GCUA 2030

Global Challenges University Alliance, GCUA 2030, is a network of university partners from across the globe with a common vision of contributing to sustainable, global development. GCUA 2030 offers a global learning forum for PhD students and young researchers providing a range of learning and networking activities.

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GCUA 2030 Award

We are proud to announce the GCUA 2030 award. The award is established to encourage high quality research for sustainable global development.

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GCUA 2030 courses

Do you want your research to contribute to making the world a better place? Would you like to interact with doctoral students from all over the world? If you are still reading, you should probably sign up for the PhD courses given by GCUA 2030.

How to conduct a systematic review

GCUA 2030 hosted a successful webinar together with SLU Library and SLU Global on the theme "How to conduct a systematic review". The webinar was open for all GCUA 2030 members.
Read more and watch the recording here!
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Climate Action Challenge

The mentorship programme will allow for cross-cultural exchange and learning between mentors and mentees, in depth dialogues on a range of aspects related to academic career development.

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Mentorship programme

The mentorship programme will allow for cross-cultural exchange and learning between mentors and mentees, in depth dialogues on a range of aspects related to academic career development.

News for GCUA 2030 members

  • 2025-06-27

    SLU improves global sustainability ranking among higher education institutions

    SLU is climbing in rankings, making the top 101–200 of the 2,526 higher education institutions evaluated in The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025. This ranking focuses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. For goal 13, Climate Action, SLU is ranked 3rd.
  • 2025-06-12

    Chinese-led study decodes grassland drought resilience in US and China

    A groundbreaking study led by Chinese scientists has uncovered divergent drought survival strategies in Eurasian and North American grasslands, offering critical insights for ecosystem management amid climate change.
  • 2025-06-12

    BFU establishes Flyway University Alliance

    On October 16th, 2024, during the Global Ecological Governance (Nansen) Conference, Beijing Forestry University in collaboration with the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), inaugurated the Flyway University Alliance.
  • 2025-06-12

    GCUA 2030 researchers convene for agroecology conference

    Earlier this year SLU hosted the international conference "Comparative Agroecology: A Paradigm to Upscale Climate-Smart Food and Water System Transformations" with the aim to examine how a comparative approach to agroecology can support international collaboration and policy development.
  • 2025-06-10

    Climate action challenge

    It is time to wrap-up this year´s climate action challenge. After a fruitful and very interesting course, the students are now about to finalize their different projects.

A global learning forum for sustainable development

The overall goal of GCUA 2030 is to enhance the capacity of its partners to contribute to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through international collaboration. A key objective is to equip the next generation of researchers, teachers and academic leaders with knowledge, tools and networks that will strengthen their capacity to work across disciplines and to conduct translational research. The network offers different types of learning activities designed to accommodate and be attractive to students from different educational systems.