Our SDG commitment
Next Step is registered as an SDG Acceleration Action with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. We report against five goals and publish the indicators every year.
Education, Opportunity and Sustainability are the three commitments the fair is measured against, not only what it says.
Verification is public. The entry lists our commitments, indicators and reporting period.
Verify on Act4SDGs ↗Free entry, school shuttles from 12 districts, and Zankoline application desks staffed for all three days. Digital literacy and AI sessions run in the workshop hall.
Career guidance and CV clinics are delivered by employers in the room, with vocational pathways given equal floor space to academic ones.
Registration, badging and check-in run digitally end to end. Partners demonstrate applied AI and engineering work students can enter.
Digital-first materials, reusable signage substrates, and a published carbon footprint statement for each edition.
The fair is convened with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research alongside universities, NGOs and private sector partners.
Green event practices
- Digital-first materials: agenda, badges and directories are all on phones.
- Reusable signage substrates, no edition-dated print on anything reusable.
- Waste separation at every hall entrance, no single-use plastics at catering.
- Published carbon footprint statement for each edition.