Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: No Poverty

• Financial assistance payments to students in need through the primary trade union organization of students
• Charitable campaign "Give Goodness" (collection of items and pet food for an animal shelter)
• Participation of the volunteer team "Inspired by Kindness" in the XIV Republican Festival of Artistic Creativity "Rainbow Round Dance" (jointly with the Brest Regional Center for Correctional and Developmental Education and Rehabilitation)
• Visits of Clown Doctors (volunteer group) to medical institutions

Goal 2: Zero Hunger

• Campaign "From the Bottom of the Heart"
• Charity events and fundraising for the Brest Children's Social Shelter

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

• Sports Kaleidoscope "September of Sports and Health"
• Republican Bike Ride "Along the Roads of Memory"
• Week of Sports and Health
• Athletic Cross-Country Championship "Golden Mile"
• Campaign "Strength of a Volunteer's Heart" – Blood Donation

Goal 4: Quality Education

• Lectures delivered by the Director of the Smart City Research Center (the city and its evolution, urban functions, their digital transformation)
• Visit of the National SDG Coordinator to the university
• Conference "Current Issues in Earth Sciences"
• Science Battles at BrSU
• Participation of the Youth SDG Ambassador in the International Youth Forum "Baikal"
• Student Days at Brest State A.S. Pushkin University
• 2nd Student Forum on SDGs "Sustainable University"

Goal 5: Gender Equality

• Start up Seminar "Women in Business"
• Participation and victory of the Youth SDG 5 Ambassador in the competition "Youth SDG Ambassadors – The Future of the Planet is in Our Hands", 5th convocation

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

• Campaign "Give the Forest a New Life"
• Conference "Nature, Man and Ecology"
• Campaign "Forest. Goodness. Order"
• International Campaign "Garden of Memory"
• Videoconference "Green Monuments of Our City" with Tomsk State University

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

• Replacement of lamps with LED lighting
• Conducting energy audits of buildings; façade insulation, window replacement
• Organization of the annual "Energy Saving Week"

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

• Development of interactive electronic teaching and learning complexes and electronic educational resources in various disciplines
• Creating conditions for engaging students in research activities, including their participation in grant competitions and specialised forums

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

• Republican campaign "Let's Collect a Schoolbag Together"
• Clown Therapy (volunteer team "Doctor Clown") for psychological support of children
• Activities of the search and rescue team "South-West", engaged in searching for missing persons

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

• Urban Lab 11 Project
• Lecture "Transport Structure and Urban Logistics" (transport planning of smart cities)
• Business Game "Design Your Own City"
• Summer School "Transformation of Buffer Zones": Strategies for Developing Territories along Railway Lines
• Urban School "Teenagers in the City"
• Participation in the A.A. Vysokovsky Conference (HSE University) by Vyacheslav Ivanis on "Methodology for Assessing the Spatial Development of Belarusian Cities Based on GIS Analysis"

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

• Republican clean-up days for the improvement of the university and city territories
• District practice-oriented seminar "Current Trends in Landscaping"
• International Scientific and Practical Environmental Conference "Issues of Assessment, Monitoring and Conservation of Biodiversity"

Goal 13: Climate Action

• Conference "Botanical Readings"
• Month of Landscaping and Improvement
• Conference "Earth Science"
• Conference "Monitoring and Environmental Protection"
• Unified Day of Greening in the Republic of Belarus
• Campaign "A Tree – A Symbol of Unity"

Goal 14: Life Below Water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15: Life on Land

• Operation of the Ecology Centre with unique botanical collections (conservation of plant biodiversity, preservation of wildlife, etc.)
• Systematic research activities
• Participation in the development of the Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Brest Region until 2040

Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

• F.F. Martens International Competition in Humanitarian Law
• Meetings with law enforcement agencies on issues of cybercrime and extremism (Round Table "International Experience in Preventing Extremism and Nazism")
• BRICS Lex Model Competition
• Legal Knowledge Week "I Have the Right to Rights", dedicated to International Human Rights Day
• J. Pictet International Competition in International Humanitarian Law

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

• Clown Therapy Training in cooperation with organisations in Brest
• BRICS Consortium of Law Schools