Students Organising for Sustainability United Kingdom (SOS-UK)
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| Formation | 2019 |
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| Website | https://www.sos-uk.org/ |
Students Organising for Sustainability United Kingdom (SOS-UK) is a student-led education charity focusing on sustainability. The charity was founded in 2019 in response to the climate emergency by National Union of Students (United Kingdom) to go further and faster with sustainability work.[1][2] SOS-UK aims to engage, inspire and empower students to lead on sustainability, embed sustainability in formal education and make sustainability more inclusive so it is for everyone.[3] SOS-UK is a member of Students Organising for Sustainability International.[4]
Sustainability Campaigns[edit]
SOS-UK supports the Teach the Future campaign to repurpose the education system to include sustainability throughout.[5] They also support the youth-led campaign Mock COP26 which began as a two week online conference held in late November 2020, and is now supporting delegates and youth climate activists, to engage their elected representatives and run domestic campaigns on the treaty asks.[6] From this, they also launched a Teach the Teacher campaign in October 2021 across 20 countries in which students switched roles with their teachers to provide lessons that reflect the urgency of the climate crisis. [7][8]
They also founded Invest for Change, a campaign to reform how universities invest their money for environmental and social good.[9][10] SOS-UK have worked with People & Planet, Demilitarise Education and local student groups to call on universities to invest responsibly.[11][12]
The annual SDG Teach In is a campaign to embed the SDGs, and therefore sustainability, in all aspects of education and across all disciplines by encouraging educators to include them in their teaching and learning. The most recent SDG Teach In ended on March 11th, 2022. It engaged 772 educators from 134 institutions around the world, reaching an estimated 141,369 students.[13] It has been recognised and promoted by the UN.[14]
The organisation has also worked with unions including National Education Union, NASWUT, UCU & NAHT to put pressure on the UK Government to demand an improved climate change teaching strategy.[15] SOS-UK have also worked closely with UCU on their Decarbonise and Decolonise 2030 campaign.[16] They joined other student campaigning organisations in support of the UCU strikes in 2021.[17]
In 2022, SOS-UK launched The RACE Report with Hindu Climate Action, Nature Youth Connection and Education and South Asians for Sustainability to create transparency cards that will create the impetus to go speed up diversity and inclusion in the sustainability sector. The project is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. As of April 2022, over 30 charities have committed to participating in the project.[18][19]
Sustainability Programmes[edit]
SOS-UK delivers various behaviour change projects and programmes, including Green Impact which is a UNESCO award-winning programme designed to support environmentally and socially sustainable practice in organisations.[20] SOS-UK delivers work across responsible sourcing and purchasing on behalf of NUS Services which operates a purchasing consortium for students’ unions, as well as providing commercial development and marketing advice to its members.[21]
SOS-UK also works in collaboration with The Fairtrade Foundation and NUS to deliver the Fairtrade University and College Award. There are 36 institutions currently taking part in the award programme.[22]
The Drug and Alcohol Impact programme was referenced by the Department for Education when asked about effective interventions on harm reduction.[23]
In 2020 and 2021, the British Academy worked with SOS-UK to engage students and academics across SHAPE disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) in realising the relevance and impact of their subjects in tackling environmental, social and economic sustainability challenges. Students at Bangor University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of East Anglia worked on a range of projects to enable an understanding of the real world impact of their disciplines.[24]
SOS-UK has also worked with the Victoria and Albert Museum to deliver a Carbon Literacy course.[25]
Trustees[edit]
As of April 2022, the trustees are Ellen Fearon (the current president of NUS-USI), Larissa Kennedy (current NUS-UK president), Richard Dunne and Zamzam Ibrahim (former NUS-UK president).[26]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Working for environmental and social justice - About | SOS-UK". www.sos-uk.org. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Students Organising for Sustainability launches in the UK @ NUS". www.nus.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Working for environmental and social justice - About mission | SOS-UK". www.sos-uk.org. Retrieved 2021-08-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "SOS International members". Students Organizing for Sustainability International. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "About Teach the Future". www.teachthefuture.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "About Us". Mock COP. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Students want compulsory climate education". theecologist.org. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Climate change: Scottish pupils join global campaign to demand subject is mandatory in schools". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Invest for Change | Campaign to reform university investments". Invest for Change. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Invest for Change | SOS-UK". www.sos-uk.org. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ Mooney, Attracta; Riding, Siobhan (2020-10-03). "Students call on UK university endowments to invest responsibly". Financial Times. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Universities' fossil fuel shame". theecologist.org. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "SMILEY". smileymovement.org. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Global Goals Teach In". United Nations Western Europe. 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Unions say Government climate change teaching strategy is 'not enough'". The Independent. 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Decarbonise & decolonise 2030". www.ucu.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Student campaigning organisations announce solidarity with UCU strikers". People & Planet. 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ Hargrave, Russell. "Collaborative project calls for environmental charities to increase racial diversity". www.thirdsector.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Racial reporting initiative launches to address lack of diversity in UK environmental charities". UK Fundraising. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Green Impact | Students Organising for Sustainability | SOS-UK". Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Ethical Supply Chain | SOS-UK". www.sos-uk.org. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ↑ "Fairtrade remains essential to universities despite disruption to academic year". Fairtrade Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Students: Drugs". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Students to explore SHAPE researchers' impact on sustainability". The British Academy. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Carbon Literacy at the V&A • V&A Blog". V&A Blog. 2021-07-23. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
- ↑ "Working for environmental and social justice - About the team | SOS-UK". www.sos-uk.org. Retrieved 2021-08-12. Unknown parameter
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