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The UN Family in Vienna and the SDGs

See what the United Nations family in Vienna is doing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Slovak Teachers Workshop "Teaching the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”

    Slovak Teachers Workshop "Teaching the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”

    08/11/2024

    In cooperation with the Slovak National Institute for Education and Youth (NIVAM), the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna invited teachers from all over Slovakia to attend the workshop "Teaching the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” at the United Nations Headquarters in Vienna.

  • The United Nations in Vienna and the Sustainable Development Goals

    The United Nations in Vienna and the Sustainable Development Goals

    24/10/2024

    This United Nations Day we are featuring the work of the United Nations organizations in Vienna to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. From advancing science and technology to driving sustainable development, from fighting drugs and crime to promoting a culture of peace and equality - the UN Vienna family's work is having a positive impact around the world. Explore these inspiring stories here.

  • Woman with Dove - Shaping Our Common Future
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    Woman with Dove - Shaping Our Common Future

    20/08/2024

    From the first inspiration to the final brushstroke - watch the story behind "Woman with Dove - Shaping Our Common Future". Celebrating 45 years of the Vienna International Centre - working together for peace, justice, equality and sustainable development. Watch the documentary

  • Teachers workshops at the United Nations in Vienna

    Teachers workshops at the United Nations in Vienna

    24/04/2024

    Teachers and educators play a crucial role to foster students’ understanding of human rights and sustainable development. More than 80 teachers from Vienna, Burgenland and Lower Austria recently came to the Vienna International Centre (VIC) to take part in a series of teachers workshops to learn more about teaching resources and offers for school classes to engage their students with these topics

  • UNOOSA Director Aarti Holla-Maini

    There is a place for all in outer space: ‘It’s not just for the geeks and the nerds’

    12/04/2024

    Technological advances have transformed space exploration, making it more accessible but also more commercially driven, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Director Aarti Holla-Maini has been telling UN News, ahead of International Day of Human Space Flight.

  • Ciné-ONU Vienna: The Gig Is Up
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    Ciné-ONU Vienna: The Gig Is Up

    18/09/2023

    Millions of people around the globe are engaged in the platform economy, looking for job opportunities online. "The Gig Is Up”, directed by Shannon Walsh in 2021, shines a light on numerous stories of gig workers and the benefits and threats that people in this shadow workforce face. 

  • Act for Our Common Future

    Act for Our Common Future

    15/08/2023

    Embrace the possible. That’s the call of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a blueprint for a better world. We don’t have to wait for the future we want — we can create it right now. Everyone can join the global movement for change.

  • Eight billion people; one humanity. - Op-Ed by António Guterres

    Eight billion people; one humanity. - Op-Ed by António Guterres

    15/11/2022

    The world’s population will reach 8 billion in the middle of November – a testament to scientific breakthroughs and improvements in nutrition, public health and sanitation. But as our human family grows larger, it is also growing more divided.

  • Our Common Agenda

    Our Common Agenda

    10/09/2021

    Our Common Agenda is an agenda of action, designed to strengthen and accelerate multilateral agreements – particularly the 2030 Agenda – and make a tangible difference in people’s lives.

  • SDG Goal 14 - Life below water

    SDG Goal 14 - Life below water

    02/06/2017

    The Ocean Conference, the first United Nations conference on this issue, presents a unique and invaluable opportunity for the world to reverse the precipitous decline of the health of the oceans and seas with concrete solutions.

  • Lazy person’s guide to saving the world

    Lazy person’s guide to saving the world

    01/09/2016

    End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. Whoa. The Sustainable Development Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up? No!

  • The World's Largest Lesson

    The World's Largest Lesson

    02/04/2016

    World’s Largest Lesson promotes use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. 

    From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!