Between 16-19th June, we were in Istanbul at the Global Sustainable Development Congress (GSDC). This engagement formed part of our role in co-convening the UN Higher Education Sustainability Initiative, Student Action Group along with 16 other global student- and youth-led organizations.

At the GSDC, we co-organized the panel session and workshop 'from frameworks to practice - unlocking the potential of sustainability competencies in higher education', in partnership with Sulitest, oikos International, oikos consulting, All-Africa Students' Union and European Students' Union. The session looked at a range of competency frameworks for embedding the Sustainable Development Goals into higher education curricula, and most importantly, engaged students, institutional leaders and wider sector stakeholders in analyzing alignment between the objectives of the various frameworks, successful examples of their implementation and barriers to wider deployment.

Through collaboration with event organizers, Times Higher Education, we also enabled student participation from across our member networks in a range of panels and plenaries across the congress

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