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Enhancing the impact of your institution’s sustainability efforts
Why Sustainable Development Goals?
To demonstrate a clear commitment to a greener, fairer, more equitable society, today’s leading higher education institutions now require a clear strategic direction to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
THE’s Sustainability Strategy Framework provides institutions with a four-stage end-to-end solution to assess the impact of an institution’s efforts in achieving the UN’s 17 recognized SDGs.
The SDGs are integrated into research programmes, national and international policies and even election campaigns globally. Higher education institutions are a crucial pillar of the pursuit of the SDGs.
THE’s Sustainability Strategy Framework
Data-informed strategic guidance to empower your sustainability and impact.
Diagnostics
A data-led approach to evaluate sustainability efforts and identify strengths, gaps and opportunities.
Development
Creation of a sustainability strategy to help forge SDG research partnerships, attract talent and develop a strong brand offering with high quality, engaging content.
Engagement
Through targeted sustainability branding and international events, this phase will build your brand reputation and global visibility with key higher education stakeholders.
Measurement
Assess the impact and effectiveness of the solutions and activities undertaken, optimising performance for sustainable growth and institutional strategy.
Offering sector-wide benefits
- Improving sustainability research
- Identifying SDG partnership opportunities
- Building a strong brand and reputation to highlight sustainability commitment
- Developing sustainability strategy
- Attracting students and developing sustainability programmes
- Measuring student outcomes in sustainability education
Universities
- Formulating policies, practices and the strategic direction of the HE sector
- Tracking the sustainability efforts of institutions & aligning SDGs with country-specific goals
- Building a compelling narrative around a country’s sustainability efforts to attract students, staff and partners
- Measuring national student sustainability outcomes
Governments
- Establishing your brand as a thought leader in sustainability among HE institutions
- Using universities as a test-bed in providing solutions to enhance sustainability
- Showcasing your commitment to the SDGs by demonstrating the outcomes of your sustainability efforts
- Measuring national student sustainability outcomes
Corporates
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Diagnostics
A data-led approach to evaluate sustainability efforts and identify strengths, gaps and opportunities. This includes training of staff and faculty to create buy-in across institutions on SDG priorities, strategy and implementation.
- Sustainability audit
- Internal stakeholder analysis
- Sustainability Strategy Academy workshops
- Impact Rankings Data Assessment
- Sustainability brand discovery
Development
Creation of a sustainability strategy to help forge SDG research partnerships, attract talent and develop a strong brand offering with high quality, engaging content.
- Roadmap creation
- SDG research partnerships & talent attraction
- Sustainability brand development
- Bespoke digital content production
See example video series from Lingnan University
See example podcast series from Liverpool University
Engagement
Through targeted sustainability branding and international events, this phase will build your brand reputation and global visibility with key higher education stakeholders.
- Sustainability branding campaigns
- International sustainability event presence
View THE’s events series here
Watch a recap of GSDC 2024
- Global Sustainable Development Congress (GSDC)
- Green Skills Conference
- THE Sustainability Forums
Measurement
Assess the impact and effectiveness of the solutions and activities undertaken, optimising performance for sustainable growth and institutional strategy.
- Access to THE’s SDG Impact Dashboard
- Digital brand analysis
- Quarterly ROI tracking
- Brand and campaign statistics
SDG Impact Dashboard
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Our 5-step Management Process
Your dedicated team of THE consultants will work collaboratively with you and your key stakeholders throughout the project – from Diagnostics through to Measurement
Project Initiation
We’ll allocate a project team and agree the project scope, timescales and ways of working
Define
We’ll agree competitor set, panel specifications, and messaging/brand statements to test.
Research
We’ll design, build, and test surveys or topic guides to deploy to our agreed audiences
Analyse
We’ll review results from surveys and interviews, to identify trends and themes
Report
We’ll review results from surveys and interviews, to identify trends and themes
Some of our valued clients
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The University of Newcastle
Australia
UoN colleagues have been able to identify what top institutions are doing (or not) in relation to each specific SDG and subsequently drive UoN’s strategy and alignment towards the UN SDGs.
Lingnan University
Hong Kong
THE’s Impact Rankings are important as they play a pivotal role in driving the university’s student and staff recruitment efforts, helping to attract more research funding and enhancing people’s trust and perception of the university.
Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research & Innovation
Thailand
[the collaboration with THE] has contributed towards a change of mindset and culture among Thai universities so they are no longer afraid of evaluating themselves and of reflecting on what they are doing and how they can improve in the future.
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- Sustainability audit
- Sustainability Strategy Academy
- Impact Rankings analysis
- Sustainability brand discovery
- Roadmap creation
- SDG partnerships
- SDG talent attraction
- Sustainability brand development & digital content production
- Targeted sustainability campaigns
- Event presence (inc. Global Sustainable Development Congress, Green Skills Conference)
- SDG Impact Dashboard
- Digital brand analysis
- Campaign statistics
- Sustainability audit
- Sustainability Strategy Academy
- Impact Rankings analysis
- Sustainability brand discovery
- Roadmap creation
- SDG partnerships
- SDG talent attraction
- Sustainability brand development & digital content production
- Targeted sustainability campaigns
- Event presence (inc. Global Sustainable Development Congress, Green Skills Conference)
- SDG Impact Dashboard
- Digital brand analysis
- Campaign statistics