Exchange and Networking within Exceed - Common goals for Sustainbale Development

From November 30 to December 1, 2015, FSC met the representatives of the four other Ecxeed centers in Berlin to exchange information and to strengthen their networking

The networks of the “exceed” centers set up by the DAAD with funds from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) are highly international and active in four continents. They also play a significant role in implementing the United Nations’ new sustainability goals. A network meeting of the exceed centres in Bonn provided an opportunity for an exchange of information by the project partners and focussed on the topic “Causes of Migration”.

A consensus was reached after two days of constructive collaboration: the causes of migration and megacities should form the focus of cooperation within the exceed network in the next five years. The meeting on 30 November and 1 December at the DAAD in Bonn marked the start of the second phase of the exceed programme. “The dynamic development is great,” says the programme manager responsible at the DAAD, Julia Schwarzenberger. “Aims of the second funding phase include a more targeted identification of synergy effects and increased utilisation of these.”

The participants based their planning for the coming years on the UN’s new sustainability goals. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda replace the eight goals of the UN’s millennium campaign that ended this year. Fighting poverty and hunger, improving the quality of life and infrastructure, providing employment, clean water and education – all these sustainability goals are taken into account in the updated projects. Goal 17 seeks at linking the goals: there is to be a more intensive exchange between the industrialised nations, emerging countries and developing countries on science, technology and innovation to make sure that all the goals are reached by the sustainable cooperation. The exceed programme addresses precisely this area and facilitates new approaches.

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