The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity, addressing all the problems we currently live with in order to ensure a pleasant future for all the next generations and improve our current quality of life.
With this, the concept of “BEING SUSTAINABLE” emerges with greater power and is having greater reach and power on a daily basis. We all want to be sustainable, but... what does it mean to be sustainable? To be sustainable is to be able to develop and incorporate initiatives that seek to achieve social welfare, environmental balance and economic growth.
Therefore, it is in our hands to act to provide a healthy environment to the new generations, promoting in them the ideals of sustainability. However, there is a segregated perspective about this term “Sustainability” as there are people who see it only from an environmental framework, while in reality it encompasses a more global and transversal aspect, applied to all professional areas where they can have a more sustainable approach and linked to the fulfillment of the SDGs, such as:
Thus, UEES SOSTENIBLE arises, this club has as its main purpose to impact the principles of sustainability throughout the campus, to form a responsible culture of consumption and production through various campaigns, activities, meetings, conferences with special guests, related to awareness and strategic forms of environmental resolution, where there will be extensive participation and contribution about projects to implement, useful information to improve environmental management and the perception of sustainability on campus, in order to instill a more conscious and committed to the conservation of the environment university environment.
The club currently has 24 active participants in meetings and activities.
| Student | Career | Cargo |
|---|---|---|
| Rafaella Schneider | Environmental Engineering | Main Club Coordinator |
| Natalia Arboleda | Environmental Engineering | Vice Club Coordinator |
| Team | Cargo |
|---|---|
| René Rodriguez | Dean of Engineering |
| Francisco Alemán | Dean of Student and Professional Management |
| Natalie Wong | Dean of Architecture |
| Angelike Paez | Dean of International Studies |
| Christian Rosero | Innovation Director |
| Daniela Hidalgo | Director of Accreditation |
| Cristian Martinez | Coordinator of Student and Professional Management |
| José Miguel Iturralde | Sustainable Development Teacher |
| Harry Veintimilla | Administrative Coordinator School of Environmental Sciences. |
| Priscila Molina | Sustainable Development Teacher |
