Regional aspects from South Africa and Brazil (DiTTS)

DiTTS is a collaborative project from 2022 to 2025 between Unisa (a dedicated work team from the Department of Geography), the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW, Germany) and the University of Passo Fundo (UPF, Brazil), and it is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). DiTTS aims to build a partnership between Unisa, UPF and HAW Hamburg through the joint development of teaching support materials for the implementation of nine of the SDGs - 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17 and by conducting associated research. Apart from English, these teaching support materials are also made available in Portuguese and two local South African languages, namely isiZulu and Sesotho sa Leboa. In this way local relevance and the potential use of the materials in Global South contexts is enhanced.

The teaching support materials materials majorly consist of a teacher’s manual, a PowerPoint presentation and one or more story maps for each of the nine SDGs covered by the DiTTS project. All the manuals follow the same structure, and have sections covering an introduction, definition of the SDG, crises impacting on the SDG, regional progress with the achievement of the SDG, selected case studies, examples of exercises and assessments, and a conclusion. Enrichment is achieved through the inclusion of guidance through specified outcomes, figures, tables, maps, graphs, supplementary readings, extensive reference lists, and an easy to follow format and structure. All materials are free to be used as needed and made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.