Established in 2020, the Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships Network (GSFN) materialised out of the need to connect the Global South with the Global North and co-address the pressing challenges to sustainable futures through constructive partnerships.
VISION
Through GSFN, we want to lead in creating an inclusive, collaborative, innovative, interactive, and engaging network of early career researchers and like-minded target stakeholders, including start-ups and entrepreneurs. We want to provide a leading platform to accelerate impactful solutions by sharing visualisation, research, innovation, and enthusiasm in parallel to the network’s success. We aim to build sharing economy where no one is left behind.
FUNDAMENTAL AIM
To create a robust research environment, and build a multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral team of endogenous professionals capable of pursuing and utilising participatory and integrative approaches in solving public and environmental sustainability problems.
OBJECTIVES
- Forge Global South and Global North connections
- Foster partnerships with governments and communities to achieve societal impact
- Bring early career researchers’ interests along with senior/experienced researchers
- Deepen connections between research and practices
- Fostering connections between urban and rural communities
- Improve interlinkages and synergies between 17 SDGs within academia and in sustainability practice
PRIORITIES
Empowering and capacity building
Work with researchers to empower communities and individuals, increase independence and support those who need it. Give researchers and stakeholders the legacy of sustainable practices.
Fair and inclusive
Improve economic, social, and environmental equality, pursuing development which offers fair distribution and access to good quality life and working conditions
Networking and engagement
Provide an innovative and global platform to make GSFN an influential and well-connected network, transforming traditional societal systems into more sustainable systems
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
Co-create sustainable and resilient development pathways and secure sustainable futures for everyone. Work with businesses and organisations to translate sustainability principles and social responsibilities into practical actions aligned to shared best practices globally that are simultaneously coherent with local culture and sustainability.
FOUNDER
GSFN was founded on 31st October 2020 by Dr Renuka Thakore, who firmly believes that collaborations between various stakeholders, research partnerships between diverse academics and knowledge exchange, and enhancing education and working together for sustainable and ‘sharing economic’ development model could be the key to achieving a sustainable future.
