Cities, global changes and sustainability (Staff and Ph.D. Mobility)

Cities, global changes and sustainability is an Erasmus+ mobility project between University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg and Politecnico di Torino. The aim of this project is to start building a network in the region, in line with the Italian national strategy and with the POLITO Strategic Plan 2018 – 2024, according to which POLITO “will reinforce its commitment to international cooperation paying particular attention to Asia and Africa”, will “include the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda in our curricula”, with a “special focus on integration paths intended for students coming from emergent countries which are the main target of the SDGs”, like South Africa, and will also “orient interdisciplinary research towards the achievement of the SDGs”. Indeed the partners of this proposal were chosen because of common research fields specifically targeting SDGs 7, 11 and 13.