2021.04.12

SDG activities of NUT were featured in the media.(2021.1.29)

On January 29th (Fri), Dr. Makoto Nanko (Director of the Office for SDGs Promotion / Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering), and Mr. Harunari Sugiyama, Mr. Kazuki Nagao, and Mr. Akihiro Nakamura, fourth-year students from the Department of Science of Technology Innovation of Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT), were featured on "Yugata Wide Niigata Ichiban" program, TeNY TV Niigata, entitled "SDGs: Towards a Sustainable World, Nurturing Engineers for the Next Generation" as a special program.

In this program, companies and educational institutions in Niigata Prefecture were featured for their SDG initiatives. NUT was introduced as the only hub university in East Asia to be appointed by the United Nations in 2018 as a hub university for SDG Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) in UNAI (United Nations Academic Impact).

Dr. Nanko explained that the SDGs are goals for realizing the sustainable society and they should be recognized as common global goals for everyone in society as a whole. After that, students introduced SDG educational games developed by students and faculty members of NUT.

This was a valuable opportunity for us to share SDG initiatives of NUT with the local community. NUT will continue to push forward with efforts to achieve the SDGs through collaboration with local communities and educational institutions.