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Co-edited by the president of Georgia Tech, one of America's leading research universities, Higher Education and SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals demonstrates how higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to act as catalysts, conveners, and supporters of key partnerships to help advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Featuring authors from higher education institutions, educational networks, and governing bodies around the globe, chapters provide case studies, inspiration, reflections, and critical perspectives from a variety of geographies, disciplines, and partners on how HEI partnerships can rapidly accelerate progress on the goals. Responding to an urgent need for a mind shift towards collaboration and collective action, this is a uniquely global roadmap for higher education leaders, students, faculty, staff, and other partners, to take on the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals is a series of 17 books that address each of the SDGs in turn specifically through the lens of higher education. Adopting a solutions-based approach, each book focuses on how higher education is advancing delivery of sustainable development and the United Nations global goals. The series is edited by Wendy Purcell, Professor with Rutgers University and Academic Research Scholar with Harvard University; Emeritus Professor and University President Emerita.

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This a timely book, which will provide a concrete support to the debate on SDG17, and on the actions which the higher education community should take, in order to pursue its implementation. -- Walter Leal As a book series, Higher Education and the SDGs will make an important contribution to accelerating delivery against the global goals. To start the series with a book on Partnerships for the Goals, possibly the most decisive SDG, makes perfect sense and is highly symbolic since accomplishing the sixteen other ones largely depends on cooperation and collaboration among all relevant stakeholders. This book impressively shows the important role of higher education in teaming up with actors from various other sectors to meet the ambitious aims of the Agenda 2030 collectively. -- Prof. Andreas Kaplan The book series Higher Education and the SDGs will make a valuable contribution to policy dialogue and higher education practices in achieving the SDGs. This first book in the series on Higher Education for Partnerships for the Goals highlights a range of partnerships, discusses some successful partnership cases and explore ways to enhance the impact of higher education partnerships to accelerate progress towards SDGs. The underlying argument of the book is that there is no formula for successful partnerships for SDGs. The wider institutional context, histories and potential partners influence the nature and success of partnership. -- Qudsia Kalsoom

This a timely book, which will provide a concrete support to the debate on SDG17, and on the actions which the higher education community should take, in order to pursue its implementation. -- Walter Leal As a book series, Higher Education and the SDGs will make an important contribution to accelerating delivery against the global goals. To start the series with a book on Partnerships for the Goals, possibly the most decisive SDG, makes perfect sense and is highly symbolic since accomplishing the sixteen other ones largely depends on cooperation and collaboration among all relevant stakeholders. This book impressively shows the important role of higher education in teaming up with actors from various other sectors to meet the ambitious aims of the Agenda 2030 collectively. -- Prof. Andreas Kaplan

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Ángel Cabrera is President of the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He co-founded the University Global Coalition, a global network of universities working in partnership with the United Nations in support of the SDGs. Drew Cutright is Senior Strategy Consultant, Strategic Consulting, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

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