent size, but only leaves 400,000 people. In that class, you can find a cartogram for all dimension of the SDGs in Bolivia. The impacts in terms of citation when academic terms. In Google Scholar, only we have 12 situations, we are a little sad about it, but we are making academic seminars to present the Atlas to many universities and members of the network. Our impact is better in the global SDG reports with 24 hour citation. Here we are very sure that the many politicians read the Atlas to make a decision. This is a good news for us at this moment in the situation in Bolivia in this 2022. In terms of decision making, we know the Atlas is used to to get to guide investment decision of the local international institution, many NGOs use our data because it's the only available. This is to go. Okay. Based on the result of the Atlas in 2022 is the same Bolivia. Decide to focus on tourism. At this moment, at this moment with the financing from IDRC from Canada. We launched the Bolivian Observatory Observatory of Sustainable Tourism, Orbita. We are very sure that tourism is the future of development in Bolivia. The DSN Spain will send an expert on tourism to Bolivia for our Solutions Forum event in November. If you can come to Bolivia, please come. This is a great event on November. As I said before, Bolivia is a multicultural country when there is seven official languages, one of the following years challenges is providing information for the more than 2,250 indigenous territories. The tasks when we know it's complex, but we are pretty sure, pretty sure we can do it the next year. For the need of information for other many reasons, the next version of the Atlas will include a special section for this beauty, beautiful characteristic in my country. And we are sure that it will help to empower indigenous people and also to move forward together was one country to reach the SDGs in 2030. Finally, I would like to show you some pictures of my country, Bolivia. If you don't know Bolivia yet, please visit us. You can see the South Flats, Saladio Uni, La Paz, one of the new seven wonder cities, La Chiquitania, Santa Cruz, the largest city in Bolivia, La Paz, Cochabamba. Bolivia is a beautiful country and of course we need help, we need to improve many, many things, but we are working together to reach these goals to 2030. Thank you, thank you very much for this, for this time. Thank you, Dr. Oscar. It's really, really interesting to hear about the municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia. Thank you for sharing it with us. We have one question. Just one second. The question is, how do you envision orbiter being a case study model or model for other networks to replicate and thus possibly creating a fund regional initiative around sustainable tourism. Sorry. Yes, about sustainable tourism and culture to contribute to the region's post pandemic recovery. In the tourist orbiter project is in the first steps. We only have some projects, many information. We expect that this forum on November give us many, many information and the possibility to share with another networks or projects and results. But the most important thing at this moment in Bolivia is the tourism, the tourism, this industry without emissions. We think it's the most important sector in Bolivia. We know that in Bolivia have many, many natural resources. We have many, many diversity zones, and we expect to increase the mobility of tourists to Bolivia in the next years, and change this dependency to the natural resources and change the growth in Bolivia about the tourism. Thank you, Oscar. I'd like now to invite to the floor, Dr. Monica Pineda, assistant director of the SDG Center for Latin American, the Caribbean. Monica, the floor is yours. Thank you very much and thank you for the invitation. Can you hear me well. Yes, your sound is great. Perfect. So thank you everyone for the invitation and for inviting us to present the Center of Sustainable Development Goals for Latin America and the Caribbean. So my name is Monica Pineda and I'm here representing the Center and all the research team. First of all, like we just want to talk about what is the SDG Center who is based, which is based in University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. So we are one of the five research centers of the university. There are different research centers at the university that are working in agricultural food services and develop of the children in guaranteeing sustainable finances and as the Center of Sustainable Development Goal. We are part of the SDG Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and we are one of the five excellent centers who are located in the different regions of the world. So our general objective is to create knowledge or to generate knowledge that support the implementation of the SDG agenda in the region in the whole Latin America and the Caribbean, and to work with different academic institutions and governments organizations the private sector and the civil society in order that we can't guarantee that the SDG agenda is achieved in the whole region. So we also have different or specific objectives. One is to consolidate a network or a network of researchers that are working and that is related to the Sustainable Development Agenda. We are trying to move not only to think about the SDGs but also we are trying to think about sustainability in the whole concept and trying to analyze how the different dimensions of sustainability play a role in the achievement of the SDGs. In this case what we are trying to analyze in here and what we are trying to create a network on is on researchers that are working on the analysis of economic and environmental actions or the analysis of how the environmental actions improve or not the socio-economic conditions of the populations in the region. So we also want to become a platform to disseminate knowledge. So part of the mission of the center is to create knowledge but also to talk to different policymakers and try to discuss how this knowledge can help policymaking and can really provide opportunities to analyze and to implement policies to achieve the SDG agenda. Another objective that we have in the center is to evaluate policies and programs to achieve the SDGs. And finally we want to participate in the global discussion of the achievement of the 2030 agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean and to show how the region has moved in the right or not and move in the right direction. Sorry. So we have focused on three main areas. So at the beginning of the center we were focused mainly in the climate action but now we are also trying to include these other dimensions of sustainability that included the dimension of wellbeing, focusing on the SDG number one, SDG number three on health and an SDG number ten in inequalities. And also we have a focus in the agro-food systems and how the interaction between the different production of food and the different reduction of the hunger is related to the different indicators, especially those related to climate. Now we say this, as I mentioned in the specific objective, we have three main areas. We generate knowledge, we have a part of impact like trying to do a lot of incidents with the governments. And also we try to participate in a lot of the platforms in order that we can have a conversation about how this knowledge really can create an impact on the policymaker. So we as a center have different strategic products and we are trying to work on how we can implement more products and can create more of these research. So the first and one of the most important products of the center is the SDG index for Latin America and the Caribbean. This SDG index was launched in 2021, it was launched in July of 2022 and includes information for the region, for most of the countries in the region and measure the progress of the region as a whole. We have different countries in the achievement of the SDG agenda, it uses the SDS and methodology to measure the achievement of the SDG in the different regions. We have different SDG documents that are or are aiming or the main objective is to try to have this conversation with policymakers and try to include the evidence and try to provide a lot of evidence on how we are achieving the SDG agenda. Currently we are launching the last one that he was and already provides information on how the carbonization measures have been implemented in Latin America and in Colombia. So all of you are invited to go to the SDG center webpage and download the document. And also we have and we conducted a regional survey on sustainable consumption and the data is available for everyone who wants to analyze it. And it has been anonymized and have information about how what are the consumption products of how people are using or implementing in their own lives the sustainable consumption pattern in seven different countries and these include aspects related with perceptions but also with attitudes about consumption and how we are really implemented this type of aspects in our daily life and these data is available on request and you can conduct your analysis and the right papers or notes on this. One another thing that is really important for us is to promote research and in 2018 we have a 2019 we we made a call of applications for different grants. And we aware the grant to six different research projects to in working on SDG number 11 another two in SDG 13 and another two that analyze the interaction between SDG 200 and SDG 15. And these projects are closed now and the publications will be available on the web page of the center. And this project was are they interaction or aim to really understand what is happening in the region. And one of the things that is important in this project and we need to highlight it is that these research projects are the contribution or are the collaboration of different universities in the region working together in order to understand better how we are reaching or achieving this different messages that were at the focus in here. And one thing that also we have and the center has been focused on this is to create different platforms of different courses in order to incentivize the knowledge and increase the knowledge of the SDG agenda. We have three massive open online courses in Coursera that are free of charge if you want to go and take them. There is one for sustainable development goals like just the general concepts that is another one that is sustainable development goals for entrepreneurship of our companies. And the final one is sustainable development goals but with a view for schools and in these three courses where we aim is to provide information based like what is the basic information that a person needs to know about SDGs but also how you can implement that knowledge in the companies and how so how you can transmit that knowledge to students especially in schools. From the center where we believe that it's important that the team or from the center we believe that the achievement of the SDG agenda is not only for states it includes different stakeholders and us as individuals are one main stakeholder and one actor that needs to really start creating changes and working with the students working with children with adolescents in order that they are from the same what is the SDG agenda and how they can contribute is really important for us. And we have been working in the continued education portfolio and we have been working with students in order that we can produce different courses and so that for students in undergrad and postgrad learning about what is sustainable development and how they can contribute on this or also how the sustainable development concept interacts with other concepts and in the development. And one thing that we have also and we are really keen as well is like how we can incentivize the interaction with different policy makers and how can we move the SDG agenda in the policy arena. So in here what we have been working and participating especially in Colombia that is where we are based. We have been discussing with the different stakeholders with different ministries, the National Development Centre in order that the SDG agenda can be part of the national development plan and also that people continue learning about SDGs and listen to universities and listen to the researchers about how the SDG agenda is being achieved or not and how the different policies can align themselves with the SDG agenda in order that we can guarantee that first no one is leaving behind, but also that there are a lot of policies trying to analyze and understand these different SDGs and how the 70 SDGs interact with each other. And one thing that is really important in here and that I want to mention is that we as a as a center we are part of the multi-stayholder platform for the fulfillment of the SDG agenda in Colombia and we are trying to really promote how the SDG can or should be like some or the goals of the SDG should be transversal or should be included in all the analysis that the policy makers are doing. So just to summarizing here, what we are trying to do is to have a lot of impact in policy makers but also to create research that support that impact. For us as a center it's really important that it's not only about talking about the SDGs but also talking about SDGs with data and SDGs with evidence in order that we can inform policy makers and can help communities, private sector, schools, students to really understand what is their role in the achievement of the SDG agenda and also how they can really incorporate actions in order that they can provide information and evidence on the achievement of the SDGs. We're working with different universities around Latin America and we are really happy to be here and know that there are other universities also doing really amazing things on this. And one thing that is really important is that we as a center also are trying to work with the private sector. The private sector sometimes approach us and tell us like okay, I want to really analyze what I'm doing and I want to analyze how my policies are aligned with the SDG agenda. How can I contribute to the achievement of the different SDGs or how can I at least align everything that I'm doing in order that it's sustainable and really have that mark of the SDGs. So we are also working with them in order that we can provide some information and some guidance on how to align the different objectives, how to measure the impact on the SDG agenda and how really they want to understand this. So I think I'm finished here. Thank you very much. If anyone has any questions I'm here to answer. Thank you. Thank you, Monica, for presenting all of the products developed by you and all of your educational strategies, stakeholder engagement seems like a lot of activities happening. We have three questions and we have a little bit of time so I will go ahead with the three of them. First one is, can you please comment on the center's work with Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil and how it can work with other Brazilian institutions. The second question was if Brazil is one of the seven countries that you mentioned. And the third one is if you have any course and MOOC focus on state bodies. So thank you very much. We have been working with Universidade Estadual de Campinas but we don't have, we have been like a little bit wired. Also the pandemic, we couldn't continue the activities that we were doing with different universities, especially in Brazil, but we have been in contact in the last months and we are really happy and we would like to continue working and finding possibilities of which points we can have in common in order to continue the collaboration that was at the beginning of the center. So I'm going to write my email in the chat so please contact me if you have any questions and if you want to be in contact with the center and see what collaborations we can do. I think Brazil was not included in the survey because it was only included for countries that speak Spanish, but the data is available in there and I felt that some of the results can be transferable. It's not the same and completely aware of that but it's there and it can be used if it's good for you. And what was the final question? Sorry, Isabela. The final question was if you have any course focus on state buddies. No, in this moment we don't have any course that are related with the stakeholder policy makers, we only have for the general one for students and for the private sector. We're trying to do, but this is more like continuous education like this diploma courses we're trying to develop like a micro and micro credential in a sustainable development but these are not focused on government or stakeholders. I think in here in Colombia we have a lot of work on that from the national development program like the institution that is what the minister of development let's say like that. So we haven't focused on that but that can be a good option. Thank you very much. Thank you, Monica. We have one more question if that's okay with you. The question is, could you please comment a little bit about the work the Center for Latin America and the Caribbean has done to implement SDG 3 in the area. So we as a center where what we are doing. Haven't done anything. Let's let me think. And specifically an SDG number three we're having focus ourselves like currently what we are doing is to try to analyze first the data on SDG number three for the region. How we have achieved SDG or not in the in the different region in the report of the SDGs for Latin America we focus on SDG number three and we were like analyzing how the pandemic report. The COVID-19 pandemic reduces the achievement of the SDG number three and the different goals. And what we are doing is to try to focus a little bit more the research that we are doing as a center in SDG number three so we are working with the School of Medicine at the University of Los Angeles. We are trying to increase the number of data or the amount of data that we have is aggregated by SDG number three. We are also collaborating here inside in Colombia doing different analysis on the achievement of the SDG number three, especially for big cities. So we participate in the there is a report for Bogota como vamos to analyze how the city is moving forward in the achievement of different SDGs and we as a center work with the School of Medicine analyzing the data for SDG number three. So we are also like really open to have research on that and we are part and we have been working in different policy groups with the Lancet Commission on the impact of climate change on health in order to analyze how the different indicators have been included by the Lancet Commission that are related with green spaces with access to the mosquito or banger prevalence, how those policies have been implemented in the region and especially in the tropical countries and how this has been affected the achievement of the SDG number three. So those are the areas that we are working and conducting research in order to contribute in the analysis of SDG number three. Thank you very much, Monica, we will now proceed with Sonya Neves, Sonya Neves sorry Sonya will talk about as DSN USA a network for advancing the SDGs through collaboration in the United States. I'm dodging some afternoon light here in New York City. I'm just going to quickly share my screen. Great, I think this seems to be working. Start at the very beginning though. So I'm Sonya Navy. I am the program and outreach coordinator for SDSN USA, which is the SDSN network in the United States we are a network for advancing the SDGs through collaboration. A little bit of background on our network. We build pathways for sustainable development in the US by mobilizing research outreach collective action and global cooperation. And we have been around since December 2018 but growing ever since then we're now over 180 members kind of across the country and 46 states, as well as DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. And 73% of our members are universities or university departments or centers, meaning the three fourths of our members are our universities and one fourth are think tanks, networks, NGOs, etc. In order to fulfill our mission we facilitate and lead coalitions. To address sustainability in the US we build sophisticated practical systems for assessing progress. That's our, our data or flagship reports the US state and cities, SDG indices, as well as reporting on racial and economic disparity in the US, and some other kind of thematic reporting. We three facilitate public awareness education and engagement among our membership, and as well as the public in the US. And we link these efforts with policymakers and community leaders throughout the US to rely to result in lasting change. Just a little background on how the US is doing on the SDGs we ranked 32 out of 193 on the 2020 Sustainable Development Index released by SDSN, and we ranked 16 in the World Happiness Index. Also released by SDSN we could be doing better we're the only OACD country and one of five countries total that have not completed a voluntary national review. There is significant variation across states and cities in the US on acknowledgement and progress on the SDGs. This map here is from the 2021 US Sustainable Development Report. As you can see all states have work to do here. There's no green on this map green meaning SDG achievement. Oh, sorry. Sorry, sorry to interrupt you. Is it possible for you to make a slideshow mode, because we are seeing the next slide and. Oh no, we're seeing your notes. Is this correct. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. I did not know. Um, and then here you can see that. Wait, let me. Is this correct. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, so as you can see here, we are falling behind on the SDGs. We have some yellow and some orange meaning challenges remain and major challenges remain, but no green. And then here is our, our racial inequality index. So this is mapping a CG delivery to the least serve racial communities in the US. Well, it's from the in the red report and we call it that because as you can see most of the US is in the red. The least serve racial communities are served three times less than white communities in the US or the most serve racial communities. And no states, even the highest performing states, which you can see on this map or Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, none of them are even more than 50% on the way to SDG achievement based on race. And then here you can see a little bit about how we are tracking the SDGs. We go from the SDG to the target to the indicator level. So SDG five is to achieve gender equality and empowerment in girls and so in our sustainable development reports we use indicators to track that progress so for one indicator for CG five is the gender wage gap. And as you can see in both of these charts, the cities and states in the US are falling far behind other OECD countries. In the worst locations in the US, it's really drastic, a higher wage gender wage gap, obviously, being worse and, and the worst performing US cities performing quite high and then on the right even in our best locations, not reaching the levels of other OECD countries. Here are indices we use the global index released by SDSN to compare ourselves against other countries, and then we do reporting at the state and city level, as well as the county level and local level. So on the left is our regular, our annual flagship state index the US sustainable development report released in 2021. Near the bottom is our US cities index the last one was released in 2019, but with one coming on the way next year and early 2023. There are other reports on the right to reports disaggregated by race, one on the left, the zero carbon action plan, which is currently a national plan but we are working to regionalize it to bring it to cities and regions to help them provide them a policy framework for decarbonization. As I mentioned before, we are working to link these efforts with policymakers and community leaders throughout the US and we have several examples of that. On the left is the White House Conference on hunger, nutrition and health, our zero hunger pathways project, which is a working group that our members are involved in. We have a series of dialogues over the last year, culminating in recommendations that were submitted to the White House Conference on hunger health and nutrition. And actually at that conference President Joe Biden did make a commitment to zero hunger by 2030 so it was really great for our members to have contributed to that. This is one of our efforts to localize the zero carbon action plan that I mentioned in the previous slide, we contributed to a CSN contribute to the San Diego regional decarbonization framework, bringing the recommendations from our zero carbon action to a county level. And we're hoping that through the lessons that we learned from that experience to bring a creative guide that can help other cities and counties do the same thing. And then sustain SC sustain South Carolina is a really great example of one of our partners using our reports to help advance their work at the local level sustain SC kind of brings together businesses. And local stakeholders to invest in sustainability in South Carolina. And they use our sustainable development report that shows where South Carolina compares to other states in the US as well as where it's doing well and where it lags behind on the SDGs, and bringing it to their local level they were able to identify places that were needed to do be doing more work, and also to kind of use it as an incentive or to get a little competitive with other states to show that they could be doing better than other states in their region that are were higher achieving on the SDGs. So this is just a quick list of SDSN USA is current initiatives, ranging from Z at the ZR zero carbon consortium doing work on climate action, our diversity equity and justice working group, or zero hunger working group that I mentioned has run a series of dialogues on working on some policy recommendations, tracking progress on the SDGs there are indices, SDG and Paris climate localization, SDSN youth USA mission 4.7 education for all which is a recent working group that is meeting regularly to create a community of practice for our members and then plans to host a conference next year on transforming education. There's lots of ways that members engage with SDSN USA, we have monthly networking meetings. Those look like informal coffee chats where members are really just able to network with one another and we receive updates on all of their initiatives. Our annual networking network meeting all members are invited to webinars and project launches, thematic dialogues and seminars, working group convenings and other events. And then these are different ways that our members are engaging on the SDGs at their own institutions. So, they are reorienting programs of learning engaging student leadership and scholarship establishing research centers grants etc for cross sectoral programs they're integrating priorities across administrative offices we see especially at facilities sustainability offices planning levels. They also organize local community conversations on the SDGs we really try to emphasize and amplify those community university partnerships that are happening in our network. They're publicly reporting and engaging on the goals and I will talk a little bit more about that in a moment, and then proactively addressing injustice and equities, as well as actively engaging with our initiatives and our network. I want to give a couple of partner and member spotlights. So you can hear a little bit more about the great work being done by our members. The first is the Hawaii green growth local 2030 hub. It was it they conducted the aloha bench plus benchmark report which is a voluntary local review for Hawaii. One of the first in our country. The first one was established in 2020 and I know that they have updated it since. And this was just a way to a comprehensive look at how Hawaii is doing across the SDGs, and they decided their indicators by convening stakeholders and, and, and, you know, agreeing upon those indicators. And then they also have the aloha plus goals scorecard, which is also keeping it's a data dashboard that's hosted on the Hawaii government's website that also kind of shows where they are on track on certain indicators and where they need improvement. And it's available for the public to to use and it has a lot of buy in from public private and government stakeholders. The first member spotlight that I wanted to show is the voluntary university reviews to have been conducted so far to my knowledge, the first being the first ever in the world, the Carnegie Mellon University Voluntary University review. The first was done in 2020 with UC Davis conducting a voluntary university review soon after in 2021 and Carnegie Mellon also updating theirs in 2021. So a comprehensive look at the SDGs across different departments across research education and university activities that really helps the university see how they're working on the SDGs what different work is being done, helping break down silos at the university campus. And then again to identify places that can be improved. Finally, the solve climate by 2030 program out of Bard College deserves a spotlight because they are doing their local they're doing local and global work on climate. They hosted a worldwide climate teaching first in 2020 and have now done one each year with one coming up in March of 2023. And this was, this is a really interesting program they have over 1000 universities, colleges, K through 12 institutions high schools involved in a single day of climate teaching, but each hosting their own in their own communities. And the snap shows how global their reach is they have schools from all over the world involved, bringing in experts university professors, advocates students to kind of bring a local context to the to climate, but also convening on the same day to show how this is both a global national and local issue. Yeah, and that's just a snapshot of some what some of our members are doing. Thank you so much for having me here. And I'm willing to take any questions. Thank you, Sonia. That was really interesting. So, there is one question. So Brazil, Brazil's energy is mostly renewable coming from hydroelectrics but many times they're so sweet associated with social problems, people being removed from the territories, etc. The reality is different from the United States but it's still, there is a need to invest in in this transition to a more sustainable energy. So do you see any is as the SN do you know if they're working with the energy transition in Brazil to do a work similar to the one that you did for the United States. That's really interesting. I don't know what connections have been made so far but the regional decarbonization framework that I spoke about should be able to be applied to regional context across the world it's, but it's taking a lot of information that we have from creating one for San Diego County and the challenges and and bringing together what stakeholders there are kind of at that county level counties of course include multiple cities, multiple local governments. And so just taking into consideration all of that. We're hoping that it can be applied elsewhere so I'm sure that it could be shared with the Brazil context as soon as it's available. I know that we're bringing it currently to cities in the US but I do see this as something that could be applied worldwide yeah. Thank you Sonya. That's, that's really interesting. And now we, we are coming to, to the end of our session so I'd like to give the floor to Dr. Tassio Mauro de Campos chair of STS and Brazil for closing remarks. Hey, I do hear me. We can, but we cannot see you. Well, let me see if we can start. So good afternoon to all participants of this third STS and Brazil conference. Dr. Tassio one second. I can hear something like your sound we can hear you but it's vibrating a little bit. Let me see if I can. Is it okay now. Oh yes. Way better thank you. Can you hear me. Yes, perfectly. Dr. Tassio. Yes, we were able to hear you now. But now, now it's on mute. Dr. Tassio you're on mute. Can you hear me. Yes. Yes, we can. And okay now. Yes, we can hear you. Yeah, there is a background noise here. This conference was really organized with the STS and global as part of the real plus 30 form. Can you hear me. Yes, I think you're good now. Yes. Okay. I would like to thank Professor Marcel Gattas, our vice Hector of Development and Innovation, who is representing our Hector, father, Anderson Antonio Pedrozo in this conference. But a short talk indicated the interest of who can hear you not only on keeping, but also increasing the partnership with the SDSS and such partnership is in line with the Laudato C in particular, of Pope Francisco, which somehow summarizes the missions of both who can hear you, and that's the SDSS and on the care with the common one. In addition, we are grateful by the participation of the president, and one of the founders of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who was just in front of the Brazilian embassy in home. I must say here that I had the pleasure to first meet Professor Sachs at the Planet Under Pressure Conference that occurred in London in March 2012 as part of the preparation for the Rio Plus 20 conference that happened here in January and June of 2012. Not surprisingly, Professor Sachs was able, in a short talk, to provide to us a general picture on aspects related to sustainable development, among other things, stressing the relevance of the SDSS and within the device diversity of actions supported or developed by the United Nations. We are particularly joyful today because your talk occurred as far as I am concerned, exactly in the months that the SDSM becomes 10 years old. We also'd like to thank all the panelists that taught us on the relevant subject of partnership cooperation funding, Alice Guimarães and Leonie Gratikov from the German Agents for International Corporate Cooperation Operations, Patrick Walsh from the SDG Academy and Marcel Garcia Haro from the SDSM Secretariat. Of course, we cannot forget our dear friend and Vice President for Americas, Emma Torres, who, unfortunately, was unable to be among us today. Additionally, we are grateful to our colleagues panelists from SDSM Bolivia, Oscar de Molina Tererina, from Colombia at the Center for Latin America, Monica Tinigia, and from the SDSM USA, Sonja Nade. We shared with us their experience on dealing with aspects related to university mobilization and interactions within the context of the United Nations SDGs. Special thanks are due to the SDM team, coordinated by Giovanna Bruna, our local manager from New York, and especially today to our moderator, Isabella Leite. We are also grateful to the executive committee of SDSM Brazil, here represented by Rodrigo Medeiros, who introduced to us a brief history of the development of the SDSM Brazil and gave insight on future perspectives. Last but not least, we are deeply grateful to NIMA, the Environmental Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Okirio, who shares a secretary of SDM Brazil at its newly named Luis Felipe Guadales Rego Environmental Education Station. Special thanks are also due to Karina Flossi and Salia Kufuri, who took care of the not so easy job of simultaneous translations. Furthermore, we acknowledge the Pukirio Communication Team and Professor Sidney Pasionik, head of our Technical Scientific Center, by their support in internal-external divulgation of the conference. Finally, I would like to take the Rio de Janeiro Research Supporting Agents, FAPERG, for its financial support to this conference, which does not end today. Indeed, this event will run for two more days, comprising virtual meetings and a further day of in-person meeting with the universities that are members of the SDM Brazil, aiming to identify synergies in teaching, research and technological development. In order to strengthen partnerships and to build a co-operative work among our institutions. Finishing this part of our 2012 SDSC and Brazil conference, I would like to state that, regardless of the results of the next presidential election, the SDSC and Brazil will work hard in the direction of reaching the 17 SDGs targets. Furthermore, we thank all the audience that has been following us. I wish you a good day to all of you. Thank you, Isabela. Thank you, Dr. Tazo. Thank you everyone.