Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Team4Teams is a professional training agency to support managers and executives together with their team in government agencies, business services, education, healthcare and corporate settings.

Through its own activities, Team4Teams aims to contribute to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as endorsed in 2015 by 193 countries, all members of the United Nations.

The 17 SDGs are:

1. Countering all forms of poverty
2. No hunger, but sustainable agriculture and good nutrition
3. Good health and well-being
4. Good quality of education
5. Equal rights and opportunities for men and women
6. Clean water and sanitation and sustainable water use
7. Affordable renewable energy
8. Good jobs, sustainable economic growth and fair distribution of wealth
9. Sustainable industry, innovation and infrastructure
10. Less inequality within a country and between countries
11. Sustainable, safe and resilient cities and communities
12. Responsible consumption and production
13. Countering climate change
14. Sustainable use of oceans and seas
15. Protected ecosystems, forests and biodiversity
16. Peace, security and justice
17. Global cooperation to achieve goals

These goals are linked; those who contribute to good education thereby also support poverty reduction. Those who contribute to sustainable agriculture also support good health and well-being.

Team4Teams raises awareness that good cooperation is key to contributing to the sustainable development goals. Without a focus on stable cooperation, where taking responsibility contributes to joint progress, these goals are much more difficult - if not impossible - to achieve.

In a world where struggle and self-interest sometimes seem to win out over sustainable and balanced cooperation, people are also standing up to contribute to positive change. Team4Teams chooses to support these initiatives.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Sustainable corporate social responsibility helps achieve the SDGs.

Team4Teams chooses working methods that do not harm the environment:

• We do not use motorised means of transport for our team activities.
• We spend a lot and enjoy being outdoors in nature; nature is relaxing and healing.
• We separate waste meticulously and ensure responsible disposal.
• A location in nature where we stay is left cleaner than we found it.

Local orientation:

• When choosing team trainers and team coaches, the travel distance to the location where the team activity will be given is leading, in order to keep costs for the client and the climate as low as possible.

Anyone can participate.

• Participants with physical disabilities are engaged during group exercises. 
• The activities are active, sometimes sporty, and always tailored to the abilities of the group.

Organic food:

• Where we are asked to provide meals, we do so with (organisations that use) organic ingredients.

Team4Teams contributes professionally with its knowledge and expertise to:

• Support for Stichting Buitendoor and Camp Buitendoor in Veluwe, active in providing sustainable guidance to secondary schools.
• Training young adult summer camp staff from across Europe who provide children and young people with an unforgettable summer holiday.
• Innovating youth work by providing training for Scouting Netherlands.

The Scale of Collaboration - developed by mentors from Team4Teams - contributes insight and is a roadmap to substantially better contribute to organisational, social, cultural and climate improvements.