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Covid-19 and the SDGs

As part of its wide-ranging response to the pandemic, the º£½ÇÉçÇø has run two very successful  programmes over the last two years funded through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). This Fund supports work with non-academic partners to address their challenges and opportunities presented by the Covid-19 pandemic and to support economic and social recovery. Building on these successes, and expanding on the scope, the University opened a further Internal HEIF programme to work with our non-academic partners to drive economic and social recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in a way that also tackles climate change across the region and beyond.

The internal call for project proposals for HEIF funding was co-sponsored by the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) and was aimed at addressing the critical challenges of Covid-19 recovery (both economic and social) and climate change in an integrated way. 

Explore the following sustainability-related projects which were successful in the latest internal HEIF call and have received funding until July 2022:

• ‘CarbonMap Initiative for sustainable land management’ (, Science Policy Research Unit)
• ‘Supporting social, environmental and economic sustainability in the Costa Rican coffee industry’ (, School of Global Studies) 
• ‘Creating with uncertainty: Covid recovery to educate for sustainable futures’ (, School of Education and Social Work)
• ‘Sustainable livelihoods, carbon storage, and biodiversity conservation through forest vanilla production’ (, School of Life Sciences) 
• ‘Ecoforensic: a new ecological knowledge exchange organisation empowering communities to protect Nature’ (, School of Life Sciences) 
• ‘Development of API and visualisation tools to discover post-Covid changes in energy consumption in UK households’ (, School of Media, Arts and Humanities) 
• ‘Critical National Infrastructure resilience against pandemics and climate change’ (, School of Engineering and Informatics)
• ‘Improving food security and protecting rainforest biodiversity and carbon stocks in indigenous communities recovering from Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea’ (, School of Life Sciences)
• ‘Developing an ecosystem of business networks to support SMEs transition to the circular economy’ (, º£½ÇÉçÇø Business School) 
  
  

Further information about the above-mentioned projects funded through the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and run in partnership with the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) can be explored on the SSRP .  In addition to the above-mentioned sustainability-related projects, other innovative projects were also approved by the HEIF fund and will be listed here soon.