Surrey CIFAL training centre

CIFAL Surrey: driving progress on the UN's sustainable development goals

Working in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey is leading Surrey CIFAL, a training centre offering customised learning solutions to organisations and individuals from all sectors. The provision has at its core a focus on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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CIFAL Surrey can help you lead on sustainability

Email CIFAL@surrey.ac.uk

What is CIFAL Surrey?

The new United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)-affiliated CIFAL centre at the University of Surrey has been set up to drastically improve the UK's ability to address climate change.

Drawing on the University's strong research heritage and active engagement in sustainability, the CIFAL centre (Centre International de Formation des Autorités et Leaders), CIFAL Surrey, works with UNITAR (the UN's training branch) and the CIFAL Global Network among other stakeholders to lead both training and capacity-building initiatives in sustainability.

Situated within the University's Institute for Sustainability, CIFAL Surrey draws on multi-disciplinary expertise in addressing a wide range of sustainability challenges, by facilitating knowledge exchange among leaders in government, the private sector, and civil society - locally, nationally and internationally.

CIFAL Surrey explores thematic areas

These include over 100 topics, helping to support UNITAR's initiatives, below are a select few:

Sustainability learning

Public policy and governance

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Management

Peace and security

Human and social development

Environment and climate change

Infrastructure and economic development

Technology and innovation

Environmental sustainability

This new partnership between the University of Surrey’s new CIFAL Centre, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) demonstrates the broad and highly relevant impact of our research on sustainability continues to have around the world.

I am delighted that in association with our own Institute for Sustainability, this collaboration will further our mission to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, by sharing our progress in addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and offering training and interconnecting opportunities between existing and new partners and stakeholders. Professor Lu Max, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey

With only four CIFAL centres located in Europe (Belgium, Poland, UK and Switzerland), the Institute for Sustainability is the perfect intellectual home for a CIFAL training centre based in the South East of England.

Our CIFAL training Centre offers training programs in key areas related to sustainable development. It acts as a hub for knowledge exchange between government officials, non-governmental and international organisations, the private sector, academic institutions and the UN system.

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