After the success of the previous editions, the annual appointment with the Sustainable Development Festival returns from 8 to 24 May 2023 al over Italy, online and abroad. The Festival once again takes place in the spring, as it did before the pandemic.

The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), which brings together over 320 organizations from the economic and social world, organizes the Festival together with its member organizations and with the support of Partners and Tutors, over a span of 17 days, as many as the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda. Every year, the Festival raises awareness of very large sections of the population on the issues of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) and the 2030 Agenda. With the involvement of hundreds of organizations throughout Italy, the network of Italian embassies and cultural institutes abroad, the active role played by the universities and the collaboration of the territories, the event reaches millions of people, confirming itself as a unique experience on the international scene.

In 2022 the Festival recorded excellent results:

• almost a thousand events organized in Italy and abroad, also thanks to the diplomatic network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI);
• three main events organized by ASviS on cross-cutting issues;
• 19 national events organized by the Alliance Working Groups;
• 8 publications written by experts from the Alliance and its Working Groups;
• 22 million people reached in live streaming;
• 4 million views;
• 84 million impressions for the hashtag #FestivalSviluppoSostenibile and the claim #STIAMOAGENDO;
• 22 million contacts obtained with the Festival spot “Mettilo in Agenda. Stiamo Agenda" broadcast on the Rai radio and TV networks, thanks to the Department of Information and Publishing of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

In 2022 the Festival, thanks to the collaboration with the MAECI, saw the organization of 53 events in 18 countries on all continents organized by the embassies and by Italian cultural institutes abroad, aimed at strengthening awareness of the urgency of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Here is the link to the best of video of the Festival 2022.

Furthermore, thanks to a collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Festival has been enriched with 48 events in 33 countries, on 5 continents organized by the offices of the diplomatic network and by the Italian cultural institutes abroad, contributing to strengthen awareness of the urgency of a transformation to relaunch and make all countries more sustainable. Here is the link to the “best of” the Festival. 

The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), which brings together over 300 organizations from the economic and social world, organizes the Festival together with its Members and with the support of Partners and Tutors, over a period of 17 days, as many as Sustainable Development Goals set out in the UN 2030 Agenda[1].

[1] In September 2015, 193 countries, including Italy, signed the 2030 Agenda, thus committing themselves to achieving, by 2030, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, in the English acronym). Since that moment, international organizations, national governments and local authorities, business and civil society associations are mobilizing all over the world to design and implement policies and strategies aimed at achieving the 17 Goals and 169 Targets connected to them.