The Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development is a Zurich-based organization that creates and facilitates networking events with a focus on sustainability efforts. This project assessed the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary networking of these events, as well as created guidelines to improve and plan future events. To assess the current success of the networking aspect of these events, the team attended several events to observe and obtain survey data. Additionally, key-informant meetings with event organizers provided insight to the requirements of planning an event. This collective information directed the team’s recommendations for improvement, as well as gave insight on the content a formal event planning guide would include. These recommendations involved allotting dedicated time during events for attendees to socialize and connect with one another, such as before or in the middle of an event, and creating engaging activities that facilitate participant interaction. Through structuring an event in such a way that it increases attendee interaction, ZKSD will be able to further contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 17: “partnerships for the goals”.

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Creator

• Ruiz, Antonio
• Larson, Charlotte
• Brunetti, Dominic

Subject

• Learning
• Project-Based Learning
• Innovation
• Culture
• Sustainability
• Environment

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101123-135924
• 113973

Advisor

• Polizzotto, Leonard
• Kumar, Uma T.

Year

• 2023

Center

• Zurich, Switzerland Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development (ZKSD)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Date created

• 2023-10-11

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-101123-135924

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-12-04