Under the patronage of the President of Al-Qadisiyah University, Professor Dr. Kazem Jaber Al-Jubouri, and under the supervision and presence of the Assistant to the President for Administrative Affairs, Professor Dr. Atheer Abdul Amir Al-Maliki, and the follow-up of the Director of the Continuing Education Center, Professor Dr. Mousa Khalaf Awad, the Continuing Education Center, in collaboration with the Women’s Affairs Unit at the College of Medicine, the General Secretariat of the Central Library, and the Sama Innovation Foundation for Sustainable Development, organized a training course on the use of design thinking to achieve sustainable development goals, presented by Engineer Raad Kurdi Al-Hamzawi.

The course aimed to utilize design thinking in employing aspects of sustainable development to achieve goals such as health, education, and equality through creative methods. The course also addressed the concept of sustainable development as the natural environment and the biosphere, and conversely, if sustainability is not achieved, it leads to exceeding the carrying capacity of this environment, thus hindering the ability to fulfill all environmental functions.

The course highlighted the sustainable development goals, including eradicating poverty and hunger, ensuring healthy lives, and access to essential services such as water, sustainable energy, sanitation, providing quality education, job opportunities, enhancing infrastructure, and creating communities capable of achieving sustainability through production and consumption to preserve the environment and protect the social and economic milieu.

The course also included a tree planting initiative around the central library and honoring the contributors and participants.