This post, from the Sustainable Brands Japan Editorial Bureau, has been translated from Japanese — read the original
article here.
SEKISUI has launched the SEKISUI SDGs
Academy, a global website for the next generation
to learn about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This website is the
Japanese chemical manufacturer’s response to recommendations from children who
participated in the 2017 Global Children's Eco Summit, at which SEKISUI
promised to provide teaching materials on environmental issues. Last year,
SEKISUI created EduTown SDGs for Japanese young people. As a learning
portal, the new English website has widened its reach globally.
SEKISUI CHEMICAL is a leading manufacturer of housing, building equipment and
high-performance plastics. The Company has 84 offices and factories, mainly in
Asia, but also in North America, Europe and the Middle East; and
more than 26,000 employees. As part of its environmental activities for all
employees
and their families, every five years the company holds the Global Children's Eco
Summit, and positions its employees’ children as Eco Ambassadors.
At the 2017 Summit, participating children made a suggestion: “We felt that
there were differences in the level of environmental education between
countries. We’d like SEKISUI to provide good-quality learning materials,
accessible to everyone.” The launch of this website, which offers the material
requested, is SEKISUI’s response to this suggestion.
SEKISUI SDGs Academy encourages users to
think in an enjoyable way about the connections between SDGs and themselves
through activities such as card games, which involve information about the
company’s own products. The target age is 10 to 15 years, and the site is
expected to be widely used educationally around the world. It is based on
EduTown
SDGs, a
Japanese-language website that has received positive responses from teachers in
Japan, and which SEKISUI opened last year.
Hitomi Miura, from SEKISUI’s ESG Management Department, remarked: “We
created this global website to fulfil SEKISUI’s wish to provide teaching
materials with which children around the world can learn about environmental
issues.”
Users’ voices have already been heard. One message began: “We, parents and
children together, are using the site and learning about SDGs,” and ended with:
“Thanks for promoting your CSR activities to us and our children.”
Based on this English-language website, SEKISUI is considering making these
educational materials available in multiple languages, to be downloaded from a
future website.
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Published May 24, 2019 8am EDT / 5am PDT / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST