Conference: VNG second annual Global Goals Municipalities Meet Up

Background
 

This Meet Up will be filled with inspiring guests who will discuss, stimulate and exchange about the implementation of the SDGs at the local level, including VNG Chair and Mayor Jan van Zanen (The Hague) and Emilia Saíz, Secretary-general of United Cities and Local Governments.

In addition to the plenary sessions in English, the event will dive into several specific topics and challenges such as social inclusion, partnerships, education and others during the different break-out sessions.

There will be one break-out session in English: this international session (13.45 – 14.40 CET), co-hosted by PLATFORMA (Sarah Bentz), is organised around the following topic at hand: “Joint local action: increase global impact from the municipal level through cooperation”, with different motivational examples of using SDGs in international cooperation. The session is specifically geared towards the exploration of future cooperation to increase the global impact connected to the 2030 Agenda.
 

Find the registration link here and check out the agenda in dutch here. An english version is soon to be published.