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Open School of Sustainable Development (for Russian-speaking)

Abstract: 
The aim of the project is to spread ideas of sustainable development as a concept for the further development of society in Russia, Russian-speaking countries and the world community as a whole. We think it is necessary to deliver information to everyone who wants to know more and be a responsible inhabitant of the planet Earth or simply a Global citizen. Open School of Sustainable Development functions as youth volunteer-based organization. In 5 years we: put together 20 permanent activists who are younger than 30 years old and more than 400 volunteers from all over the world; have more than 10 000 subscribers and online campaigns in social networks; created a full-fledged massive online course on sustainable development; conducted two massive online campaigns on SDGs and attracted more than 70 partners from Russian-speaking countries; we are Coordinating Organization for International Sustainability Test Sulitest in Russian; published more than 50 articles on sustainable development and SDGs; translated 10 online SDG Academy courses; conducted many workshops and seminars on SDGs publicly and online and more.
Author: 
Nalya Rakhimova
Year: 
2018
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Country: 
United States
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