Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

Hannah Satlow
Project coordinator of the web platform Education2030
and education officer at Baobab
© Baobab
Partnership for education in practice
As the SDGs were developed in
2015, a point of criticism was that
they were more of a wish list
than an action plan. So many hopes and
concerns are compiled in the document. As
an educational advisor, I clearly rediscovered
my dreams for Austria and all students
in SDG 4. Baobab has a library on site for
education and consultancy. We work on the
issues of globalisation, sustainability, diversity
and language education. The concept of
Global Learning and Citizenship Education
has been a longstanding basis of our work.
have developed an idea to combine these
offers on one web platform. In the process,
more organisations started to cooperate
with Forum Umweltbildung. This undertaking
is of fundamental value, because
until now Global Learning and Education
for Sustainable Development was not
much combined in Austria. The cooperation
supported by funding authorities
helped to reflect on the understanding of
education, similarities and differences. The
result is the materials and offers which can
be found on the web platform and which
comply with the same quality criteria.
It is SDG 4.7 where we can especially clearly
see the mission for our work : The support
for students to acquire the “necessary
knowledge and qualifications to promote
sustainable development”.
It has shown me that good partnerships are
essential for a fair and sustainable world. A
great added value for education has materialised
thanks to the cooperation, where
we think in a networking manner, critically
In Austria, there are many institutions
which work on the SDGs. Together with
our long-standing partner organisations
question the attitudes and opinions, and
thus, live Global Citizenship Education and
Education for Sustainable Development.
Südwind, Welthaus Graz and KommEnt we
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