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  The ProGREEN Leadership fellows and team facilitators gathered in Dakar, Senegal on December 7th and 8th at Le Ndiambour Hotel to mark the fellows program’s final learning event. From March to December 2022, START has led the ProGREEN Leadership…

Introducing our latest installment of “Opportunities in Sustainability” – our email round-up of relevant opportunities from and within the sustainability community delivered straight to your inbox! To stay up-to-date with all things START, be sure to follow us on Facebook,…

Dear colleagues, It is with a heavy heart, we need to inform you that Zheenbek Kulenbekov, Professor and Chair of the Applied Geology department and ECSC department, passed away on September 23, 2022, at the age of 56. Prof. Zheenbek Kulenbekov dedicated over 8…

To date, START, in partnership with JPI Urban Europe and ICLEI Africa, has convened two of three interactive virtual workshops with key stakeholders working on issues of urban transitions in Africa. The first workshop, “Pathways towards 15-Minute Cities in African…

Since June of 2022, START has partnered with the Education Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) to conduct refresher trainings on the EPIC model in several southern African cities under the EPIC-N Africa Network. To date, these trainings have been…

Sixteen early-career researchers and professionals from five West African countries are currently participating in the Promoting Gains in Renewable Energy (ProGREEN) Leadership Fellows Program. So far, the fellows have participated in six virtual leadership lab modules and accompanying live Zoom…

To unite the human capital of universities in Asia with local governments and communities to improve the quality of life, advance social wealth, and support the implementation of the SDGs, START International (START) collaborated with the Educational Partnerships for Innovation…

Recently, I was invited by the African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development (ANYL4PSD) to be a Speaker at the African Regional online Teach-In on Climate and Justice, an event that was held May 12 and 13, 2022. …

Beginning earlier this year, START and Reos are convening 16 Francophone, West African early-career renewable energy scientists and professionals for the ProGREEN Leadership Labs, which aim to strengthen Fellows’ personal and interpersonal leadership capacities to meaningfully engage in co-design processes…

In support of young researchers working on the Collaboration for Adaptation and Resilience in Mali (Co-FARM) project (an IDRC supported program focused on increasing the resilience and adaptive capacities of water resource users in Koutiala, Mali), START and Co-FARM partner…