• AlmedalenAZ: Concept Introduction

    30 April 2024

    10:00-11:00amMT

    Join us as we discuss the concept of Almedalen, how we plan to tackle three of Arizona’s biggest challenges, and how we can co-create the future of Arizona together!

    Register for zoom event

  • AlmedalenAZ 2025 Festival

    February 2025

    Tuesday: KintsugiAZ - Opening Night Celebration (Community Art Show, Poetry Slam and Food Drive)

    Wednesday : Focus on Food

    Thursday: Focus on Education

    Friday: Focus on Water

    Sign Up For Newsletter

Recent Events

UNESCO's Global LearningPlanet Festival: AlmedalenAZ Concept Introduction and Workshop

25 January 2024 8:00amMT (45min)

At the Learning Planet Festival, we brought global innovators into the conversation!

In this workshop, we went through a two-stage process: first, participants identified a second set of SDGs to act as mediating components for achieving our core three SDGs; second, we used the selected SDGs to identify action ideas and transformed them into themes that will inform the conversation at the in-person AlmedalenAZ event this November.

This process is an example of how and what we wish to accomplish at AlmedalenAZ, which participants will be able to put to future use.

Relevant Projects

Education

· State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne joined forces with the private sector and representatives from the governments of Switzerland, Taiwan, and the Navajo Nation to create the Arizona Education Economic Commission, a collaboration between education and industry to encourage the development of workforce and economic opportunities for Arizona’s students.

· Center For The Future Of Arizona’s Beat the Odds School Leadership Academy (BTO Academy) provides executive leadership training to current and aspiring school and district leaders across Arizona. Following the nationally recognized National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) curriculum, it draws on the strongest leadership development practices from education, business, and the military and is proven to impact student achievement for all learners. 

Water

· Phoenix announced in April 2023 that it would invest in an advanced water purification facility to use by 2030, to treat wastewater to the point of drinkability. 

· In November of 2022, the state of Arizona invested $40M in ASU to lead a multi-year initiative that helps ensure a regional thriving future with a secure future water supply. The Arizona Water Innovation Initiative expands the work ASU is already doing in hydrology, engineering, policy and management throughout Arizona and across the Southwest and scales those advancements to implement evidence-based solutions.


Food

· By 2050, the City of Phoenix plans to establish a sustainable, healthy, equitable, local food system by: 1) eliminating food deserts; 2) increasing urban agriculture; 3) establishing farmers markets in each of the city's urban villages; and 4) significantly reducing the rates of hunger, obesity, and diet-related disease.

· From 2022-2024, AZ Department of Education will pay $6.75M for 2.2M school meals.

· As part of Governor Doug Ducey’s Goal of Happy & Healthy Citizens, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) works to reduce food insecurity, diabetes and obesity. In conjunction with the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), the Governor has prioritized ensuring all Arizonans have access to healthy food.

Suggested Reading + Viewing + Listening