Hosted by a member institution of U21 HSG, the SDG Student Workshop is a 2-day in-person workshop that brings together students studying at U21 Health Sciences Group member universities to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals. Aside from meeting others studying in different universities and different disciplines, students will learn from academic members, and be assigned to work on case studies and collaborative projects together.

The 2025 SDG Student Workshop will be hosted at the University College Dublin College of Health and Agricultural Science in Dublin, Ireland from 12 - 13 June 2025 on the topic of “One Health for Global Health” . Registration is open.

All students registered in Health, Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Veterinary courses including courses such as Nursing and Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Vet Medicine, Agricultural Food Science, Public Health, Radiography and Biomedical Health and Life Sciences can register. This workshop will be more suitable for undergraduate students in their second to fourth year of study.

Any staff at U21 HSG affiliated institutions in the UK, and abroad, can also join in person.

Click here for more about the 2025 SDG Student Workshop.



The 2024 SDG Student Workshop was successfully hosted by the University of Nottingham and the student-led group, UoN EcoHealthcare Society. Read more by clicking on the two buttons below:

This year’s SDG Virtual Student Workshop took place on the 16th and 17th June on the theme of Humanities in Healthcare. Cormac Russell delivered a keynote presentation on Sustainable Community Development. Click here to view the recording and find out more. Student Organiser Reflection

SDG Student Workshop 2019, University College Dublin

In 2019, members from the Sustainable Development Goals Group ran a successful SDG Student Workshop at University College Dublin attracting over 50 students from five U21 HSG member universities.

Themed around helping students understand the UN SDGs and stimulate interprofessional problem solving, the group listened to presentations on topics about 'The Global HIV epidemic: Acheivement and Current Challenges in Treatment, Prevention and Cure' and 'Is Survival enough? Strengthening Rehabilitation towards the 2030 Agenda' as well as working together on various case studies relating directly to the SDGs.

Ebele Aniereobi, Medical Student, University of Birmingham commented:

'My group had students from different year groups and countries, and it was great to have a variety of perspectives when dealing with a challenge.

The entire workshop allowed me to find like-minded students from different universities and I look forward to keeping in touch and taking part in joint projects in the future.

Partnership is essential to the achievements of the SDGs and collaboration across cultures and professions can shed light on new solutions for our current problems.'

The programme for the workshop can be found here.

Past workshops