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Thank you for contributing to the SDG Conference Bergen 2023!

More than 1500 participants, speakers and staff from 117 countries made the SDG Conference Bergen 2023 a truly memorable digital conference!

You may watch the conference in its entirety (links in the programme)

The theme of the conference was A just transformation to a sustainable future, and speakers this year included:

▪ Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister of Norway 
▪ Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and former UNDP Administrator 
▪  Hilda Nakabuye, Founder Fridays For Future Uganda 
▪ Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford
▪ Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School, and Holberg Prize Laureate

Day Zero on the 8 February was a multitude of creative spaces like workshops, debates and exhibitions of relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals. 

The next conference will take place 7-9 February 2024. 

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Remembering SDG Conference Bergen 2023

In February 2023, the sixth SDG Conference Bergen took place. For the third year running the conference was digital, with more than 1,500 participants from 117 countries. We have collected the programme and other conference information on this page.

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Bilde fra SDG-konferansen i Bergen 2023.

Need for a broader debate about radical change

For three days, people from more than 100 countries have contributed to the discussion about the sustainable development goals. But the program leaders of the digital conference asks if the debate is broad and radical enough.

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The annual SDG Conference Bergen brings together research and higher education communities, politicians, government officials, NGOs and industry from all over the world to discuss the university sector's engagement with the sustainable development goals. The objective of the conference is to explore the role of research and education in creating new approaches for shared commitments to a sustainable global future.