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Global Goals Month celebrates awareness of, and our contribution to, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A shared worldwide commitment across academia, community and governments to accelerate action on the SDGs.

Visit our interactive Global Goals Month exhibition showcasing some of the ways the UTS community is contributing and making an impact. Explore ways you can get involved. Located in the Level 4 Foyer of UTS Building 1, directly off Broadway, the event runs all month and is open to all students, staff and visitors. 

What’s happening 


  • Join our Chats for the Goals series for round-circle conversations with UTS experts and other SDG-related events
  • Participate in mix-n-match activations in the exhibition space with images you think best capture individual SDGs
  • Enter a photo competition
  • Contribute ideas and creative flair to the SDG colouring-in poster
  • Watch short videos on SDG-related research and community partnerships
  • Snap a selfie with friends against the SDG curtain wall, post using the hashtag #UTSGlobalGoalsMonth
  • See the suggestions board for more ways to get involved

Upcoming Events

Past Events

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    Global Goals Month Events

    September 2024

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  • Photo competition tile background

    Photo Competition

    Open to UTS students, staff and alumni

    Competition closed
  • ggm tile orange

    Have your Students Work with Community to Meet SDGs

    9 September

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  • two minds

    Finding Agency in an Emotionally Charged Time

    10 September

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  • air pollution

    Innovative Solutions for Fighting Air Pollution

    10 September

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  • seahorses

    Super Seahorses

    11 September

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  • air pollution

    Industrial Decarbonisation & the Circular Bioeconomy

    11 September

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  • Global Goals Month shapes on blue background

    Global Exchange and Global Short Programs Pop Up

    11 September

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  • women writing

    Social Justice 101

    11 September

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  • finger print

    Digital ID: Reducing Risks & Boosting Benefits

    12 September

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  • Women walking

    On Sundays, We Play

    12 September

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  • Climate protest

    Climate contestation: mobilisations, intersections, possibilities

    13 September

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  • insulation install

    Sustainable Homes

    17 September

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  • Australian roof with solar panels

    Accelerating Your Home's Renewable Transition

    17 September

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  • Global Goals Month shapes on green background

    SDG Scavenger Hunt

    18 September

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  • clothes rack

    Fashion Forward

    18 September

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  • global goals tile black

    Careers within Sustainability

    19 September

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  • woman walking

    Navigating the system and finding your power

    19 September

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  • women doing maths

    What is Appreciative Inquiry?

    19 September

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  • women learning

    Learning to Manage Conflict the Social Impact Way

    19 September

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  • bushfire

    Extreme Weather Disaster Simulation

    24 September

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  • Stethoscope wrapped around a globe

    Healthcare Leadership for Sustainable Development

    24 September

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  • pile of plastic

    Plastics & the Circular Economy

    26 September

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  • woman choosing

    Humanity in Focus: Perspectives on People and SDGs Forum

    30 September

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  • people doing craft

    Mindful Mending with Vita Cochran

    Recurring event: Thursdays 5 - 26 September

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  • origami

    Make a Moth

    Origami art from recycled books

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  • Veronica Wong: The world that we live in is increasingly globally connected, and the issues that we face, the challenges in the world are not faced in isolation. Issues that are affecting Australia, like climate change, they are affecting other countries, inflation, economic pressures, they're affecting other countries as well. The SDGs or the Sustainable Development Goals are a great structured framework for us to understand what these issues are, especially how they're interconnected because none of them stand alone.

    Aaron Ngan: Prior to the SDGs being created like you would have, it would have been difficult to find people to disagree that, you know, poverty is an issue, education is an issue, and all of these things individually on there is an issue. But what the SDGs provide is a level of rigor, a level of focus that allows everyone to kind of get on board with, wow, this is something which is important and a large part of the world agrees on.

    Veronica Wong: And help any member of the community learn how they can try and use them and leverage them to make a difference.

    Vedant Patkar: And then they can make personal choices. They can also inform others of what they can do to improve their own condition and also benefit the bigger world around them.

    Aaron Ngan: When we can start to pull together the minds and the ideas of a large group of people in that way, with that focus, that's really going to be what it takes.

2023 Events

  • Line art of two facing heads with light bulb and heart in front of brain

    Finding Agency in an Emotionally Charged Time

    12 September

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  • Scuba diver in the Great Barrier Reef

    Coral Nurture Program

    12 September

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  • global goals tile black

    Your Career in Sustainability

    13 September

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  • Image of women sewing in a textile factory

    Decent Work and Just Transition

    14 September

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  • Student placing bottle in recycling bin at UTS

    Re: Gen Tomorrow Forum

    16 September

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  • Algae tank bubble

    Dawn of a New Era

    19 September

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  • Women in Vanuatu sitting in shaded area

    Gender equality & climate action in the Pacific

    20 September

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  • View of Earth from space

    Pathways to Net Zero

    21 September

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