United Nations University Workshop

 On 5th, October, a special workshop with staff from United Nations University was held by UNU-IASOUIK.  Yuto Kitamura and Eri Yamazaki came as moderators.  Mr. Kitamura gave a lecture on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and Ms. Yamazaki instructed the students in the workshop.

After the lecture, the students were divided into groups and discussed three themes:

＊What is “Sustainable Society” in Japan?

＊What is “Sustainable Society” in Kanazawa?

＊How will society have changed by 2030 and what’s their role in society?

After discussion, they shared their opinions with one another.

[the participants’ comments]

＊According to the lecture, the United Nations picked up 17 goals and divided them into small parts.  I want to learn about their contents.  After the lecture, I thought about “Sustainable Japan and Kanazawa” and found it difficult to connect the lecture with those goals.  But by sharing our opinions with members of my group, we found that we can connect “Sustainable Japan and Kanazawa” with SDGs.  As a result, we found what we should do in terms of “rich water.”

＊I deeply felt that thinking about solutions for abstract problems is very difficult but very important. 

＊All the participants took part in the discussion very actively and expressed their opinions very well.  Some students said that that was the first time to think about such a serious problem, and that they could do something to solve it.