Update: Additional Speaker for Sustainable Development Goals 'SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth' 24 Sept 2019 at RMIT

Posted September 20, 2019 - 09:06 by Matthew Coote

Update: We are pleased to announce that Daisy Gardener, Advocacy and Campaigns Manager at Oxfam Australia, will also join the panel for this event.

Update:
We are pleased to announce that Daisy Gardener, Advocacy and Campaigns Manager at Oxfam Australia, will also join the panel for this event.


Sustainable Development Goal 8: 
Decent Work and Economic Growth


Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series


From 2018–20, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied by a Policy Brief. 

Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth aims to 'Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all'.
 

 
Panellists
Additional Speaker ... Daisy Gardener
Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, Oxfam Australia

Associate Professor Sharif as-Saber
Director, Master of International Business Program, School of Management, RMIT University

Kyla Raby
National Program Coordinator – Support for Trafficked People Program / Lead – Trafficking, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage, Australian Red Cross

Professor Bruce Wilson
Director, EU Centre, RMIT University
When
Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 12:30pm – 2pm

Where
RMIT Council Chamber, Building 1, Level 2R, 
124 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC 

Cost 
Free

Registration is essential
RSVP here

 

Light refreshments will be served
 
For more information see the event flier (see below) or registration link.

Accessibility Information: 
An accessibility/mobility access map is available to download here (please scroll to the end of the webpage). RMIT's Building 1 can be accessed via the adjacent Building 21. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like further information.

 
Plus this event below for Graduate Student and Early Career Researchers 

Connecting the SDG Dots:
Implications for Your Research
 

Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Graduate Student and Early Career Researcher Workshop


The Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network is also presenting a series of workshops for graduate students and early career researchers (broadly defined) aimed at making sense of the emerging place of the SDGs in universities.

In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to deepen the alignment between their research and the goals and targets that make up the UN Global Agenda. 

This workshop is designed for ECR academics and PhD candidates who are working on SDG-aligned research, or who would like to explore the alignment of their research with the SDGs.

This is a free event but registration is required.
 

When
Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 9:30am – 12:00

Where
RMIT Building 37, Level 2, Room 3, 
411 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 

Cost 
Free

Registration is essential
RSVP here


For more information see the event flier or registration link




European Union Centre
Social and Global Studies Centre
RMIT University, Melbourne

Email: [email protected]
Web:rmit.edu.au/eucentre

Let's also connect on twitter @RMIT_EU_CENTRE (8.2K followers) 

The European Union Centre at RMIT University is funded through grants from the EU Jean Monnet Programme and RMIT University.

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.
 

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