Wageningen Global Sustainability Programme
The Wageningen Global Sustainability Programme is a programme funded by Wageningen University investing in interdisciplinary research and education projects in close collaboration with partners in low and middle income countries. Each project has to indicate its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
New name
The name is new, the idea is older. Since 2000 WUR is investing in interdisciplinary Research and Education through the INREF programme. After a positive evaluation the Executive Board decided to invest in a fifth phase running from 2024-2030, but with a new name, the Wageningen Global Sustainability Programme. This new name gives a better indication of what the programme stands for, global sustainable development.
Global sustainability
The INREF programme has been active in 28 countries with more than 250 people obtaining their PhD degree within the programme. The collaboration with local partners is an essential element of the programme, aimed at local capacity and societal impact.
Sustainability
Each project within the programme has to indicate its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 17 goals for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. WUR is strongly committed to contributing to these goals through its sustainable operations and premises, but most of all through its research and education programmes. And we have built up a strong track record over many years, says Rector Magnificus Carolien Kroeze.
Projects
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Responsible life-science innovations for development in the digital age: EVOCA
- EVOCA (Environmental Virtual Observatories For Connective Action) is a collaborative interdisciplinary project of Wageningen University and seven... -
FOREFRONT Program
- Nature’s benefits in agro-forest frontiers: linking actor strategies, functional biodiversity and ecosystem services. -
Traditional fermented foods to promote food and nutrition security in Africa
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Smart Indonesian Agriculture (Smart-In-Ag)
- This programme aims to introduce and expand SMART farming techniques in Indonesian agriculture, more specifically fish and dairy production, and to... -
Scenario Evaluation for Sustainable Agro-forestry Management (SESAM)
- Among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) three broad groups coexist: A) articulating demand for further human resource appropriation, B)... -
RIVER COMMONS: Building research for development and education on sustainable co-governance of river commons
- Together with an inspiring alliance of scientific, policy, activists and grassroots organizations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, the RIVER... -
ECO2 project: human wildlife interactions & conservation
- This INREF programme, ECO2, investigates, analyses, and tests key ideas for integrating ecology and socio-economics and the possibilities for... -
INREEF: Interdisciplinary program to build the resilience of marine protected areas in tourism destinations
- Fifty percent of the world’s reefs have disappeared due to global climate change and local stressors from fishing and pollution. Yet there still... -
OIL-CLiPS
- An interdisciplinary research program unravelling the causes of disease outbreaks in oil palm affected by changes in climate and farmer practices