LASU SDG

About Us

BACKGROUND - Lagos State University Sustainable Development

The United Nations Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is one of the most ambitious and important global agreements in recent history. The agenda, with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core, is a guide to tackling the world’s most pressing challenges – including ending poverty and bringing economic prosperity, social inclusion, environmental sustainability and peace and good governance to all countries and all people by 2030.

The SDGs cover a wide range of complex social, economic, and environmental challenges and addressing them will require transformations in how societies and economies function and how we interact with our planet. Education, research, innovation and leadership will be essential in helping society address these challenges. Universities, with their broad remit around the creation and dissemination of knowledge and their unique position within society, have a critical role to play in the achievement of the SDGs. Arguably none of the SDGs will be achieved without this sector. LASU engaging with the SDGs will also greatly benefit universities by helping them demonstrate university impact, capture demand for SDG-related education, build new partnerships, access new funding streams, and define a university that is responsible and globally aware.

Learning and Teaching

Providing students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to understand and address the SDGs (broadly ‘education for sustainable development’); providing in-depth academic or vocational expertise to implement SDG solutions; providing accessible, affordable and inclusive education to all; providing capacity building for students and professionals from developing countries; and empowering and mobilising young people.

Research

Providing the necessary knowledge, evidence-base, solutions, technologies, pathways and innovations to underpin and support the implementation of the SDGs by the global community – through both traditional disciplinary approaches and newer interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and sustainability science approaches; providing capacity building for developing countries in undertaking and using research; collaborating with and supporting innovative companies to implement SDG solutions; improving diversity in research; and student training for sustainable development research.

Organisational governance, culture, and operations of the university

The SDGs through governance structures and operational policies and decisions, such as those relating to employment, finance, campus services, support services, facilities, procurement, human resources, and student administration.

External leadership

Strengthening public engagement and participation in addressing the SDGs; initiating and facilitating cross-sectoral dialogue and action; ensuring higher education sector representation in national implementation; helping to design SDG-based policies; and demonstrating sector commitment to the SDGs.

Our Vision

To promote the Lagos State University as a Global Centre for scholarly training and research in diverse disciplines.

This will be achieved through:

The provision of infrastructure, leadership, training and resources necessary to promote integrated scholarly activity,
Enhancement of research productivity
Increase of external funding of research programs throughout the university.
Enhancement of the University international profile and visibility,
Establishment of strategic partnerships with world-class institutions across the diverse sectors of society and
Innovatively seeking of new ways of enhancing the University revenue generation capacity.

Our Mission

Lagos State University (LASU) occupy a unique position within society. With a broad remit around the creation and dissemination of knowledge, LASUs have long been powerful drivers of global, national, and local innovation, economic development, and societal well-being. As such, LASU has a critical role in the achievement of the SDGs and will also greatly benefit from engaging with them.

The mission of LASU is:

Coordination of all the activities for the actualization of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in LASU towards the realisation of the vision of the current administration.
Fund generation through aid, grants, and endowments to the University.
Networking with relevant governmental, non-governmental and private sector organisations.
Facilitating and maintaining local and international linkage and exchange programmes in collaboration with relevant University channels.
Development of innovative need-driven university-wide academic and research projects.
Cooperation with the alumni association to enhance the overall development of the university.
Facilitation and exploitation of industrial relations between the University and the industrial sector for the advantage of the university.
Organisation of Conferences, and workshops with private investors, Government Agencies, and International Partners for the advancement of the University
Production of journals and Research Publications and
Performing other duties and assignments as may be delegated by the Vice Chancellor.

Lagos State University Sustainable Development

The SDGs are a set of priorities and aspirations to guide all countries in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, including ending poverty and hunger, protecting the planet from degradation and addressing climate change; ensuring that all people can enjoy prosperous, healthy and fulfilling lives; and fostering peaceful, just and inclusive societies free from fear and violence.

SDG 1

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

SDG 2

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

SDG 3

Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.

SDG 4

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

SDG 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

SDG 6

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

SDG 7

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

SDG 8

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.

SDG 9

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

SDG 10

Reduce inequality within and among countries.

SDG 11

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

SDG 12

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

SDG 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

SDG 14

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

SDG 15

Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

SDG 16

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

SDG 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Finance.

KEY ROLE OF LASU IN SDGS

Addressing the challenges of the SDGs will require new knowledge, new ways of doing things, hard choices between competing options, and in some cases profound transformations. LASU has always been involved in technological and societal progress through research, discovery, knowledge creation, and adoption. The university attracts and nurtures talent and creativity and is a central player in regional and national innovation systems. These services are critical for helping the global community understand the challenges, opportunities, and interactions between the SDGs; develop and implement solutions; develop and assess policy options and transformation pathways; and monitor progress.

Lagos State University is at the forefront of providing people with professional and personal skills and capabilities. Lagos State Government and LASU have access to large concentrations of young and curious people who are passionate, creative and have a desire for a better world. Our university also increasingly influences regional and global development through international students and alumni and capacity-building activities. Achieving the SDGs will need everyone to contribute. LASU appreciates the need to ensure equipping current and future leaders, decision-makers, teachers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and citizens with the knowledge, skills and motivation that will help them contribute to achieving the SDGs.

LASU through its staff, students, campuses, and neighbourhoods should have significant social, economic, and environmental footprints. LASU is eager and willing to implement the principles of the SDGs within its own governance, operations, and culture.

As earlier reiterated, LASU holds a position of neutral and trusted stakeholders within the state. As such, the university has the capacity and responsibility to guide and lead the local, national, and international response to the SDGs through cross-sectoral dialogues and partnerships. LASU will continue to play a key role in educating the public and other sectors on the SDGs and in advocating for the importance of the SDGs to staff, students and the general public.