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THE 2030 AGENDA AND 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

The 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a global plan to promote sustainable peace and prosperity and to protect our planet. Since 2016, all countries have been working to translate this shared vision to fight poverty and reduce inequalities into national development plans.

In the following, we present the 17 goals and show you businesses, associations and institutions in Eastern Styria that are already working towards one or more of these goals.

If you think of someone who is active in one of these areas, please contact us at info@oststeiermark.com and we will add the company or association to our list.

Goal 1

End poverty in all its forms and everywhere

NO POVERTY

Food on four wheels
Vinziladen Hartberg
Austria Food Bank
Exchange markets

Goal 2

End hunger, achieve food security and better nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

NO HUNGER

Food on four wheels
Too Good to Go
Vinziladen Hartberg
BioBienen - Flower meadows in the Pöllau Valley Nature ParK
Local producers
Vacation on the farm
Winner of the Bio Gastro Trophy 2022: RETTER Bio-Natur-Resort

Goal 3

Ensure a healthy life for all people of all ages and promote their well-being

HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Ring Bio Hotel Hartberg
Fastenhaus Dunst, Miesenbach
LKH Hartberg
LKH Weiz
Lebenshilfe Hartberg
Weiz Social
Social operating company Birkfelder Raum
Opportunity B Gleisdorf
Health programs from the East Styrian communities
Health offers in the hotels (yoga, ice bathing, forest bathing...)
Nature park programs

Goal 4

Ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

QUALITY EDUCATION

Secondary School Hartberg
Higher Federal School for Economic Professions - HLW Hartberg
Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School Hartberg
Federal Training College for Elementary Education Hartberg
Provincial Vocational School Hartberg
School of Agriculture and Forestry Kirchberg am Walde
Technical College for Agriculture and Food Management Hartberg-St. Martin
Technical College for Agriculture and Food Management Vorau-St. Martin
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Weiz
Federal Technical College Weiz
Study Centre Weiz
Federal Grammar School and Federal Secondary School Gleisdorf
Federal Upper Secondary School Birkfeld
TSV Football Academy, Hartberg
Academy for Sustainability, Pöllau
College - Tecnofutbol International
Pöllauer Tal Nature Park and Almenland Nature Park with educational programs (nature park programs, nature park school, nature park kindergarten)
Further education programs with Styria Tourism
Further education program of the Austrian Hotel Association - ÖHV-Campus
Further education program of the adventure region for accommodation providers in the region
Landlord meetings
TourismCoach

Goal 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

GENDER EQUALITY

Gendering
Equal opportunities in job advertisements (recruitment)
Fair image distribution in advertising material (equality between men and women)
Community - From mom to mom

Goal 6

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

Feistritz Valley Water Board
Hartberg Water Services GmbH
Drinking water
Clean waters (lakes, ponds, organic natural bathing ponds)
Miesenbach water trail with signposting

Goal 7

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

Biowärme Friedberg
Regional Energy Weiz
Energy Region Weiz-Gleisdorf
Energy Styria
Hartberg municipal utilities
Feistritzwerke
Bioenergy Grabner, Wenigzell
Bioenergy Pischelsdorf
KELAG Wärme GmbH - Hartberg district heating plant
Biomass heating plant Passail
Local heating Anger
Hydroelectric power plants (Bruck/Lafnitz, Waldbach-Mönichwald)
Open space photovoltaic plants (St. Lorenzen/Wechsel, Gleisdorf, Ratten)
Wind energy (Sommeralm, Pretul, Pongratzen, Herrenstein-Hochwechsel)
Charging stations (e-cars, e-bikes)
East Styrian businesses with the Austrian environmental seal of approval

Goal 8

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Hartberg Life Aid
Weiz Social
Social enterprise Birkfeld area
Chance B Gleisdorf
City and regional vouchers

Goal 9

Build resilient infrastructure, promote widespread and sustainable industrialisation and support innovation

INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Prolactal Hartberg
Ringana Hartberg
RHI Rohrbach an der Lafnitz
Elin GmbH Weiz
Innovative leading enterprise in tourism: RETTER Bio-Natur-Resort, Pöllauberg
Cooperation with universities
Strengthening local suppliers through website presence

Goal 10

Reduce inequality within and between countries

LESS INEQUALITIES

SGH - Behinderten-Selbsthilfe-Gruppe Hartberg Hartberg with certified hotels and excursion destinations
Weiz Social
Social operating company Birkfelder Raum
Chance B Gleisdorf

Goal 11

Making cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

Cittá Slow Hartberg
Small Historic Towns of Austria - Hartberg
Climate and Energy Model Regions (Anger, Vorau, Kulmland, Wechselland, Joglland, Almenland Nature Park, Pöllauer Tal Nature Park, Upper Feistritz Valley, Hartberg Region, Weiz-Gleisdorf, Kaindorf)
Pöllau Valley Nature Park model region
SAM-Mobile
Hiking villages
Meeting zones
Greening and planting of public spaces

Goal 12

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

Eastern Styria Advertising Material
Second Hand Shops
Farm stores (association of many producers from the region)
Events with regional producers
Organic hotels
Austrian Ecolabel - certified accommodation providers

Goal 13

Take immediate action to combat climate change and its impacts

CLIMATE PROTECTION MEASURES

Goal 14

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

LIFE UNDER WATER

Goal 15

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, manage forests sustainably, combat desertification, end and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

Protected landscape areas
Nature reserves
Nature parks
European protected areas (Natura2000)
Humus+, Kaindorf Ecoregion

Goal 16

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Goal 17

Strengthen means of implementation and breathe new life into the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

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