The project adheres to the mission of UNESCO as it wants to contribute to the spread of sustainable development programmes through the promotion of Sustainable energy use and production.
In particular it corresponds to the UNESCO Global Priority Africa because some African Partners of the project will be strongly involved in the design of sustainable energy structures specifically based on the features of their countries
Regarding the medium-term strategies for 2014-2021, the project addresses both the Strategic Objective 4 (SO4), aiming at strengthening science, technology and innovation systems and policies, and also the Strategic Objective 5 (SO5), that promotes international scientific cooperation on critical challenges to sustainable development.
In fact, SO4 confirms the pivotal importance of science, technology and innovation (STI) for sustainable development in all its dimensions, including the environmental one. Likewise, the project addresses the integration of science and engineering approaches for sustainable development, which is one of the main topics of SO5, under the name of “sustainability science”.