Universities should be stewards of our intellectual, scientific and cultural legacy, but should also give a voice to future generations. In 2015, UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development - including 17 Sustainable development goals (SDG s). These goals require that we think anew when we structure our educational programs and reach out to our collaborative partners. These goals will also inspire our research in many years tocome.
The SDG s are meant to reinvigorate and organize our efforts to grapple with the global challenges within the realms of health and social justice as well as energy and climate. These new goals build on the eight Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000. But the SDG s cover more ground than the latter, and they demand a lot of the global governance systems that have to break away from old silos and ensure that the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability are seen in due context. Notably, it is imperative that health and environmental issues are not subordinated to economicgoals.
This is one of the questions that we discussed at length in our Lancet-Univ
