{"id":678,"date":"2025-06-11T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:53:05","slug":"presentation-given-on-unavex-sri2025-africa-satellite-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Presentation given on UnaVEx &#8211; SRI2025 &#8211; Africa Satellite Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Solomon Derese, University of Nairobi, hosted the SRI (Sustainability&nbsp;Research&nbsp;+ Innovation) Africa Satellite Event, which took place from June 4\u20136, 2025 at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sricongress.org\/sri2025-africa-satellite-event\/\">event page <\/a>). During the event, Prof. Derense presented on our project titled: \u201cUnaVEx: Fostering Global Advocates of Sustainability through Virtual Exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The satellite event was organized by Future Earth Africa Hub (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/tag\/africa\/\">more info here<\/a><\/strong>), together with the National Research Fund of Kenya (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrf.go.ke\/\">https:\/\/www.nrf.go.ke\/<\/a><\/strong>) and South Africa (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrf.ac.za\/\">https:\/\/www.nrf.ac.za\/<\/a><\/strong>). The theme for this year\u2019s gathering was \u201cSRI Africa 2025: Advancing Sustainability Through Collaborative Research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event served as an important regional platform leading into the global Sustainability Research &amp; Innovation Congress (SRI2025) (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sricongress.org\/\">https:\/\/sricongress.org\/<\/a><\/strong>), which will be held in Chicago from June 16\u201319, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UnaVEx-Fostering-Global-Advocates-of-Sustainability-through-Virtual-Exchange.pdf\">Read more from the abstract<\/a>.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Solomon Derese, University of Nairobi, hosted the SRI (Sustainability&nbsp;Research&nbsp;+ Innovation) Africa Satellite Event, which took place from June 4\u20136, 2025 at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (event page ). During the event, Prof. Derense presented on our project titled: \u201cUnaVEx: Fostering Global Advocates of Sustainability through Virtual Exchange.\u201d The satellite event was organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atm.helsinki.fi\/unavex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}