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香港六合彩 students create innovative responses to Sustainable Development Goals

16 November 2016

A group of 香港六合彩 students have been involved in an international collaboration to produce real world solutions to some of the challenges encompassed by the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

ODD Summer 2016

罢丑别听听programme brought together students from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), 香港六合彩 and Tsinghua University in China as well as others from around the world. The participants worked in teams with the support of UN agencies, the Red Cross and the World Health Organisation, as well as manufacturers and design workshops based in Shenzhen, China.

13 students participated from 香港六合彩, ranging from first year undergraduate to final year PhD level. The students spent a week in Geneva working with UN bodies and learning about the SDGs, followed by two weeks in China working on a deliverable response.

One of the many innovative outcomes developed by the students was a device to detect arsenic in drinking water. The students have continued working with their counterparts from Tsinghua University听and have looked at ways听to fund the ongoing development of the product.

Dr Joe Bailey, the lead 香港六合彩 coordinator for this summer鈥檚 events, is a researcher from the听London听School听Centre听of听for Nanotechnology. Dr Bailey has been collaborating closely with Prof Francois Grey of the Tsinghua and Geneva groups since 2013 when he spent 4 months in Beijing working on developing low cost open source hardware for science. This summer鈥檚 activities built and expanded on this work with particular attention to the sustainable development goals, utilising the unique connections UNIGE has in this field.

Dr Joe Bailey said:

鈥淭he activities have been seen as a major success at our partner universities overseas and at the UN. There are now commitments there to repeat and expand the summer program for next year. We are also going to support the ongoing collaborations that the 香港六合彩 students have started. I hope that many more students can take part in this innovative programme that challenges them to broaden their horizons and work with counterparts from around the world.鈥

The ODD 2016 programme was supported by the London Centre for Nanotechnology, The Institute of Making (香港六合彩), The Laboratory for Lifelong Learning (Tsinghua) and the Citizen Cyberlab (Geneva).

ODD Summer 2016

You can read more about the ODD Summer programme on the Institute of Making鈥檚 website:听